Create a lightly textured wall with special paint.
A lightly textured wall creates a subtle and elegant touch to an interior room. Although creating texture with joint compound or similar materials is one option for texturing a wall, you can simplify the process if you use texture paint. You'll get light paint texture on the wall as you apply the product with the paint roller. Applying texture paint is as simple as applying standard paint to a wall.
Instructions
1. Apply painter's tape along the ceiling, baseboard and adjacent walls to prevent paint from spreading onto these surfaces. Apply painter's tape around window and doorway trim also, and mask anything else in the area that you don't want texture paint on.
2. Place the drop cloth over the floor below the wall.
3. Load the trim brush with latex primer and apply primer around the perimeter of the wall to "cut in" this area and along the edges of the tape you placed in Step 1. Cut in 2 to 4 inches deep with the primer.
4. Pour primer into the paint tray and load the paint roller. Apply primer to the wall in a thin coat to cover it completely. Allow the primer to dry for the time recommended on the product label.
5. Stir the texture paint well. (Be sure to stir it often while you apply it to distribute the texture particles evenly throughout the paint.) Load the trim brush with texture paint and cut in the perimeter of the wall in the same fashion that you cut in the primer.
6. Fit the looped roller cover onto the paint roller to apply the texture paint.
7. Pour texture paint into the paint tray. Load the paint roller with paint and apply it in the same fashion that you applied the primer. Allow the texture paint to dry for the time recommended on the product label.
8. Apply a second coat of texture paint after the first coat dries, using the same application technique. Allow the second coat to dry for at least 24 hours.
9. Load the trim brush with topcoat paint and cut in the perimeter of the wall using the same application technique as earlier.
10. Pour the topcoat into the paint tray and load the paint roller with the standard roller cover. Apply the topcoat paint over the wall in a thin and even layer using the same application technique as before. Allow the topcoat paint to dry for the time recommended on the product label.
11. Remove the painter's tape.
