Re-decorating! How can I get paint to look textured?

I was browsing through wallpapers to cover 2 walls in my room, which would need about 4 rolls. The rolls I liked were all over £20 ($35ish) so I couldn't afford to get everything I needed.


Is there any way I can get paint to look really textured and wallpaper-y?Re-decorating! How can I get paint to look textured?
Wallpapers To Go


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Debbie Travis Home Decorating DIY %26amp; Design Tips


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Bob Vila Paint Designer


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look at using sponges and two paints blends for textured appearance,


if there is a basic pattern you can draw on heavy paper as stencil cut-out as template, and paint in with brush, roller, or spray,





SeeMyDesign.


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Behr Color smart


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Materials-World colour charts


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..Re-decorating! How can I get paint to look textured?
Don't texture your walls. In a year's time you may be fed up with it and it cannot be undone. You are stuck with it. If you want something different, buy a 2.5L tin of suede effect paint. Put it on with a brush and see if you like it. If you do, then do the rest of the room either in a similar sued effect paint or a more traditional paint and keep the suede look for a feature wall. But honestly, I would keep away from the texture stuff.


Good luck.
maybe a faux linen technique where you strie a glaze down horizontally, then let it dry, then strie a second time, but vertically. it truly looks remarkably like linen when done properly





to make a simple glaze, mix paint and glaze with a very small amount of white





practice on white boards first (but it's easy, don't be scared) (but honestly, the savings of doing a linen strie (sometimes called a cross hatch strie) won't be worth the time and effort. my suggestion is to buy the wallpaper for convenience)
First just so you know this isn't easily reversible. Once you texture walls they stay textured. Buy a bucked ot fast drying drywall mud. This is applied like paint with a scrub brush. Brush it on and dab or swirl it until you get what you want. Once it's dry pait it like you would any other wall. Practice on an old piece of wood first.
Paint the wall the color you like in a lighter shade of it. When that is dry either use a sea sponge or rag rolling technique in the darker shade of paint.


http://www.how-to-faux-finish.com/
method one ...cheap ...buy a roller with built-in pattern maker ...Various types ...method two ..cheapest ...put elastic bands over your existing roller ..more the merrier
Like some other people said, i would use a sponge after the paint is almost dry and maybe do a pattern.