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Prepare the Work Area and Tools

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DIY EASY Faux Walls! Metallic Suede.

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Tools and materials

  • 4-inch Microfiber Roller
  • Boero Flex Trowel
  • Chinex Brush
  • Paint Pan
  • Rag
  • Turf Tool (Texture Brush)
  • Frog Tape Frog Tape
  • Orange Masking Tape

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with this metallics way just a few things I'm gonna be doing a random roll and a random trowel effect I'm gonna be using just a four inch microfiber roller I've already pre wetted it and I've got it ready for use it's a really good idea to pre wet it clean it with a rag make sure there's no lint that are going to come off of it into your metallic finish I've got a little arrow flex trial this is a trial that you use to install the tox way so it's got to be a flex trial if you're gonna get the proper effect so I'm gonna random roll it random trial it and you can just work right along and and you just don't want to do anything that's like consistent it's gonna be a random look when I'm installing my bar on coatings hitting it with my microfiber roller I don't get any a the product bleeding underneath so I use frog tape and then I use the mask you know two rows of frog tape out so I won't get anything because that roller you see as thicker than just one inch tape so I can run frog tape and then production tape or I run it's gonna have tape your choice so I'm just masking right along I'm gonna get this all ready to go okay ready to start installing our metallics right now I've got everything masked off ready to go I like just working out of like smaller areas like this working out of a pan I'm just going to dump some into a pan and really all we've got to use typically is I either use a for this a small area so I'm going to be using a four-inch microfiber roll are very important to use a microfiber roller but you if I'm not in larger areas they have power bathroom or something like that I'm going to use a 6 inch microfiber roller there are some areas down here that I can't get into with the trout I'm just going to be using a brush so I'll just brush it in and this is this is a x8 chinax brush so I'll probably get a softer bristle brush I gotta get down inside there the rest of it I can roll in trowel so here you go do you want to start from the top and

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