How to apply patterns on the wall

In an effort to make your home even more cozy and unique, many leaf through the piles of catalogs with samples of wallpaper, study a variety of plastering techniques, try to experiment with textures. At the same time, sooner or later, the thought flashes: do not try decorative patterns on the wall?

Thought gradually fits in the mind, settles, and now you are catching yourself on the fact that you are looking for interesting options. Studying of other people's experience shows that most people use stencils for drawing drawings.

Templates do not require you to have artistic skills. The patterns on the walls in the apartment appear quite quickly, and the process itself brings pleasure. Do you remember how in your childhood you cut out stencils from paper and colored them?

Factory products are made of a polyethylene sheet, on which the cuts are made. Ready workpiece securely attached to the wall, pressed, and then using a spray gun, roller, sponge or brush paint a paint layer. After that, the template is neatly removed. And voila! I can not recognize a familiar room.

But if you do not like other people's ideas, many workshops will gladly help you realize your original ideas. This will create really unique stencils, so that with their help apply patterns on the wall.

And you can completely take matters into your own hands and make a stencil yourself. It will take a dense, better oilskin material, but paper that is either impregnated with linseed oil, or pasted with a waterproof film (and scotch tape will also fit) will do. The contours of the future drawing are applied to the material. If you are not too confident in the pencil, then print the workpiece on the printer. In the end, you need to work with a paint knife. They slowly cut through the ornament.

Patterns on the wall can be applied using traditional straight stencils, or you can use reverse templates. What are they? This is familiar to us sheet materials, but they do not have carved contours of the future decor. Instead, the sheets themselves are cut out in the form of a given pattern. The workpiece is pressed against the surface, and the area around it is covered with paint.

There is another, very non-standard way to bring patterns to the wall. But to use it, you have to get a projector. Remember that for small rooms this option is not suitable. The principle of decoration here is based on the translation of the selected pattern onto the surface with the help of a projector. Previously, the sketch is transferred to a special acetate film with a thin felt-tip pen, paying special attention to the contours of the drawing. Next, the film hits the projector, which shows an enlarged image on the wall at the angle you want. Now you take the brush and draw the drawing, only do this not on paper, but on the wall. In the final, you will only need to "fill" the picture.

Choosing patterns on the wall, try to imagine the final result. Will not the drawing further irritate you, will not it "eat" the space of the room, will not it be too flashy. In some cases it is better to do with a small elegant ornament or a modest curb.