If you wish to update the interior or give the empty wall of the original look, and at the same time to cause surprise and admiration for guests, this can be achieved by applying decorative coating on it - frescoes. The art of drawing frescoes was known in the old days - this is painting on raw plaster, which for a long time decorated the walls and domes of churches, palaces and rich houses.

Advantages of independent wall design with frescoes

Today, this type of decoration of premises has become available to many, including the owners of ordinary apartments who wish to add exclusivity to the interior. At the same time it is possible to show your creative abilities and solve this task yourself.

In addition to the opportunity to show their hidden talents, and at the same time feel involved in the world of art, the applix of the murals on the wall with their own hands has the following positive parties:

1. Freedom of creativity. There is no need for weeks of looking for a shirpotreb among the placers, which are chosen by the counters of shops, something original, stylish and beautiful, which would have to do and on the pocket. You can not depend on the hours of work of the stores, from the availability or lack of a suitable product. All you need is to weigh your capabilities and decide on the plot.
2. What is created with your own hands, can rightly be considered an exclusive - there is no such picture in this performance anymore.
3. If you simply want to decorate one of the walls, and the other - leave as is, the self-application of the frescoes on the wall will allow you to adjust to an existing style and interior design.

How to make a mural on the wall

The main difficulty of this task is not in the selection of materials and in the knowledge of the technician. The most difficult to transfer the pattern on a wall, as This process requires at least a little creativity and drawing skills.

But science does not stand still, and today a new technology invented that allow to solve the problem of lack of artistic talent, along with the desire to decorate their houses with their own hands.

There are two ways in which you can go in their desire to independently engage in decorating the walls. Both are designed for different degrees of artistic training:

• For those people who have never studied drawing and do not know what is creativity, unique technology invented figure translated into crude plaster - frescography (finished fresco). For its creation, a special film is applied to the image using large-format printing, and then transfer it to the plaster. Small elements are drawn by hand. Technologies allow play with different textures, drawing give aged effect via krakelyurnyh lacquers simulate cracks etc. Thereafter, the web can only cover a protective varnish layer and wait for drying.
• You can then attempt to install the frescoes on the wall. This is not a complicated process, similar to wallpaper glue. The one who had to do it, to cope with the task without difficulty.

Indisputable advantages of this method are smaller labor costs and money, room for imagination, which does not limit your artistic abilities: the wall will cause anything - from photos of nature or a loved one's heart to a reproduction of the famous painting.

The downside can be assumed that, contrary to your desire is not entirely the creation of their own hands. Though self-preparation was carried out, the process will not allow to give free rein to the imagination to the fullest.

People who are engaged in painting at the amateur level, can choose another way. To do this, we must first determine the pattern and to choose materials, and only after that to start this exciting venture as the application beautiful mural on the wall.

Stages independent printing on wall

• The first step is to clean the wall surface of the old coating and plasters. Then straighten them plastered all over again. The material for alignment is suitable for sand and cement-based. To avoid cracking it is better to add a binder component.
• This is followed by a primer. On the market there are many kinds of plaster, including white, for painting and color. The selection can be carried out, starting from the invented design. In the process, you must strive to ensure that the surface is perfectly smooth.

• We must now wait for the complete drying of the wall, and finally start the creative work.
• To paint is better to take acrylic paint water-based, which can be purchased in the store for artists. It should be remembered that the quality of paint are very expensive. Still need two natural brush with hard bristles, and one artificial.
• When all the preparations are finished, you can transfer to the wall previously created sketch. To do this, it is completely the reverse side paint over a wide slate, which is sold in the same place and paint. Then you need to press it against the wall and draw a line all that with the help of the applied layer on the reverse side is printed on the wall. But other than that they should be also incised in order to paint with spray painted surface, they have not disappeared completely.
• In the next step stucco wall is wetted and throughout its area of \u200b\u200bapplied background. After the need to wait for drying to continue to draw on a dry field;
• The finished, dried up the image should be covered with a protective layer. For this purpose suitable lacquer or wax, wherein the second more preferable than the former, because of many outstanding properties, chief among which is environmentally friendly. But if there is no wax, and paint is, it is quite possible to use them as well.

How to stick the mural on the wall

Before you glue the fresco on the wall, you need to determine what is its basis. It can have the following properties:

1. Elasticity. In this case, the image is applied to the elastic plaster, and due to its small thickness, can adjust to the shape and wall surface of bending. web can be any size.
2. Rigidity. The basis is quite thick, but it has little weight. Such properties as stiffness and thickness does not allow the use of a fresco, if the wall is not very smooth or have bends, because web can not take a curved shape. its size is limited.

