Decorative plaster with own hands

Decorative plaster - a modern finishing material that can decorate the interior of the room, hide all the unevenness of the walls and protect them from harmful influences. With it, you can create original effects on the wall.

To make the texture used plastering blades, rollers, stamps. Such walls can mimic the crushed paper, wood, stone. The wave pattern is created by the zigzag movements of the spatula on the wet surface of the material. The result is a pattern that resembles a fairy-tale flower, painted in frost on glass - the same beautiful and unrepeatable. To create it is important to choose the right paint. The application of decorative plaster on the walls is easy to make by oneself, for this it is necessary to master the necessary technique.

How to apply decorative plaster with your hands?

For work you will need:

• priming;
• brushes;
• plaster finish and starting;
• water;
• mortar bucket;
• spatulas of different sizes;
• plastic trowel;
• an ironing board;
• paint;
• silver and transparent lacquer;
• roller.

Now we can start work.

1. Before the beginning of the finishing of the walls with decorative plaster with their hands, the surface of the walls is leveled and primed. Allow time for the primer to dry. This allows plaster not to dry out on the surface so quickly that the wizard has time to create a pattern, and also improves the adhesion of the material to the wall.
2. In the bucket, regular plasters are mixed in equal proportions - start and finish with water. The solution is prepared by calculating one square meter of surface per batch.
3. The plaster is applied to the wall with a spatula and a wide ironing brush with a layer of 2-3 mm. It is necessary to compact the solution to the wall so that no cracks appear. The casings on the doors, the windows and the ceiling cornices are covered with a paint tape.
4. On a flat surface plastic trowel is an inverse pattern wavy movements on a plastic solution. Do this quickly, so that the plaster layer does not dry out. After drawing the picture on the entire wall, it should be left to dry for two days.
5. After drying, sharp edges on the surface can be carefully removed with a spatula, and walk along it in a circular motion with a grater with fine sandpaper to give smoothness.
6. After removing dust, the surface is again treated with a primer using a roller.
7. The surface of the wall is evenly covered with the desired color with the help of paint and roller. The paint should be left for two hours to dry.
8. Gently without effort rolls a silver lacquer, it gives the wall the effect of a pearl luster. It should be applied only on the top of the texture pattern, so as not to fill the indentations.
9. Protect the resulting surface and give it the original look will help the lacquer. It is diluted 30% with water so that the coating structure on the wall does not form a crust. Glitter is added to the material. The varnish is applied to the surface of the wall with a foam roller.
10. It turns out a brilliant decorative surface on the wall.

Each picture on the wall is exclusive, because it is impossible to repeat it. Such a coating is resistant to various kinds of influences, it is very difficult to spoil it, and it is easy to take care of. If it gets dirty, you just need to wash the area.

Decorative plaster is an attractive alternative to traditional wall coverings. The simplicity of the finish and the effectiveness of the resulting result make it an excellent choice for wall finishing.