How best to paint designs on wall for nursery? Hi, I will be working on my baby's nursery. I will be repainting...
Hi,
I will be working on my baby's nursery. I will be repainting the whole room and also want to tag on some butterfly sillhoutte designs on the walls. The room is green with the sillhouttes surrounded by darker green.
Option 1:
Should I paint first and after use a stencil over to paint the designs onto the wall? I would prefer to avoid this if possible.
Option 2:
Since it is a sillhoutte, can I paint a patch of the wall a dark green (for the butterflies) and then after that once it is dry, place my butterfly design pattern (that is on paper/thin cardboard) higher than the painted area and afterwards paint over with the lighter green that is to say to cover the whole wall? WIll that work? I am in recent times afraid the colour may run?
Please help?
Answers: Sit and sketch printed, look at coloring books and childrens books. Get a plan.
Check the hardward stores and paint stores for "oops" paint. Ones they have mixed for other relatives and the color was little sour and you can pick them up for pennies on the dollar.
Call all your friends to come over within old clothes and bring cheep brushes.
Take some chalk and draw your design on the wall and RELAX DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN PERFECT.
Scrub within some ground and some sky and then stir butterfly crazy. Don't stencil them on, just clutch a brush and draw and paint. Be loose and free and expressive. One person can do ground, one sky, one trees and everybody else does the fowers and butterflies. Sounds fun, retrieve me a space I'm coming over to help.
Absolutely the first likelihood is your best. Remember, it can be extremely difficult to paint a light color over a dark one and achieve a uniform look. That's what you'd be setting yourself up to do near your second option. It would be more work than it's worth. *Much* easier to put your appliqu¨¦ on over the foundation color.