Preperation for painting and papering is pretty simple, all that's involved is a little filler on the joins of the panels that will be wallpapered, filler in all of the staple holes and a little flexible filler/sealent stuff in the corners.
Something like this.
I did make the job a little more difficult for myself when I cocked up with measuring the last panel and ended up with a couple of extra joins to fill. Somehow I measurde 103cm but wrote down 113cm. It must have something to do with this metric business, if I had been working in inches it would never have happened!
Still, it turned out OK in the end.
Painting the walls involved 1 undercoat followed by 2 top coats. The first top coat was rolled on and then smoothed out with a brush to give a real wood effect, the second top coat was brushed on.
The walls for wallpaper got a primer of watered down wallpaper adhesive to seal them.
2 comments:
Nice idea to smooth the paint with a brush to get a more "wooden effect"... :-D
Yeah, worked really nicely. No idea who gave me that tip!
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