Textured paint

[dman2]

Anyone used the textured paint? I am not sure if this is what you call it but it is about $30+ per gallon. It has particles in it and gives a sort of rocky texture. I saw it in my local home improvement store but wasn't sure if it was worth the price. Not only that, I would hate to have to use a second coat and buy another gallon of the stuff. Also wondering if it goes as far as normal flat wall paint.
I just got thru painting our master bathroom for my wife. It is a sage color. Really nice, better than I had originally expected. I can't decide what goes good with this color for the master bedroom. I want to put up crown moulding too but it is a little on the pricey side.

[maleficent]

I have used textured paint on a ceiling in my last apartment. It was white paint, over white paint, so it was hard to judge coverage, but I'm thinking you'd need more paint than a regular paint because it's a lot thicker and doesn't spread as cleanly.

PLus painint over it requires sanding down the stuff completely... that was a very messy project

I just checked www.diynet.com -- the do it yourself network's website for textured paint - and they had some tips for doing it yourseld
http://www.diynet.com/diy/wa_texturi...269157,00.html

I know i've seen shows on creating textured like walls with sponging and stuff, it's tedious work but gives you the loook you want with just paint.

I love the color sage as a wall paint. WHen my parents bought their house a couple of years ago, it was painted to sell. A light sage was on most of all the walls, with a coordinating darker sage (but not too dark) in other rooms. Looked really nice together.

I'd probably do the master bedroom in the same family as the master bath. Most paint samples have 5 or so coordinating colors on them. Find the color you used and go a little bit darker (or lighter).

[dman2]

Originally Posted by maleficent

I have used textured paint on a ceiling in my last apartment. It was white paint, over white paint, so it was hard to judge coverage, but I'm thinking you'd need more paint than a regular paint because it's a lot thicker and doesn't spread as cleanly.

PLus painint over it requires sanding down the stuff completely... that was a very messy project

I just checked www.diynet.com -- the do it yourself network's website for textured paint - and they had some tips for doing it yourseld
http://www.diynet.com/diy/wa_texturi...269157,00.html

I know i've seen shows on creating textured like walls with sponging and stuff, it's tedious work but gives you the loook you want with just paint.

I love the color sage as a wall paint. WHen my parents bought their house a couple of years ago, it was painted to sell. A light sage was on most of all the walls, with a coordinating darker sage (but not too dark) in other rooms. Looked really nice together.

I'd probably do the master bedroom in the same family as the master bath. Most paint samples have 5 or so coordinating colors on them. Find the color you used and go a little bit darker (or lighter).

Thanks maleficent. I talked to some other people that I worked with and they suggest the same thing, to go a little lighter or darker. That sound like a good plan. Thanks for the advice. I think I will stray from the textured paint for now as I am trying to get my house ready to sell down the road and don't feel like making a mess with a paint that I am not comfortable with. Thanks for the link. It was helpful.

[fhqwhgads]

I bought Baer's Sand Texture paint recently, and it was a little difficult to paint with. I used a dark blue on a white wall, so it took a single gallon to do the two walls that I painted. The paint starts to clump on the roller after awhile, which can lead to an uneven texture. Also, it's impossible to get painters tape to adhere to the sandy paint, so make sure that you do the baseboards and celing first. I really like the way that it turned out, but it definitely wasn't as easy as I had hoped.