DIY Textured Walls

Spread drywall compound on the wall with a spackle. Use a trowel to smear it on in swirls, crisscross or some other pattern as you like. This gives the walls a southwest look and is a simple texture. The size trowel you use is up to you, with wider trowels creating larger swirls. Try to stay consistent with your strokes so that the wall looks uniform.

Thin the compound with water in a bucket to the constancy of thick paint. Fill it into the hopper of a paint sprayer and set the nozzle to a thick spray. Spray the wall in small patches so that you can work with it before it dries. Lightly scrape over the sprayed peaks to knock them down flat, but do not press in so far that you scrape the compound off the walls. this gives walls an old plaster look similar to Italian or Tuscan styles.

Set the sprayer to a fine mist spray and spray the walls in small patches to work with before it dries. Place a bristle brush on the wall and swirl through it, or set it in place and spin it in a circle. This creates a brushed plaster look similar to Victorian style walls. Dip the brush in water to rinse it off every so often as you work.