Sealing Glazed Walls With Faux Paint

After you apply a faux finish to interior walls, they often exude a deep and satisfying color and pattern. Enhance your walls even more by adding a varnish topcoat. Although this is an optional step, you may find that sealing the walls you glazed with faux paint makes the colors more vivid. The varnish will also help to protect the glazed faux surface from normal wear and tear.

Drop cloth
Painter’s tape
Stir stick
Latex varnish
2-inch angled trim paintbrush
Paint tray
Paint roller -- 1/4-inch nap
4-inch flat paintbrush

Instructions

- 1
  Spread a drop cloth over the floor beneath the wall. Apply painter’s tape around the adjacent surfaces to keep the varnish from spreading to these areas.
- 2
  Open the can of latex varnish, and stir it thoroughly with the stir stick.
- 3
  Load the angled trim brush with varnish, and paint around the perimeter of the wall to cut in the varnish.
- 4
  Pour the varnish into a paint tray, and load a paint roller. Apply the varnish over the wall with the paint roller, applying it in a thin, even layer.
- 5
  Brush over the wet varnish with the 4-inch paintbrush to remove air bubbles created with the paint roller. Continue working until you remove all air bubbles with the paintbrush.
- 6
  Allow the varnish to dry completely. Remove the painter’s tape and the drop cloth.

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