How to Design Textured Walls Using a Swirl Effect

Texturing is something that you can do to walls to add depth and character to the otherwise flat surfaces. It's also good way to hide imperfections in the wall, such as ridges and depressions. There are several methods of texturing walls, most of which involve textured or stucco paint, which is thicker than regular paint. One artful method is to swirl the stucco material into groups of circles with the flat side of the trowel.

Tarps
Wide drywall knife
Joint compound (plaster)
Roller
Stucco paint
Rubber grout float

Instructions

- 1
  Remove the room's furniture. Lay tarps over the floor.
- 2
  Scrape the wall with your drywall knife to remove any peeling paint or debris.
- 3
  Use the drywall knife to spread joint compound over any cracks, holes or depressions in the wall, getting it smooth and flat. Let it dry for 24 hours.
- 4
  Roll stucco paint over about a 4-by-4-foot area at one end of the wall, near the top, using your paint roller. Lay it on as thickly as you can get it to stay on the wall.
- 5
  Press your grout float into the stucco, making full contact with the flat surface of the tool. Twist the float in a circular motion, keeping it flat to the stucco, so it makes a circular swirl pattern in the stucco.
- 6
  Move the float to an area next to the swirled circle you just created, then repeat the process, creating a second swirled circle along the edge of the first. Repeat, making multiple swirled circles adjacent to one another, side by side, over the whole area.
- 7
  Spread more stucco paint over the next section of the wall and repeat the whole process, filling the area with swirled circles. Make sure the second area is textured seamlessly into the first. Continue over the whole wall. Let it dry for 24 hours before moving the furniture back in.

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