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Tips and tricks: creative redecorating of your walls
Faux Painting Techniques:
Sponging and stippling
Colour washing
Ragging
Wood graiing
Dragging
Pattern
Stenciling
   
     

Surface
Smooth surfaces indoors, woodchip wallpaper, slightly structured wallpaper or wooden surfaces. The surface shouldn’t absorb too much of the paint.

What you need

Paint:
Emulsion paint or latex paint for the walls, acrylic glaze for wooden surfaces, in each case use a basis-colour tone and then another tone for the special-effects.

For the basis-colour tone:
Use the mako wall roller or mako glaze roller.

For the sponging design:
use either the mako natural sponge and gloves or the mako flock sponge or mako leather special effects stamp.

For the stippling design:
Use the mako stippling brush or mako currycomb sponge.

How to do it the right way

1. 1. Paint the wall evenly with the basis-colour tone using the mako roller and let it dry good.
   
2. 2. Wet the mako special-effects tool slightly with water then start spoting on the wall randomly with the special-effects paint. It’s up to you how big the distances between the single spots are. Watch out that no colour edges can be seen.
Don’t dip your tools too deep into the special-effects paint and make sure to wipe off a bit of paint each time on a piece of paper, so the paint does not drip while applying the stippling technique.
If you want to use more than one special-effect color, you will have to take time to let the first applied paint dry a little bit before applying the next, so the colors don’t run into each other.
We advise you to use either acrylic glaze or varnish to protect your wooden surfaces. But do not forget to let the painted surface dry for at least 24 h before starting.
   
 
  mako natural sponge and protection gloves, Ø 14 cm
Art.-Nr. 1006 14
   
 
     
mako stippling brush
with wooden handle
11,4 x 6,9 cm
Art.-Nr. 1004 00
  mako flock sponge „marble effect“
Art.-Nr. 1005 02
     
 
 

mako leather-special effect stamp,
square, made of wood, with a manageable handle,
15 x15 cm

Art.-Nr. 1008 50

  mako leather-special effect stamp,
with extra managable wooden handle,
Ø 47 mm
Art.-Nr. 1008 51
     
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