How can you achieve a Santa Fe style stucco effect?

[LETMO]

I'd like to create a wall effect like this:

http://www.visionsdesigngroup.com/portfolio/seatingarea/sa17.htm

or this:

http://www.visionsdesigngroup.com/portfolio/livingroom/lr30.htm

Any ideas?

TIA

Martin

 

[masona]

Try posting this in the Painting section, we have some good pro painter over there

I have done the same as the picture, emulsion the wall background colour of your choice then let it dry, then another difference colour painted over the rag roll with a cloth slightly damp, wait from the pro painter for a better answer!

 

[gcol]

This is what you're after.
http://www.whitmanwallpaper.com/fauxfinishing/RAGpage1234.pdf

 

[Diyisfun]

I did this effect about 10 years ago (green) it looked good I was V pleased with it. (All materials from B+Q)
In my new house I wanted to do the same again in the dinning room, but it appears not to be fashionable anymore & I couldn’t buy the materials.

 

[gcol]

http://www.decoratingdirect.co.uk/Decorative_Effects/Scumbles_and_Glazes/

 

[LETMO]

Try posting this in the Painting section, we have some good pro painter over there

Sorry about that; thanks for all the advice. Would it work with just regular paint or should I wait until I'm in the UK to pick up some 'scumble' (what a great word, never heard it before)

 

[gcol]

It's not really my thing (I've only done it the once before). But I think you paint on a regular base coat of emulsion then give it a coat of a special effects glaze (tinted to your colour). Paint a small area then distress it with a rag to get the desired finish, the move onto the next area.

 

[Zampa]

The picture you posted up looks to me very much like colour washing...which is quiet easy and good fun to do after a bit of practice.

Roughly...give the walls a base colour...then using a water based scumble glaze mix...colour wash over the top...use a roller sleeve in a randon pattern manner...in different directions..

You will have to work fast though...and dont attempt it if its too warm...the edge will dry off to fast..try using oil based undercaot as a base

 

[spice]

I did quite a bit of it in the 80s and 90s, when it was all the craze, and I even did it with ordinary emulsion, and it was okay.

You can use a sea sponge, or a J cloth, and I have used a black bin liner, that had quite an unusual effect, but still did the job okay.

I did what Zampa said, but some times didnt use the glaze, just used a different colour emulsion on top.

 

[Zampa]

I did quite a bit of it in the 80s and 90s, when it was all the craze, and I even did it with ordinary emulsion, and it was okay.

You can use a sea sponge, or a J cloth, and I have used a black bin liner, that had quite an unusual effect, but still did the job okay.

I did what Zampa said, but some times didnt use the glaze, just used a different colour emulsion on top.

Ive done it with emul before..its ok in some situations...like if you have a good base coat that isnt too permeable and the weather is coldish..but if its warm or high up in a room where all the heat is you can lose the edge really quick...did it once on a ceiling in a shop and it ended up looking like crazy paving..

Still...the customer loved it so i scraped by that time

 

[biffvernon]

Best to start off with a lime plaster or even a clay or earth plaseter. Then colour with distemper.

 

[Zampa]

Best to start off with a lime plaster or even a clay or earth plaseter. Then colour with distemper.

You do get a very authentic effect by using those..but they arnt the most practical of paints to have on the wall what with the dust that coems off when you brush against it