I have battled the orange peel texture on my bathroom walls, and I have won. I WIN I WIN I WIN! It wasn't as hard as I thought, either. I'll show you some photos of the process. We started here:
Do you see it? Look at the texture of the walls over the vanity. It's pretty aggressive. I thought I could live with it, but the more I lived with it, the more I hated it-- it made wall repairs difficult and muddied up the wall color. Plus it looked dated. Like, majorly dated.
I did some research and I thought I'd wind up skim-coating via the squeegee method, in which you roll slightly thinned drywall mud onto the walls with a 3/4 nap roller and then smooth it with a squeegee (hence the name). But I kept thinking about a conversation I'd had with my mom when I first moved in. She'd wondered if maybe I could just apply mud to the walls and then scrape it with a taping knife, thereby filling in the gaps in the orange peel without having to really resurface the walls. And I started thinking, why not? I decided to try a little patch just to see how it worked.
And it worked great.
Here's a close-up of the original texture:
Oof, that shit is UGLY. This is what we were working with after one coat of mud:
And after the second coat:
And a wide shot of the second coat:
I sanded between the first and second coats. It was awful. But when I finished, I primed and applied two coats of very pale blue-gray paint, and I'm so happy with the results:
And your close-up:
Nothin' but roller texture.
SUCCESS!
Side-by-sides for ya:
August 2012 to April 2013:
Boo-yah.
And also, the antique nightstand that got bounced from my bedroom in favor of a RAST has found a new home in my hallway. How darling is this?
I'm going to hang King Charles above it.
This weekend I tackle the RASTs-- updates to come!
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