How to paint wallpaper?

Wallpaper for painting allows you to embody the most daring design fantasies. They can be painted in any color, depicted on them a complex graphic pattern and combined with other types of wallpaper. To paper was painted evenly, and the work itself did not take much time, you need to carefully study the instructions on how to paint wallpapers.

Important points

First, let's define some aspects of work:

1. The choice of wallpaper . If you decide to use paper as a basis for paint, then you need to decide what kind of wallpaper you can paint. The best wallpapers are foamed vinyl or non-woven fabric. They should not have silkscreen and bright drawings, as they will appear under the paint. Can I paint paper wallpapers? Only if it is a two- or three-layer compacted paper.
2. What color paint wallpaper? From oil paints and alkyd enamels it is better to refuse, as they break the microclimate in the apartment and smooth out the relief of the canvas, which was pasted for the sake of its creation. Flizeline wallpaper is better to paint with water-dispersion paint. To give moisture resistance, use latex or interior paint. To accurately transfer the tone, use the machine collation.
3. Roller selection . The best result is obtained when working with a long-shaft platen. It is he who paints beautifully the relief pattern and takes it to the most remote places. A short nap applies paint only on the "top" of the picture, and a roller made of foam rubber creates air bubbles in the paint. These rollers are best to remove excess paint from the wallpaper.

We paint the wallpaper with our own hands

Experts advise to paint one by one on each wall. So the color will be even and without a divorce. First you need to apply paint stripes 100 mm wide around the perimeter of the wall (floor, ceiling, corners of the walls). Apply the strips in parts, adhering to the "wet edge" rule, that is, apply a new paint partially covering the already applied wet layer. So you avoid interlacing and unevenness in color.

After all hard-to-reach places are painted, immediately begin painting the entire wall. Paint from the top down, constantly dyeing the already applied layer.

Do not stop until one side of the wall is finished, because you can not let the paint dry out! After painting the walls, proceed to the ceiling.

To ensure that the paint does not dry up on the edges of the stripes, experienced painters use a simple technique. 30 minutes prior to the beginning of work they bring into the room a basin with hot water and tightly close the windows and doors. Thus, the humidity of the air is artificially increased, which makes it possible to apply the paint in any sequence. At the end of work, the basin is taken out and the room is ventilated. Humidity decreases and the paint dries.