The 3 Most Popular Interior Painting Techniques

Some common interior painting techniques to make your wall really stand out are glazing, sponging, ragging, and antiquing

1) Glazing - this faux technique is one of the most popular faux interior painting techniques used by painters. In essence, it involves  covering a wall with a layer of paint thinned with a medium making it partially transparent. By so doing, this gives a slight change to the color or surface of the paint giving it a more subtle look. Doing it correctly takes a bit of practice. It involves first laying down a base paint coat of your primary color.

You, then, follow that by overlaying it with one or more glaze coats. And finally, after applying the glaze, you remove portions of it so that it blends into the base coat - giving it an almost seamless look. This last part is the biggest challenge and the part that will take you the longest to master. But almost just as important is learning what color combinations of glaze and paint base coats are compatible with each other.

2) Sponging - probably the second most used interior painting techniques of painters. It's also relatively easy and hard to really make a mistake. The benefit is that it gives a new look to a painted wall by adding texture and interest to it. To do it right, you need at least a couple of colors - preferably close in shade and tone to each other.

Use the primary color as your base coat. This will normally, but not necessarily, be the darker of the two colors. The "sponging color" is the second color which you will put on top of the base color with a sponge. The type of sponge used by most professionals is a natural sea sponge which you can get for under $15 at your local hardware store or home center.

3) Ragging - one of the faux interior painting techniques with a difficulty level that falls somewhere between glazing and sponging. Ragging provides warmth and texture to a wall. Before using the technique, make sure that the wall is clean and smooth.

For best results, it's best to apply one or two primer coats to the wall. Similar to glazing, you're working with two compatible color shades of paint. When sponging, most people will use the lighter paint color as the base coat. Using a roller apply the base coat over the primer. Then mix your glaze coat. Apply the glaze coat to the wall with a brush. Before it dries, take a clean lint-free rag and starting at the top.

As you  pat the glazed wall surface with the rag you'll be removing portions of the glaze and in the process creating a nice pattern on the wall. The entire process should be done in sections so that the glaze doesn't have a chance to dry before you have a chance to create your pattern. As the rag becomes saturated with the glaze, replace the rag with a new one.

Although the above three faux interior painting techniques are among the most popular used by most homeowners, there are other more complicated ones as well such as antiquing, mural painting, and the like. Whichever ones you use, however, always make the walls and ceilings more interesting than just a painted bare wall.

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