Liquid wallpaper in the interior

Recently, the market of finishing materials offer an innovation that combines the properties of an elegant traditional customary paper wallpaper, plaster ease of use and practicality of paint coatings. All these qualities make a great choice of liquid wallpaper for the walls of the finishing coat in the interior premises.
Today it is the finishing coat in the interior space has become a mass solution for the design of experiments, capable of satisfying even the most demanding taste.

What is a liquid wallpaper?

Despite the "wet" the name of the finishing material, liquid wallpaper - it friable pulp mixture with additives. By mixing with water, this adhesive, environmentally friendly mass is converted into a material resembling clay for children's creativity. After solidification of the wall formed stable, elastic and velvety coating thickness of 1-2 mm, without joints.

From commercially available can be distinguished Ready-mix for customers without professional skills and mixtures that require specialist skills.

The finished mixture should just add water. Its composition already contains a coloring pigment, mica, pearl, glitter, flock fibers, which provide well-known result in advance.

Professionals prefer to buy liquid wallpaper without additives and color pigment to in subsequent process to add colorants and decorative components for an ideal embodiment author's design.

Kinds

Depending on the substrate type are several types of decorative finishes. For all types of liquid wallpaper is characterized by the general advantages and disadvantages, but for them to visualize the differences in the overview table.

Kinds	silk	cellulose	Silk and cellulose
Base type	silk fibers	Paper (cellulose) fiber	Silk and cotton (combined) fiber
dignity	Resistance to ultrafioletu- an excellent choice for interior design on the sunny side; "Silky" texture surface; high wear resistance.	Budget price category.	Resistance to fading is higher than that of cellulose fibers; affordable price range.
disadvantages	Not cheap	color burnout on the sunny side, low wear resistance compared to the liquid silk wallpaper.

"Pros and cons"

Making a decision about their use in the interior of the room, you must pre-weigh the "pros" and "against" the use of this material.

The advantages of applying this coating include:

• a variety of design solutions;
• durability;
• environmental friendliness;
• fire safety;
• easy restoration, no seams and the need butt drawing;
• antistatic effect helps repel dust from the surface;
• High opacity index (inflicting on an uneven surface with ideal result);
• high sound insulation and thermal insulation properties;
• no wastes.

List the advantages of liquid wallpaper long list of shortcomings, but it must be said that the high absorbability does not allow the use of this material where humidity is increased. This fact limits their use in showers, bathrooms and similar areas.

How do liquid wallpaper in the home

The recipes for the mixtures branded manufacturers do not advertise for liquid wallpaper. However inquiring minds recreate the possibility of making the mixture in the home.

The essence of the manufacture of a mixture of their hands is to obtain a plastic and homogeneous mix of cellulose. Since the main source of cellulose is paper, for this purpose, any suitable waste paper other than glossy.

To give volume to the mixture "home" liquid wallpaper should add fibrous filler, for example, cotton wool or sintepon, keeping the ratio of cellulose fibers, and 4 to 1.

The mass so prepared soak in water for at least 12 hours. For decorative be added mica, dyes, color coat, in an amount of not more than 200 g per 1 kg of paper, is added to the powder CMC tack adhesive.

All this construction is crushed blender until the consistency of soft cheese. After all the manipulations obtained preform "matures" about another 6 to 12 hours.

Features of the application

building materials market offers liquid wallpaper in the form of a dry mix, packaged in bags. The product becomes a mixture for applying liquid wallpaper after addition of water according to proportions indicated by the manufacturer on the package.

Gradual superimposition of wet wallpaper is as follows:

• The surface is prepared for application of liquid wallpaper - pre-cleaning of old wallpaper, paint, antiseptic treatment, removing dirt, dust, primer.
• The tank mix mixture and water in a ratio according to the manufacturer's instructions.
• Thorough mixing of the resulting composition.
• Soaking the final mixture of from 30 minutes to 12 hours (according to manufacturer's instructions).
• Applying the mixture liquid of wallpaper on the wall.
• Thoroughly dry for a period of 1-3 days.

As practice shows, enough to dry 48 hours. The last point is particularly important, at this stage, the hardening of the finishing coat.

The nuances of the application

Application of liquid wallpaper is made with a spatula, trowel (trowel), a special spray, brush rubbing, special textured roller is used to create a surface relief.
The essence of the workflow using the mixture as follows:

• dial prepared plastic mixture to the tool;
• put on an accumulative dose spatula, move with a spatula on the wall, then rubbing movement spread over the surface;
• smooth the surface float;
• form a relief textured roller or a palms.

The stronger the trituration mixture over the surface of the wall, the thinner the layer of the mixture will be put. Fineness application provides a more economical use of the decorative coating.

Accordingly, the increase of liquid wallpaper layer thickness increases the consumption of raw material, but this approach improves the insulating properties of the room.

You can not use the gloves and safely work with your hands - a mixture for applying liquid wallpaper made from natural environmentally friendly components.

Features of the application drawings and patterns

Decorative coating of this type is sold with prepared or texture patterns.
The relief is applied on the surface of simple improvised tools directly during the deposition of liquid wallpaper, textured roller or simply formed palms of the hands.

