Can we talk drywall texture and paint sheen?
wi-sailorgirl
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Can we talk about wall texture?
Comments (24)Interesting thread, thanks for sharing all your thoughts and experiences. My dad was a builder in S. Cal when I was a kid, and we always had walls more like what Kats pictured, with stucco exteriors. Up here in the PNW I've always had orange peel interior walls. My son's house is knock down and even that looks better to me, but maybe it's just the change. In my last house I lived with the orange peel for years and hated it. Finally, I sanded off (and probably ate) tons of orange peel so I could wallpaper. It was an awful job. Then I papered, not all rooms but most. Everyone who visited loved the wallpaper, or at least they said so. I finally really loved the look of my house in every room. Walls that had seemed cold and plastic warmed up like a big ol' hug and people loved being there. When I went to sell, the r.e. folks said the wallpaper had to go. So my son and I steamed and peeled off all the wallpaper (another awful job, including clear up to vaulted ceilings in the LR) and my son sprayed the orange peel back on the walls and then I painted everything in the whole house. The house looked brand spanking new, with new or refinished floors throughout. Turns out the folks who bought the house would have loved the wallpaper as their style of decorating was the same as mine. I probably could have just painted, too, without putting the texture back. Live and learn. Here in this house I have wallpapered only above a chair rail in my bedroom and just went right over the orange peel. It does show through a little but it's not too bad I guess. At least if I remove the paper I won't have to re-spray the walls. I still haven't decided if I want to keep the paper (a very subtle thin sage/white Ivey Leage stripe). I hate the orange peel texture. I just don't like the look of it. But my experience is so limited. Maybe if I had flat walls I wouldn't like them and would decide the orange peel is better, I dunno. At least it was heartening to read that some of you like the orange peel. I don't want to sand again in this house -- at least not whole walls, though if I do faux wainscot I will do the lower walls, and that will be only on the staircases. IF. My daughter's house had horrible old dark fake panelling in the master. I happen to absolutely adore painted panelling. She hates it. She troweled venetian plaster over the whole thing, another awful job. I had wainscot panelled my hallway and family room (a big job) with fake panelling in my last house, in a medium fairly heavy grained wood look. I loved it! I had some dogs at the time that would scratch themselves by leaning against the hall walls and walking down the hall and I was forever washing those walls (and bathing the dogs pretty often). To paint or wallpaper above the panelling one only had half the time, half the work, and half the cost, which was a wonderful bonus since the wainscoting never was painted, didn't show dirt and cleaned easily. When I got the house ready for sale on the r.e. agents' advice, I primed and painted the wainscoting plus all the woodwork in the house stark white. I painted the top of the family room and hallway in Navaho White. To my surprise, the subtle difference in the two colors looked absolutely fabulous! But I'll bet with her dogs the new owner is spending a lot of time with a scrub bucket in hand washing the white wainscot. However... I'm considering white wainscoting here even with my five dogs because I love the look of it. With the bottom panelled it makes the more limited amount of texture on the walls easier to live with and gives the walls a better overall look, IMO. Most of this house has white woodwork and I love the look but I'm forever washing it and repainting it. The rooms with their floor-to-ceiling orange peel drives me nuts. Sure sounds like people have strong opinions on wall texture, so at least I'm not alone in that. lol...See MoreTexturizing plaster wall w/drywall mud?
Comments (1)I believe what you are looking for is called skip troweling, here is a link for various skimming methods. Here is a link that might be useful: skip troweling...See MoreCan I put drywall compound on a painted, textured wall?
Comments (6)If you can fill small dents by dabbing in the compound, then yes you can do this - compound sticks fine to paint. I have taped new walls to existing painted walls many times. If you want to fix the joints and feather them out, then your husband is correct - you need a smooth level surface. Even a single screw head sticking up 1/64" will mess up a finishing job since the taping knife hits that bump as you are finishing. That is why I always scrape my surface level between coats - any little chunk or bump raises havoc. For tips on finishing drywall, see the site below. Here is a link that might be useful: Taping and Finishing Drywall...See MoreTalk to me about WINDOW RETURNS; drywall, sills only...
Comments (36)No-casings and painted sheetrock returns are the right look for a modern house, and the major brands of windows have all gotten on board with all-fiberglass or for Andersen, all fibrex, windows, this class of windows having relatively shallow frame depth, and all offer dark colors same outside as in, to achieve this popular new look in "modern." The #1 favorite color is black, followed by dark bronze. To do it right, the carpenter needs to properly shim the opening before the rockers get there, so reveals are consistent all around. Insider Carpentry channel on YouTube has a great vid on how to do this right. The rockers need to mask well, then use a tearaway bead at the window side, and a good corner bead at the outboard sides. The best look, IMHO, is to have a 3/4" thick sill at bottom with the same window reveal as the sides, so the bottom of the opening is not shimmed in as much as the sides. To get this right, the window sits up on shims at installation time and the bottom of the opening is only shimmed to get it dead level and flat for the drywall corner bead. That sill gets no apron under and has to have a good plate-like bed. Anything more than 3/4" looks to beefy. Sills should have tiny returns. Here is a 3D render done in Chief Architect of a window with sill and another without. The windows are modeled at the same dimesions as the all-fibrex Andersen Series 100, the wall is 2x6 framing, and the depth of the returns to the drywall face is 4-9/16". Note the very shallow bullnose on the sill edge, and the small return. A painted wood or stone, metal, or composite sill is going to be more durable and easier to wipe clean than painted drywall, no matter the paint. And as for the dust on those vertical returns at jambs, or horizontal across the head, and durability, you have all kinds of drywall corners eleswhere in the house. Why are corners at windows going to behave differently. If your builder has not done these no-casings openings before, think twice before asking him to do it. If he has, insist on seeing examples of work. You don't need to be a first time event for the builder, his carpenter, or his sheetrocker....See Moregraywings123
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