Unique Wall Painting Techniques for the DIY Homeowner

By The Editors Of 'Do It Yourself' Magazine
Published on January 4, 2012
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If your kitchen walls leave you feeling blah and your bedroom could use a serious decor upgrade, consider looking into funky wall painting techniques as a new DIY home design project that won't cost you a fortune. In “100+ Paint Projects,” the editors of “Do It Yourself” magazine have collected several unique painting techniques that you can adapt to your home. Whether you’re looking for some wall-painting ideas or are trying to add a fresh life to furniture, you can save money and create a one-of-a-kind look with many of the ideas in this guidebook. 
If your kitchen walls leave you feeling blah and your bedroom could use a serious decor upgrade, consider looking into funky wall painting techniques as a new DIY home design project that won't cost you a fortune. In “100+ Paint Projects,” the editors of “Do It Yourself” magazine have collected several unique painting techniques that you can adapt to your home. Whether you’re looking for some wall-painting ideas or are trying to add a fresh life to furniture, you can save money and create a one-of-a-kind look with many of the ideas in this guidebook. 
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Using cabbages from your fridge, you can add a romantic floral accent to your kitchen with this cheap and easy wall-painting technique.
Using cabbages from your fridge, you can add a romantic floral accent to your kitchen with this cheap and easy wall-painting technique.
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Use a wood-grain tool to create this faux wood-grain finish for a fun, tone-on-tone wall painting idea.
Use a wood-grain tool to create this faux wood-grain finish for a fun, tone-on-tone wall painting idea.
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The moisture in cabbages will lend a natural watercolor look to the stamps you create in this wall painting technique.
The moisture in cabbages will lend a natural watercolor look to the stamps you create in this wall painting technique.
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To use a cabbage as a wall stamp, roll the paint color of your choice onto a freshly cut edge of a head of cabbage.
To use a cabbage as a wall stamp, roll the paint color of your choice onto a freshly cut edge of a head of cabbage.
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This wood-grain tool is all you need for one of the recommended painting techniques for walls found in this article.
This wood-grain tool is all you need for one of the recommended painting techniques for walls found in this article.

Painting walls isn’t usually at the top of homeowners’ lists of exciting weekend activities. The wall-painting techniques in this excerpt, taken from 100+ Paint Projects (John Wiley & Sons, 2011) by the experts at Do It Yourself magazine, will inspire any DIY homeowner to reconsider painting walls as a worthwhile endeavor. This excerpt is taken from Chapter 3, “Paint Projects for Walls and Floors.”

From the Fridge 

Who knew veggies could be so much fun? In this design, you learn how to treat a section of wall with flower motifs created with heads of cabbage (see a finished application in the Image Gallery). Use a range of blues and keep things interesting by working with cabbages of various sizes. The natural moisture from the cabbage will add a watercolor look to this wall-painting technique. For a crisper image, roll with paint after each impression.

You’ll Need:

Latex paint in light and medium blue

Paint roller and tray

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