"What happens when you have grass-cloth wallpaper taste with a place-mat budget? That's a dilemma one Instagram user solved recently when redoing a room in their home. Although Justin Miller wanted to install pricey grass-cloth wallpaper on all the walls in his space, a budget constraint didn't allow for it. With some creative thinking, expert planning, and a bit of bravery, Miller leaned into a faux finish paint technique that creates the illusion of grass cloth (but only requires two cans of paint!)."
"Once Behr's Flax Straw is dried, paint over it with Behr's Crepe (as its thinned) and pull the mini broom through it horizontally to create a woven effect. Allow these panels to dry, then rearrange the tape, and repeat the entire process on the blank panels, but reverse the horizontal and vertical pulls this time - Flax Straw gets a horizontal pull, and Crepe gets a vertical."
Justin Miller recreated the look of grass-cloth wallpaper using a faux finish paint technique that required only two cans of paint. He thinned each color with water-based polyurethane to make transparent glazes suitable for layering. Miller painted alternating panels with thinned Behr Flax Straw and pulled a mini broom through the wet paint vertically to create striations, then layered thinned Behr Crepe and pulled it horizontally to simulate woven texture. After those panels dried he reversed the pull directions on the blank panels to add variation. Miller completed the entire room solo in about seven hours with dramatic results.
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