How to Cover Damaged Walls With Kitchen Wall Finishes

The kitchen is more than just the heart of the home, the kitchen is the powerhouse of any household. The kitchen is the place where all members of the household come to gear up for their day ahead, be it with a glass of orange juice or a cup of coffee. If you have damaged kitchen walls, be it from a fire, flood or a game of indoor baseball, you need not live with the damage. Instead, strategic kitchen wall finishes can both mask the damage and restore your kitchen to its original charm.

Painters tape
Oil-based primer
Paint roller
Wallpaper paste
Tissue paper
Oil-based paint
Trim brush
Tinted glaze

Instructions

- 1
  Select a paint color for the wall. Tape off all baseboard and molding and cover the kitchen floor with a drop cloth. Prime the wall with an oil-based primer and a paint roller; this is your first layer of protection against the damage. Allow the primer four hours to dry.
- 2
  Apply a light coat of wallpaper paste with a roller. Crumple up sheets of tissue paper and smooth them out.
- 3
  Lay the tissue paper over the wall, overlapping them onto each other and tearing off any pieces that overlap and hang off the wall. Your goal is to cover the wall with the interesting wrinkled texture of the tissue paper. Allow the wallpaper paste to dry.
- 4
  Prime the wall once more with a light coat of primer. Give it four hours to dry. Pour your paint into a paint roller pan and roll on a surface layer of paint. Allow it four hours to dry.
- 5
  Use a trim brush and an additional layer of tinted glaze in a contrasting color to highlight the wrinkles in the kitchen walls. You're not painting the entire wall with this brush, just where the wrinkles are. Allow the glaze to soak in for 20 minutes and then rub in the glaze with a rag and allow it to dry overnight.

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