How to Make Marble Wall Finishes With Paper

Numerous textures can be used as part of your home's decor. A faux marble finish, for example, can really improve the look of a bare wall in your home. While real marble may be well out of your price range, you can create a surprisingly similar finish using ordinary tissue paper. It might sound impossible to accomplish a faux marble finish with tissue paper, but once you give this technique a try, you'll wonder why you never thought of it before.

Tissue paper
Wallpaper paste
Paint roller
Chip brush
Primer
Paint
Glaze
Rag

Instructions

- 1
  Rip apart lengths of tissue paper. You need a few more sheets than is required to cover the wall. When you rip the tissue paper, the goal is to remove all the smooth edges and have only ragged ones.
- 2
  Scrunch up the tissue paper sheets so there are wrinkles throughout. Smooth these out on the floor for easy access.
- 3
  Cover the wall with wallpaper paste using a paint roller.
- 4
  Pick up the tissue paper one sheet at a time and smooth it over the wallpaper paste with a chip brush, slightly overlapping each sheet. Be sure there are still some wrinkles and ridges. This is what provides the faux marble look.
- 5
  Wait for the wallpaper paste to dry. Apply a coat of primer using a paint roller. Once the primer is dry, paint the wall again with your chosen color. Do not continue until the paint is dry.
- 6
  Dab on small amounts of a colored glaze using a chip brush. Wipe away the glaze gently with a rag before it has a chance to dry. This adheres the glaze to the ridges created by the tissue paper and gives your wall a faux marble appearance.

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