Light Orange Peel Walls

We finish all of our garages with medium orange peel because it is easier to clean than knockdown or hand troweled.

Light orange peel walls.

You can spray your own drywall orange peel texture match the existing texture. Drywall texture provides stylish appeal to your walls and ceilings and you have many options. Each full pressure stroke can cover an area 6 inches by 3 feet. 3 in our series if you have done your own drywall repair this is how you m.

Wait 10 minutes to reapply a second coat for thicker texture. An orange peel texture looks exactly as it sounds it resembles the peel of an orange. Put on eye protection. Technically you can do it by hand too but this method is best left to the pros.

Orange peel in terms of walls and painting is a light texture that hides imperfections and blemishes but without creating an obvious relief or pattern on the wall. Like darzy said it helps hide sheetrock tape and imperfections. Use a roller with a thick nap to apply the mix to the wall. Oh my god i m here in colorado springs visiting my daughter and her whole house is orange peel walls.

The orange peel texture roller method allows you to add texture to your walls without an airless spray painter. Comments 2 when i lived in san antonio texture was quite common the house i had built had knockdown texture and although it was odd to me coming from the north once you have it you really don t think much about it. The gun can apply several different wall and ceiling textures including orange peel splatter knockdown and popcorn. Light orange peel is a common texture and barely noticeable.

Just be sure to use the right nap roller when painting. Mix joint compound and water to a thick yogurt like consistency. This is the most horrible surface to paint and i ve painted lots of walls in my life. The only time i have heard of people trying to get rid of it is when they do batten board wainscot and want to make the wall look more flat like a board.

I ve succeeded in painting one 3 8 wall in powder room if i ever meet the person who invented this finish i sincerely will slap them across the face. You will need to prime the walls ahead of time so that the texture has a smooth dirt free surface to stick to. Orange peel is a splatter type texture that involves spraying plaster in a pattern over your readied walls. It is not the best tool for texturing very large areas but works well for a few square feet.