what texture pattern for my walls?

[Lorenzo il Magnifico]

I want to texture my walls before painting them something like this:

but not quite so red.

any suggestions? links to images would be great.

TIA

[RicodJour]

I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you suggesting that people post links to colors, textures, what? I can suggest things to search for, though: Venetian plaster would be a good start.

R

[dadiOH]

Suppose you texture your walls...any texture. Now you paint them. You then have textured walls that are all *one* color, not with a variation of color as in the photo. What you want to do to achieve that efffect is to paint with *different* colors. Check Google for "faux paint".

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[kzinNOSPAM99]

looks like a sand wash texture in that pic. there's probably better quality but Behr has a variety of faux texture paints. You can check out their site to get some ideas. I don't know offhand who makes the best quality faux texture paint.

good luck ml

[dadiOH]

Drywall mud...

1. Rent a commercial unit and you can spray drywall mud as light to heavy orange peel which can be knocked down.

1. Rent a hopper and use a small compressor and you can spray light orange peel.

2. Trowel it on and you can use anything you want to create a texture. Even your bare ass.

Texture paint...

1. Sand finish

1. Venetian plaster

2. Plain which can be textured with whatever you want. Even your bare ass.

IOW, WTF is "suitable"?

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