How Do You Add Sand To Interior House Paint For Texture?
Textured walls or ceilings can add an extra decorative touch to any room in your home. An inexpensive and popular method of creating texture on walls or ceilings is to add sand to standard interior paint. If you would like such a textured wall, you can create the paint and sand mixture and apply it yourself. Use latex paint to create textured paint, as it works better than other paints when sand is added to it. Waterproof paints that are made for kitchens and bathrooms can also have sand added to them. Purchase only silica sand that is specially made to create texture in paint. This type of sand is available at most home improvement or hardware stores. It comes in a few different grain sizes, each of which will give a different texture to the paint. Add as much of the silica sand as you want. Though silica sand is usually sold in individually portioned bags that are meant to be used in one gallon of paint, you can add less sand to the paint if you want less texture or more if you want
