I came home from work the other day to find my wife had pulled down the wallpaper of an admittedly rather tasteless 'feature wall' in the bedroom.
My initial reaction was one of mild despair at the prospect of another job to do this weekend, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the exposed wall finish was very good and looked ready to paint.
Cue a quick trip to "Bunnings" which has replaced our local Homebase, though it seems in name mostly - all looks pretty much as it was before although they've added a kids play area and some balloons at the door.
Rollers in hand we slapped on a coat of white emulsion as a base coat but were horrified to see a pulp-like texture appearing a few minutes after applying the paint. I'm not sure if it is wallpaper adhesive or some lining paper residue.
In a moment of panic we scraped off the half dry paint-pulp. This seemed to work quite well and when it dried we set about a new coat of emulsion.
Unfortunately after this dried it it still looked pretty bad. I tried smoothing the worst areas with some filler, but this turned out to be another terrible idea. Now we have contrasting areas of unnaturally smooth surface next to the rough patches.
Before I try another of my 'clever ideas', I think I should turn this one over to you lot for some pointers.
The wall finish is currently not good enough to take the posh paint we bought, but not bad enough to consider getting a plasterer in to fix it.
Pictures attached. Thanks very much for any scraps of wisdom you can sympathetically throw our way.
Thanks!
My initial reaction was one of mild despair at the prospect of another job to do this weekend, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the exposed wall finish was very good and looked ready to paint.
Cue a quick trip to "Bunnings" which has replaced our local Homebase, though it seems in name mostly - all looks pretty much as it was before although they've added a kids play area and some balloons at the door.
Rollers in hand we slapped on a coat of white emulsion as a base coat but were horrified to see a pulp-like texture appearing a few minutes after applying the paint. I'm not sure if it is wallpaper adhesive or some lining paper residue.
In a moment of panic we scraped off the half dry paint-pulp. This seemed to work quite well and when it dried we set about a new coat of emulsion.
Unfortunately after this dried it it still looked pretty bad. I tried smoothing the worst areas with some filler, but this turned out to be another terrible idea. Now we have contrasting areas of unnaturally smooth surface next to the rough patches.
Before I try another of my 'clever ideas', I think I should turn this one over to you lot for some pointers.
The wall finish is currently not good enough to take the posh paint we bought, but not bad enough to consider getting a plasterer in to fix it.
Pictures attached. Thanks very much for any scraps of wisdom you can sympathetically throw our way.
Thanks!