Spackling is done. Step 1. Prime the walls.
Step 2. I painted this room a light cream color
Step 3. Last, I did a faux texture on the wall using a rolled rag technique and a burgundy colored glaze.
As you can see, his room had alot of dinks and bumps in the walls and needed a lot of spackling repairs.
After I was done with the spackling, I primed the walls
The faux texture i did on this wall is called elephant skin. First, I crinkled pieces of tissue paper into balls. Then I would open up a piece, and using a paint roller, paint wallpaper paste onto the wall. I then would lay the piece of tissue paper on the wall and "paint" another layer of wallpaper paste over that. This was continued untill the whole wall was covered. After it was dry, I painted over all the tissue paper/wallpaper paste with a terracotta colored semi gloss paint making a washable, finished effect. The only thing I regret, is the edges on the tissue paper should have been torn so they would blend in better. If you look carefully, you can see lines (the edges of the tissue paper) on the wall.
I want this room to have kind of a safari/ jungle look. I hope to trim the doorway and windows with an old weathered barn siding.
Spackling and Priming needs done.
If you look at the wall to the right, you can see where there was spackling done. This used to be Mom and Dad's bedroom and that was a doorway to a short hall between the living room and the bathroom. When Joseph remodeled our house, he took out the door and put drywall in. That hallway is now a half bath.
I painted these walls blue because I wanted it to be a calm place for him to go, but not dreary, like it used to be.
To make it more cheery I sponged clouds onto the walls.
Dad helped me put a smaller ceiling fan in.
And we also put down Flexitec linoleum to make the floors more padded, and cover up that nasty particle board.
