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I know there's loads of clever people on here so maybe there's someone who works as a decorator or who has experienced this and can advise. Decided to decorate my living room, I moved in December so my first experience decorating this particular place so no idea what's been done before me. I put two coats of dulux silk on the walls and left for two weeks and the next stage was then create my geometric pattern using frog tape in ochre and a few lighter shades of grey, about 7 large triangles. Stuck the frog tape on saturday morning immediately followed by putting the ochre on and then immediately removing the frog tape as advised on their instructions. The frog tape has immediately pulled off the grey from underneath almost as though it has barely bonded to the walls. It's not just removed the grey paint though, it sort of left some stretched paint rippled so its not possible to paint over the top of that really. Therefore I got a craft knife to remove these sections in the hope of then maybe somehow touching up the edges even though this wouldn't help with doing another coat on top or the other triangles. Soon as you started to lift these edges whole sections have peeled up like a sticker with hardly any stick! My wall now looks an absolute mess and I've no idea how to proceed.
The whole living room is in grey and I dont see how to fix it other than maybe spend an age peeling off half of the triangle of yellow/grey. In the hope of then fixing that grey section of wall and just wallpapering over the one wall where I wanted the pattern and therefore covering the disaster under it.
Help!?
I'm currently decorating my house for the first time in 13 years and I've sanded all the walls down to stop this from happening. I've sanded right back, checked what's left with a scraper, 1 coat of stabiliser, 1 coat of white emulsion and then it's ready for decorating. Lots of effort but the final finish will be great.
Decorating is all about the prep work and when people simply paint over old paint or wallpaper it just hides all the wear and tear, poor quality products and poor workmanship from previous efforts.
Yeah, that's gonna look shit whatever you do. Wallpaper sounds your best bet.
If you want a fancy pattern on your wall go to your local graphics / sign writing place and get them to print what you want on large format vinyl?
Yeah that's a good idea if I could fix it enough somehow but still wanted the same pattern over the top.