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I want to add texture to my dining room walls.
October 18th, 2006
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Full question:
I want to add texture to my dining room walls. It is a huge room with a 14ft dining room table we built and a full wall faux stone hearth. It is medieval/ renaissance. The drywall was done poorly and paint can’t seem to cover the bad job and I cant afford to rip all the walls out. I saw this on trading spaces (joint compound in stencils). The walls are hunter green so I thought making the joint compound same color and drybrushing gold over it??? How long to dry? Does it create enough texture?? Does it work well on big stencils? Any info would be appreciated.
My answer:
Yes, I have done this. It takes about the same time to dry as regular painting does. “Enough” texture is subjective, but it definitely covers the wall problems you describe. The size of the stencil doesn’t matter as long as you secure the stencil to the wall so no compound leaks underneath. I think you’ll like this.
Your Frugal Decorating Diva,
Nancy
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