How to Paint Grasscloth | A Detail Step By Step Guide With Tools

If you want to add a stylish and beautiful texture to your wall, then grasscloth is an ideal choice for your wall. Grasscloth wallpaper includes a range of neutral and human-made products. Its range of materials, including reed, hemp, jute, arrowroot, and other grass products. Now I will tell you how to paint grasscloth, which also includes different procedures. You can choose the grasscloth of your choice. Nowadays, there are many wallpapers available in the market containing pictures of painted grasscloth.

How to Paint Grasscloth: Tools you will need

For performing the task you will need some tools. Here are the list of tools.

• Sponge
• Glue syringe
• Professional painters tape
• Drop cloths
• Roller frame
• ½ inch nap roller cover
• Flat latex paint
• Satin latex paint
• Paintbrush

How to Paint Grass-cloth: Method

Step 1: Removing old wallpaper

Wallpaper remover tools:

Pump Sprayer

Clear liquid dif wallpaper removal

Wallpaper Scrapper

Heavy-Duty Scrub Sponge

Drop Cloths

Rolls of Plastic

Ladder

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Bucket

Garbage Bags

Precautions

• 1st thing you must remember don’t mix electricity and water.
• Turn off the breaker switch in your electric panel of the room to start your work.
• Push your furniture away from the wall where you have to work.
• Cover your furniture with plastic wraps or drop cloths to prevent any dust hazards on your furniture.
• Cover the floor area with drop cloth where you have to take off wallpaper.
• One more tip, you can put plastics on top of the drop cloth; later on, fold the plastic containing mess and toss it into the garbage.

Method

• As you take all safety measures, take the sprayer pump, mix it into the warm water, and then put clear liquid dif concentrate.
• Before adding clear dif, you must follow the manufacturer’s instructions to add into the water.
• Pump up the sprayer.
• Now wet a paper with the pump sprayer.
• Start from top to bottom of the wallpaper.
• Wait 20 minutes, then repeat the procedure.
• After 20 minutes, take the scrapper and see if the wallpaper is ready to remove.
• If it’s still sticky, then wet it again.
• Other wallpaper is easily peeling off from the wall, while grasscloth wallpaper needs to be scrapped.
• Once the wallpaper is removed, now you have to clean the wallpaper paste off the walls.
• Now once again, fill the bucket with warm water and put clear dif liquid. Slightly spray the wall with a dif and sprayer. After 20 minutes, take a strong sponge cleaner and wash it away.

Step 2: Hanging new Grasscloth wallpaper:

• Clean the remove all dirt from the wall. Make sure there are no nails placed on the wall. 
• After cleaning, apply a good quality primer to provide the best surface for the grasscloth adhesive.
• Lay the grasscloth down on the floor seems to be its front face down and back face up. Now apply the adhesive paste on the back of the grasscloth using a roller. You must remember one thing to apply the adhesive evenly in all areas.
• Now place the sticky side of the wallpaper on the wall starting from the top side. Don’t work alone; try to make companion work.
• Smooth the top portion by using a plastic wallpaper smoother.
• Continue the same procedure on all desired walls.

Step 3: Wipe it down:

• Take a wet cloth and dust off all the dirt from the wallpaper using a damp sponge. This step will eliminate dust that prevents the paint from adhesion.
• Let the wallpaper dry for 1 hour.
• Make sure the corners of the wallpaper had not peeled up.
• If the corners are peeled up, then fix it with glue.
• Inject the glue into the bulbing area. Put glue and press towards the wall to attach it correctly. After applying the glue, let it rest for 1 hour.

Step 4: Apply oil-based primer:

• Before applying the primer, take some precautions to prevent any nasal problems and avoid any marks on the wall.

• Open all windows
• Turn on fans
• Protect walls:

• Put the tape around the grasscloth area to avoid marks on the other wall side. Put drop cloths on the downside of the wallpaper.
• Apply 1 coat of oil-based primer using a roller.
• Move the roller vertically across the wallpaper to make a smooth surface.
• Proceed roller left to right. 
• After applying the 1st coat, let it rest for 1 hour. 
• Then apply 2nd coat, be sure it doesn’t have cracks and creases. If it has cracks, then it needs to be covered on the grasscloth.
• If you want a lighter shade, then apply two coats. As you increased the coats more, it will be lighter.

