How Do You Paint Faux Castle Walls?
Faux castle walls are a fun way to decorate a child’s bedroom, or to add a medieval feel to a history loving homeowner’s living room. The entire process takes just a few hours, over a couple of days and is a surprisingly easy technique to learn which gives amazing results. Prepare the wall. Patch any visible holes. Use masking tape to mask the baseboard edges, ceiling edges, window edges and any other edges that you don’t want painted. Also, don’t forget to lay out a drop cloth to protect the floors. Paint the brown or grey basecoat and allow to dry thoroughly before proceeding any further. Using chalk, draw the stones of the castle wall. Use a template such as a piece of cardboard so that the stones are relatively uniform in size. The stones should be roughly rectangular in shape but without the sharp corners. Although you want them to be similar, the stones should vary slightly in size and shape, to create that natural stone effect. Leave a space a finger’s width in size between each
