But I didn’t want to make yet another trip to the store, so I made my own out of several layers of cardboard (the pieces that came out of the mosaic tile packages for the shower) hot glued together with a piece of dowel rod hot glued to the bottom. You can purchase one from Home Depot, Lowes, or Amazon, and they look like this. The process using Modern Masters Venetian Plaster (or any other similar finish like LusterStone) is time-consuming, and you’ll definitely get a good arm workout, but it’s really pretty simple.įirst, you’ll need a drywall hawk to scoop the plaster onto. You can see the difference in the third coat (to the left of the door) and the second coat) to the right of the door) in the picture below…Īnd here’s what that third coat looked like when it dried… DIY Venetian Plaster - The tools and the process And then I lightened some of the plaster in the same way, and did a third coat. Sanding also brings out the “movement” in the finish. That was still not the right color, so I spent about 45 minutes sanding the wall by hand with 220-grit sandpaper just to remove any imperfections (the wall is supposed to have a smooth finish, not a textured finish). You can see the difference between the wall to the left of the doorway, and the area above the doorway. But rather than doing that, I just bought another gallon of the Venetian plaster in a light base, had her add just a touch of gray to it (so that it looked like a dirty white rather than a stark white), and then did a second coat with that new mixture. She told me I could bring it in and she’d lighten it up for me if the color wasn’t right. I wasn’t really concerned about it, because I knew I could build up layers and lighten any subsequent coats, and that a darker layer or two would add depth to the finished wall. So that’s how I ended up with such a dark color to begin with.
When tinting primer, close enough is good enough. That’s not at all what this product is, but I think she was thinking she was tinting it more like a tinted textured primer that doesn’t really need to be a precise color. She kept telling me that they generally don’t tint this product because it’s used as a texture, and then you’re supposed to paint over the top with latex paint. That was much darker than I had intended it to be, but I seemed to have trouble communicating what I wanted with the girl working at Benjamin Moore that day. That first coat was pretty dark, and also had a lot of green in it. This is the product I used - Modern Masters Venetian Plaster in an ultra-deep tint base.Īnd this is the formula for the original dark teal… I started with a coat of Behr Aqua Rapids, and then troweled on the Modern Masters Venetian plaster finish on top of that. I’d love for you to join me on my actual website! You can click here to find this post on Addicted 2 Decorating.
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Even though it’s lighter, it looks much more velvety now than it did with just the first coat on it. So that’s why I’m thinking I might do one more coat this weekend just to lighten it up one more time.Īnd each new layer adds such a beautiful depth to the finish. It’s still not quite as light and soft as I had originally planned, though. It still has that velvety look, because that’s the nature of the Venetian plaster finish. So after two more coats, gradually getting lighter and lighter with each coat of the Venetian plaster finish, this is what my walls look like now… I love that spa look that I created with the original mock ups of the bathroom, and I can’t get that look with the darker walls. Here’s how it looked…īut after going back and looking at posts where I had shared my original plan for the bathroom, I decided to stick with lighter walls. But once I got the first coat of the darker teal on the walls, it was so gorgeous that I wondered if I might want to keep the walls dark. I had planned on the walls in the bathroom being a lighter teal, similar to what I have on my kitchen cabinets. When I showed you pictures of the walls after I had done the first coat, I was second-guessing the color.
I might have my Venetian plaster walls in the bathroom finished, but I’m going to live with them as they are for a day, and look at them throughout the day, and decide if I might want to do one more lighter coat.
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