How to Give Your Interior Wall a Speckled Look

While solid bands of rich color can warm and cause a room to radiate cheer, there's no reason that solid colors of paint have to be your only color choice when it comes to painting your walls. A speckled paint job gives your walls a higher amount of natural dynamism while still evoking organic color schemes found in nature, such as those present on certain flowers and, of course, speckled eggs. Speckling your walls with paint is a basic process that doesn't require you to have the skills of a professional painter in order to accomplish.

Sponge
2 buckets, one with lid
1 gallon water
1/4 cup trisodium phosphate
Painter's tape
Drop cloths
1 quart oil-based paint in base color
1 gallon tinted glaze
Paint roller pan
3-inch nylon brush
Textured drywall paint roller

Instructions

- 1
  Wash your walls with a sponge dipped in a mixture of 1 gallon of water with 1/4 cup of trisodium phosphate. Allow the walls to dry.
- 2
  Tape off the baseboards, moldings and windowsill with painter's tape. Throw down drop cloths on the floor and over furniture.
- 3
  Combine 1 quart of oil-based paint with 1 gallon of tinted oil-based glaze in a bucket. Replace the lid on the bucket, and shake the contents together well.
- 4
  Dip a 3-inch nylon brush into the mixture, and test it on an inconspicuous area of wall. Pour the mixed paint and glaze into a paint roller pan.
- 5
  Dip a textured drywall paint roller into the mixture, and rub it back and forth across the wall in diagonal crisscrossing patterns. This will create an effortless speckled effect. Continue in this manner until you cover the entire wall. Allow it to dry overnight.

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