The peculiarity of this finish is that a mixture of different colors, you can decorate the walls with drawings.

The images on the wall are applied stencil or arbitrary application methods. In both cases a preliminary preparation of the walls, after which a pre-dried base layer liquid wallpaper pattern superimposed.

When stencil method stencil neatly mounted on the wall masking tape. Then the silhouette stencil carefully applied liquid wallpaper needed color.

Arbitrary manner on the walls are the author's drawings. Pencil on the main cover is drawn sketch. After application of each partial region sketch neatly covered liquid wallpaper different colors, just as are colored children's coloring, the color of a color.

Care

The apparent advantages of this topcoat is the presence of antistatic properties, it is not prone to accumulation of dust and small harmful fractions. This feature makes it easier for care walls covered with liquid wallpaper. However, the walls are coated with the same need of care.

Manufacturers strictly prohibit washing walls covered with wallpaper liquid due to the high hygroscopicity of the material. Only dry cleaning is recommended for the care of such a finish. for cleaning services experts recommend using a vacuum cleaner and a soft cloth, and cleaning hard to reach places perfectly ordinary dust brush.

Sometimes the coated liquid wallpapered walls is further coated with a special acrylic lacquer. On the surface of the decorative film is formed, which protects against moisture and other adverse effects. This treatment is guaranteed to extend the life of liquid wallpaper up to 10-15 years. Such a surface can be safely periodically expose wet cleaning.

Where to apply a finish

Application of liquid wallpaper in the decoration of the walls in the interior is possible in homes, offices, institutions. In accommodation, the use of liquid wallpaper helps to create a comfortable home, satisfying the aesthetic needs of people living in it. In institutions for public education of the children (schools, nursery schools) and health care institutions (hospitals, health centers) wall such a decorated trim, optimal for use due to such properties as fire safety, environmental friendliness, ease of restoration. Liquid wallpaper in the office interiors to create an optimal environment for work due to its acoustic properties and the possibility of an elegant finish to the business style of office space.

Living room and bedroom

Liquid wallpaper is an excellent material to create unique interior living room and bedroom. The variety of colors and different textures provide an easy opportunity to realization of the most different style decisions in important rooms of the home as a living room and bedroom.

Living room - a room where the family spends the total time and greets guests. In this room it is recommended zoning to solve the problem of the maximum versatility of the space.

When decorating the walls of the bedroom is traditionally practiced calm pastel colors. This color scheme has a calming effect, adjusts to rest and relaxation. A separate advantage of using this material in the interior bedrooms are high insulating properties of the furnish. The thicker deposited on the walls and ceiling of liquid wallpaper layer, the more effective sound absorption.

Children's room

The most important factor in the application of liquid wallpaper children's room - environmentally friendly material. Their use for wall decor children's room will allow to protect the children's room from potential toxins such as toluene, vinyl chloride and other hazardous substances.

The mobility of children in active play can cause micro traumas that children, fascinated by mobile games, can cause themselves and each other. The elasticity of the structure of the coating protects against these effects and is an occasion to decorate a child's room wall liquid wallpaper.

As well, the impact of childhood hyperactivity may be the need for periodic restoration of a small wall. But if the walls of children's rooms are decorated with liquid wallpaper, it is enough to put a small portion of the mixture svezherazvedennuyu on the damaged areas. And for some parents and children will be an interesting task to fulfill your own picture on the wall of a child's room with the help of liquid wallpaper. You do not even need to be able to draw - enough to fill circled stenciled silhouettes.

design solutions

This is a unique paint finish can realize the most daring flights of fancy design.

An unlimited number of colors and textures makes it easy to zone premises with liquid wallpaper. To achieve the effect of differentiation at room zone by contrast reciprocally topcoats, designers use interleaving and selection of these zones suitable colors and textures. Thereby increasing interior functionality, sharing a single room on the necessary functional areas. The efficiency of zoning perfectly complementary to each different dedicated zone lighting solutions with the help of illumination and general lighting.

For the effect of visual expansion of space used techniques of coloring when applying multiple shades of the same color can achieve amazing results.
The plasticity of this makes it easy to trim and trim cover niches arches and protrusions complex surfaces and curved walls.

Designer style in the interior

Fashionable style solutions can be implemented with this finish. To achieve stylish results, enough to adhere to the following design guidelines:

• For an embodiment "avangard" style claimed decorating walls in black and white and red gamma, and the use of zoning strict geometrical lines.
• The classic style of "modern" is the opposite of the strict contrast the "vanguard." His incarnation requires the walls in pastel colors. This finish accentuates its integrated monolithic view of colorful, whimsical, with rich patterns, decorative items, furniture and accessories.

• High demand style "eclectic", which harmoniously elements of different eras and styles, particularly "retro". Topcoat warm colors with silk texture unite this diversity into a unified stylistic decision.
• Style "Art Deco" dictates the need for natural-natural palette when decorating the walls. Liquid wallpaper green shades perfectly set off the heavy expensive furniture, trimmed with gilt trim, creating an elegant vintage atmosphere.