Tools and Materials Needed
- Chocolate brown, suede brown and cream latex paint, satin
- silicone sand
- Small and large rollers and trays
- Measuring tape
- Pencil, spirit level, chalk line
- 1" low tack painter's tape
Several paint companies manufacture textured paint designed to create a more tactile surface than traditional paint. You can make your own by adding an 8 oz bag of silicone sand to a gallon of latex paint. Mix extremely well and apply with a roller or brush. The effect looks and feels like soft suede.
Getting Started
- Apply two coats of the dark brown basecoat and let dry for four hours, or overnight.
- Measure and mark off a grid that fits your wall measurements. Use the chalk line first, and then check your work with the spirit level. Our thin rectangles are 14" x 25" and the larger boxes are 25" x 50".
- Cover the chalk lines with the one-inch low-tack tape. Press the edges down firmly.
- Fill in the long thin rectangles with the cream paint. Let dry.
- Fill in the large boxes with suede paint. Let dry.
- Remove the tape carefully, revealing the dark basecoat as the thin stripes.
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