My Son-in-law does Drywall and texturing for a living. This doesn't make me an expert, but by listening I pick up a thing or two.
I have heard the term "orange peel" related to rolled on texture, as with a paint rooler with a decent knap. Not a deep knap, but somewhere in the middle as I remember hearing it.
If your going to "spray "on your texture, You can experiment a bit to get a texture you like, but remember, whatever the texture before painting, it will be dulled slightly by the painting process. For instance, If you do the Crows foot type stuff and you have some pretty tall ridges in the texture, when the paint goes on, it will wet the texture a bit and will kinda smoothe out the sharpness. Make sense?
Anyway, I rather like a lot of different textures I have seen, and would be willing to try something other than the , (if you consider it simple to do orange peel ) simple textures and do something that will hide defects in the tape and bedding work, and any other types of prep defects...............thin spots and rough spots and the like.
The easiest to do is definitely the crows foot type texturing, but it's likely the most boring of the textures done nowadays.
The best looking for my house will likely be what is called "icing" by the SIL,( he loves these neat names for this stuff, it makes him feel like he's a god or something ) which is a look something like icing a cake.
My home is a Spanish ranch style house by fox and jacobs..............so the "splatter and drag" type texture would probably *fit* best for the general style of the house, because it has a stucco look to it.............for this type, you use that funky mud shooting machine and splatter the walls with it and drag a trowel over it to flatten out the high spots..............looks really nice too. Might actually do this one after all is said and done.
These are just a few of the many types of normal textures available. Don't let anybody tell you they are terribly "special" either. unless you do it yourself..............then you can tell everybody how special it is!................LOL
hope this is a step in helping ............I figure not much though.
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