
Choosing your Paint Effect
Please note that the textures shown here are at pictures at low resolution and cannot show the real effects of the techniques.
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Clouding Clouding is a free form finish creating clouds of translucent colour. This technique gives a rustic textured appearance that is both soft and gentle. It is perfect fo uneven walls because it naturally tends to hide imperfections. |
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Colourwashing Colourwashing gives a mottled, hazy look to a wall. Once again, it can give a pleasing ´countrified feel to a room, and depending on your choice of colour combinations you can make an unlit or north facing room look bright and spacious, whilst making a sunny room mor tranquil. |
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Ragging Ragging is a stylish and imaginative way of producing a soft, yet highly patterned design. It can add drama an interest to rooms with plain carpets or fabric and cover up poor wall textures. |
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Rag Rolling Rag Rolling is a bolder patterned effect than Ragging. Use it perhaps to highlight a particular section of a room or to create rather dramatic effect throughour the whole of the room. This dramatic effect looks particularly superb in plain rooms. |
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Sponging Sponging is the best known and most versatile paint effect, giving an all over impression of random patterns of colour. It can drate a deliate gentle feel when a muted combination of colours are used. |
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Stencilling Stencilling is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways of adding originality and detail to a home. |