Modern developments allow you to make the walls embossed and colorful with the help of "modified" plaster. Depending on the desired effect, the coating can be Venetian, textured or structured. Venetian is expensive, not used so often, especially, the code needs to trim a large area.
How to make decorative plaster yourself: structural coating
The structural coating consists of heterogeneous granular components. You can clearly see the granules in the form of quartz, small stones, wood fibers. The basis is mineral components with aqueous solvents. In the finished form, the surface may look like this:
How to make decorative plaster of this type? Very simple.
- Start by cleaning the surface and priming it. Minor errors are allowed, since the relief of the future coating will hide the non-serious errors. It is desirable to tint the soil in a tone of decorative finish, it dries 12 hours.
- In this case, marble plaster will be applied. Read the instructions for preparing the solution. On average, 20 liters of the base takes 1 liter of water. Mix the consistency at low speed.
- The decorative layer is applied by a trowel-stainless steel, a trowel will also be required. It is very easy to apply a solution - with semicircular movements. The thickness should be the same and insignificant - about 1 mm. The mixture is applied to the wall at an angle of 15 degrees, the alignment is made at an angle of 5 degrees. Consumption is about 3 kg / m & sup2.
- For complete drying, you need a day, then the color will show up. It is recommended to apply a protective layer. )
- For decoration of corners and joints, a painting tape is required. We glue it along the necessary contour, apply the solution, after 20 minutes remove the tape.
How to make a textured decorative plaster?
The texture layer does not resemble small granules, it is more embossed. Usually this is an imitation of compressed paper, rain, tarnished or chopped stone. Lime flour and polymers keep the shape well. The texture can be very different:
- You can apply thick filler or finished acrylic mastic. You need a spatula, texture roller, decorative comb.
- We put the mixture on the wall in a couple of millimeters. Depending on the desired pattern, you can use an ordinary spatula, moving chaotically, but evenly.
- You can apply a decorative roller and then smooth out the excess.
- The roller can have a very different pattern, for example, this:
Also you can use improvised means in the form of strong kitchen napkins, packages.
If you want to know how to make decorative facade plaster , we will note that you will need more durable materials in the operational plan.
