Techniques For Painting Bathroom Walls

To get started clean the bathroom walls and cover anything that you don t want to paint with plastic or drop cloths.

Techniques for painting bathroom walls.

Then paint the ceiling and trim first using a roller for most of the ceiling and a paint brush for the edges and trim. If you have short ceilings and want to make your small bathroom seem taller paint vertical stripes on the small bathroom walls. You ll start by coating your walls with a satin base paint then use a large brush to paint over it with a nice glaze. This kind of painting style is very normally seen in small rooms like bathrooms where the soft textures can help in masking the dimensions of the room and making it feel little less cramped and appear spacious.

This painting technique involves rolling a rag up and down wet painted walls to add a unique depth and texture. With the humid conditions in a bathroom it s common for the walls to show signs of wear and tear over the years. As we just went over paint colors help guide the eye throughout small bath. Bathrooms are wet places and water will eventually get on your paint no matter how hard you try to avoid this.

Feather out paint where you can t keep a wet edge you can t cover large areas like ceilings extra tall walls or stairwells in single continuous strokes so the best way to minimize lap marks on these areas is to feather out the paint along the edges that you can t keep wet. And it also happens to be fairly easy to apply. Color washing is a beautiful paint technique that adds texture and depth to a space. Next apply a paint primer to the walls if you re making a drastic color change or patching any holes.

With vertical stripes the human eye is guided up and around the room. Use the best paint for the bathroom. A textured paint finish is ideal because it can help camouflage damaged or stained. Some paint manufacturers sell what they call bathroom paint.