Step 5: Allow proper time to dry:

• Before applying the paint coat, wait for at least 7-8 hours, but it’s better to leave full night as it gives a refined look. 

Step 6: Apply the paint:

• The quality of the paint depends on you.
• Apply the one coat of latex paint using a roller.
• Use a paintbrush to paint those areas which are inaccessible.
• Apply paint by rolling left to the right giving a refined look. If you don’t make concern on this step, your wall will become patchy.
• When 1st coat gets dried, then apply the 2nd coat and let it rest for more time.

Step 7: Clean the brushes:

• For later use, wash the roller and paintbrush with clean water.

Step 8: Apply the final coat:

• Now apply the final coat to the grasscloth wallpaper, using the same priming method as mentioned above.
• Satin latex paint will provide the most accurate results.

Usage of grasscloth wallpaper:

There are different designs used for different rooms according to their requirements, including:

• Rosa Beltran Design: Antique brass picture lights adorn cabinet with golden grasscloth wallpaper on the shelves’ back.
• Sarah St Ahmad Interior Design: The chic contemporary grasscloth wallpaper in the kitchen features a glass front black cabinet, and on the back end, there are grey chic lines.
• AGK design studio: This design mostly use for GYM purposes with a grey finished grasscloth wallpaper.
• AMY mirrors interiors: It is primarily designed on the back of bar cabinets.
• Amanda Simons Interior: It’s a pink grasscloth wallpaper, designed to put on the fireplace’s back wall.
• Shophouse Design: Its position on a grey plaid rug, a grey oak nightstand with a top laid glass.
• Amanda Austin Interiors: It’s laid on a stunning kitchen with shaker cabinets layered with a Calcutta marble and white tiles. Its color is light grey.
• Blackband Design: It’s mostly applicable on the back wall of a pedestal sink. People choose a grey color on the back of the sink.
• Park and Oak Interior Design: It represents a beautiful white and grey transitional kitchen containing pendant globs over the kitchen island.
• Morgan Harrison Home: It also represents a white and grey marble shelf under kitchen pendants lights having a light brown color wallpaper.

How to Paint Grasscloth: FAQ section

Does grasscloth wallpaper show seams?

Yes, all grasscloth wallpapers show seams. As it’s a part of the installation, and many people unaware of this effect. If you feel bad after installing grasscloth wallpaper, then installing wallpaper, you spend hundreds of dollars all will waste.

Is it cheaper to paint or wallpaper?

Yes, it’s cheaper to paint, but wallpaper has this ability to cover life span. Overtime –paint comes out from the wallpaper, so needs to paint regularly. Similarly, if you are using low quality and thin wallpaper, it will damage so quickly, you will only see your loss to go.

Is grasscloth wallpaper hard to hang?

In simple ways, yes, it’s hard to hang wallpaper on the wall because you need proper attention and measurements to install wallpaper.

There are some down steps through which you can hang a wallpaper easily:

• Clean the remove all dirt from the wall. Make sure there are no nails placed on the wall. 
• After cleaning, apply a good quality primer to provide the best surface for the grasscloth adhesive.
• Lay the grasscloth down on the floor seems to be its front face down and back face up. Now apply the adhesive paste on the back of the grasscloth using a roller. You must remember one thing to apply the adhesive evenly in all areas.
• Now place the adhesive side of the wallpaper on the wall starting from the top side. Don’t work alone; try to make companion work.
• Smooth the top portion by using a plastic wallpaper smoother.
• Continue the same procedure on all desired walls.

Conclusion

To conclude this topic, painting is not as intricate as applying primer and paint with proper techniques. But removing and hanging a new wallpaper is quite a challenging procedure as first you have to remove wallpaper carefully. In most cases, when you take off wallpaper, it takes out the wall’s full paint layer. Now I explained to you all through easy ways to easily remove, hang, and paint a wallpaper.

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