Use metallic paint to create a focal point.
Deciding to bring a metallic paint into your home or commercial location can make the difference between ho-hum and amazing. Metallic paint adds a feeling of warmth, luxury and elegance to a room. Because of advancements in the painting industry, ready-mixed metallic paints are now easily available. Before, metallic dust powder needed to be mixed into the paint to achieve a metallic finish. As you can imagine, this was a tedious task often left to experienced professional painters. Now, however, you can purchase metallic paint from your home supply store and apply it yourself.
Instructions
1. Examine the surface that will be painted to check that it is smooth. Metallic paints highlight any imperfection in a wall or ceiling, so it is imperative that you fill holes or gouges with spackle and then sand them smooth.
2. Place a dropcloth down to cover the floor of the area you will be painting. If the cloth is not large enough to cover the entire floor, you can move it along from wall to wall as you continue painting. Using painter's tape, tape off the edges of the area that will not be painted. Push down tightly on the edge of the tape so you form a strong seal against the wall, ceiling or trim. This will guarantee a clean edge with no paint bleeding through under the tape.
3. Prime new drywall and previously painted surfaces with latex wall primer, using a brush to cut in the edges and a paint roller to cover the larger surfaces. If the finish color you have picked is dark, ask your paint store to tint your primer that color. This aids in the paint coverage and may reduce the number of coats of paint required. Allow the primer to dry thoroughly.
4. Pour the metallic paint into a paint tray, filling the tray's trough about 1 inch full. Use the dipped paint roller to apply the metallic paint to the wall edges, top and bottom. To fill in the main area of the wall, work in approximately 20-by-20 inch sections. Dip the roller and fill in a section roughly 20-by-20 inches by painting in a V motion (not straight up and down or side to side). Once finished with the section, move on to the area directly below and complete another 20-by-20 inch section. Dip the roller as you begin each section. Continue until you reach the bottom of the wall.
5. Use the paint roller to make a gentle vertical stroke from the ceiling to the floor in the 20-inch-wide column of paint you have just applied. This smooths in the roller marks created from the paint application. Move onto the next area of the wall and complete the steps again until the room is completed.
6. Allow the first coat of metallic paint to dry for at least four hours. Apply a second coat of metallic paint. Allow the second coat to dry at least 12 hours so that it can cure and harden.
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