Advantages of painting decorative plaster
First, staining the plaster allows you to create a unique design image of your facade or interior. Choosing the color and paint, you can recreate any interiors, worthy of admiration. It is not necessary to do just one tone. Also, several tones can be successfully blended, properly selected and combined with each other.
Secondly, this paint provides some protective functions. It protects the surface from excessive exposure to moisture, ultraviolet radiation, temperature changes. And white or any light paint prevents excessive heating of the wall surface in summer days. This will help significantly save on air conditioning of the premises.
Which paint should I choose?
Decorative plaster for painting can be white and colored. White - involves further painting. Color - is purchased in ready-made form and applied to the base. Also, in addition to painting, it is possible to add a tinting element to the plaster mixture.
That is, initially applied a colored stucco compound. For this, the color is purchased and added during the dilution of the mixture. "Please note, the color must be selected in the same place where the plaster base was bought. Plus, when choosing it is worth considering the fact that drying out the color of the surface will become lighter on tone. Therefore, choose the right tone! ".
painting technology After the tones and the appropriate design were chosen, the question arises - how to paint decorative plaster?
For the beginning preparation of walls under decorative plaster is carried out. This stage involves cleaning the surface, preparing the mixture, leveling the base and some other procedures. After this, you can choose two methods of painting - the application of color in the plaster mixture or the coating of the paint with the finished plaster base.
The coatings use both front and interior paints. It is also possible to apply the paint parts on individual surface elements or, creating a halftone. In order for the entire procedure to be successful, it is important to use some tools.
- Roller and brush tray for easier scooping.
- Kapron cord( for buckets with paint to prevent splashing of the material).
- A plate with spikes located at the edge of the tray.
Getting started, you need to protect the floor, furniture, jambs and windows from drops of paint. Therefore, flooring a special material, for example, polyethylene. When decorating facades, such protection measures are not needed, but the path and windows near the wall are still covered.
The simplest method of painting plaster is "in one pass", which implies full painting of the entire surface, including protrusions and grooves. The procedure is carried out only once and in one tone. You can also combine different colors and achieve a more complex effect.
To do this, a basic light layer is first applied using a roller. After it has completely dried out, some relief protrusions are covered with a darker paint. This technique is called "dry brush method" and allows to achieve a more voluminous surface.
Instead of a dark paint in some cases, use decorative elements( metallic - silver, gold, bronze).They are applied with a special mitten or with a dry brush.
There are special videos on many online resources that describe the process. Painting decorative plaster, the video of which is represented on the portals, will help you create unusually beautiful and refined interiors.