It should be selected from the form of the foundation, relying on your own designs relative to the design of the room. Depending on what qualities it possesses, you can get either an image that performs on the surface of the wall and looks like a picture, or a wall with a wall.

As mentioned above, the finished fresco is glued to the wall like ordinary wallpapers. This process can be divided into the following steps:

1. Preparation of the wall. They must be perfectly smooth and smooth, as in the case of self-painting, as well as to have a bright shade.
2. Before sticking, the fresco needs to measure and place the wall.
3. The glue for fliesline wallpaper is applied not to a thick layer on the wall and on the opposite side of the canvas. In this case, it becomes noticeably softer, and it is easy to damage with negligent circulation.
4. Further, the fresco is pressed against the wall and roll over the wallpaper roller, passing the glistening glue from under it.
5. We must not forget that throughout the work, as well as during the drying of the finished wall, all windows and doors should be closed to avoid drafts.
6. You should not worry if small irregularities are present on the canvas, after complete drying of the wall they will stretch themselves.

In the process of work, it is important to ensure that the canvas with the pattern coincide with each other at the joints.

Drawing drawing using a finished stencil

If you, without having artistic skills, still do not want to use the finished canvas, you can use a simple and universal way, ideally suitable for beginners - painting with a stencil.

Tools and materials necessary for work:

• the template for which you will paint the wall;
• paints of the desired colors;
• stencil glue in the form of an aerosol;
• palette (if no, you can take a conventional plastic plate);
• sponge, which usually wash the dishes;
• film or newspaper to protect the sexual coating.

The painting process itself consists of a sequential execution of the following steps:

• Most often, the color of finished paints have bright, "candy" shades. In order to achieve a beautiful, noble tone, you have to mix them, experiment to get what you have to do.
• Further, the need to spread out on the floor sheeting (film, paper, cardboard, etc.), put on it face down pattern and apply a layer of adhesive from a container stencil. During application it should be remembered that the goal is not to paste the template to the wall, and the only fix for a while, so the glue does not require very much. But you should not be greedy, too, because If the area around the pattern will adhere to the surface of dense, then the paint can under zatech stencil.

• Now you can carefully glue it to the place that you are going to cover the painting, attaching to the wall, and as gently as possible straightening and smoothing a paper or a clean, dry cloth.
• In the next step, you can proceed to the application of paint. So it does not seep under the template, it must be done with a thin layer, then the image will look neat and beautiful. Getting Started need to have the necessary time to spare because performing a mural, in any case can not be rushed and hectic.
• Apply the paint handy most usual foam sponge for dishes, and that the picture look "alive" - \u200b\u200bcan be a little bit to change the shades of the same element, such as a sheet or a flower to fill a darker color, and the other - a little lighter, but at the same time comply with smooth borders transition from one shade to another.
• Now you can remove the stencil, and marvel at the beauty created by their own hands. If you perform a pattern on one wall, the work on this can be completed. But if, say, the pattern around the perimeter of the room, then the stencil to be separated, in order to create a new piece of the picture.
• The template again applied to the wall so that it is aligned with the existing pattern and smoothly flowed therefrom, and stained in the manner described above. So, step by step, in accordance with your ideas, signs all the necessary wall area.
• In this process is complete, you can clean the floor of the protective coating, wash the stencil, and leave the wall to dry completely.

What will it cost murals decorating the room

With self murals costs will be small - you have to spend only on tools and materials. Although they provided high quality, cost is not cheap, but they require very little.

Another thing is to purchase the finished fresco on the wall. Its cost can be quite large. It depends on many factors, for example, from the size of the canvas, from the complexity and beauty of the image, from the texture of the material, give it different effects.

If when choosing a fresco on a wall, a photo from the catalog provided by the seller, it turned out to be inappropriate, then you can order a digital fresco in your picture or photography. But in this case, it will be included in the additional cost, because Specialists will spend time on cropping, color correction and adaptation to the desired size.

In case you have not decided what you want to see on the wall, and you have no ideas at all, you can use the services of a designer. It will help you to formulate my desires, adapt them to the interior of the room and order the fresco on the wall. The price will also include the services of this specialist.

Of all this, it becomes clear that the cost of the finished fresco depends on what materials you choose and what will want to use the services. The average price starts from 4500-5000 p. per square. m, and the upper limit does not exist.

Another important moment that should be taken into account is to decorate the walls around the fresco. Depending on the drawing and sizes, it will take either a decorative stone or mosaic elements, or wooden fittings.