KITCHEN MAKEOVER II
Michael Holigan: Last week we showed you how to create this stunning broken tile backsplash. Today our kitchen makeover continues with some creative ways to wake up your walls. MJ Design expert, Heather Mason, shows us easy do-it-yourself painting techniques to get rid of the bare wall blahs. Best of all, it's less expensive than wallpaper. For ragging on we're using a flat latex wall paint from Sherwin Williams called irish cream. Very nice color to it. We're going to mix it with glaze. One part paint to four parts glaze. The glaze will give us some time to actually work with it. Won't dry out as fast.
Heather Mason: You don't have to use a flat paint. You can use a satin also. You can even mix acrylics with glaze. We're using the ragging on method and we're just using regular old dishcloths here. We're kind of wadding them up and making them like a rosette type pattern. Now you want to get enough glaze on there that it'll go on your wall, but you don't want to soak the whole rag with it. And dab it off always before you go onto the wall with your heavy color 'cause it's always easier to add more paint. And I'm just going to bounce a few main areas switching my pattern around and let the paint get lighter and lighter. And then I'll come back and add some more and it goes very quickly.
MH: It helps if you stand back every once in a while and look at the entire wall to make sure your paint pattern is consistent. Now we're ready to rag white latex over our first color.
HM: Now with the white we're going to just bounce it all over the whole entire pattern and you can really inundate it with color 'cause we're really going to mute this down and give the Irish Cream a little bit more dimension.
MH: We'll add even more dimension with a bold multi-stripe wanes coating. Careful preparation is key to pulling this off.
HM: All we're going to do is measure off...we'll start with taupe here and then one inch, and then one and a half and then we're doing one and a half white and it stays blank. One for black. One for white.
MH: One and a half for white.
HM: And then taupe.
MH: We also mark the bottom of the wall to make sure our strips will be straight.
HM: What we're going to use is we're using stencil tape, very low tack because of the torn paper. It will pull up very easy. And then I'll let you just stripe it and then we're using a level as we go down to make sure it's straight. Tack it down just real quick. I want it to be pretty perfect.
MH: We actually use three pieces of tape to mark off our wide stripe. After the wall is taped off we press the tape down with the handle of our rollers so paint won't seep underneath the tape. Now we're ready to begin.
HM: We're using a color called sandstorm. These are just little foam rollers, so you don't need a whole lot of paint. So just get some on there and really wipe it off. Be careful because initially when you first start it will kind of splatter. Just get a good coat on there.
MH: It's always a good idea to pull off the tape before the paint dries. That way you don't peel any paint loose.
HM: Some pretty nice stripes.
MH: Next we repeat the process to create our black stripes. Some of your paint may peel off when you remove the stencil tape, but don't worry, you can touch it up with a foam brush or with these convenient paint pens.
HM: These are woodcraft pens. They're not just a regular paint pen. You just press it on the paper till your paint runs through and then you're ready to go right along the edge.
MH: Finally, a coordinating wallpaper border adds a visually interesting cap to our striped wanes coating. Our finished walls goes great with our broken tile backsplash and they really give this kitchen a lot of personality.
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