Decorative plaster in the hallway: types, selection and finishes

Plaster has a lot of advantages, allowing you to use it in the interior of the hallway in combination with other materials. Noble texture, interesting decorative solutions, always a unique design - these are just a few of the reasons to take care of choosing just such a coating option. Wall decoration in the hallway interior with textured and Venetian plaster does not take much time. It can be done independently, observing the rules of coating, and get an excellent result.

Decorative plaster is a versatile material that can create the effect of silk, satin or marble, serve as a harmonious frame for the chosen decorative solution in an apartment or country house. It is ideal for interior decoration in a corridor or a spacious hall, practical enough, not afraid of temperature and humidity changes.

Decorative plaster is a budget way to create a beautiful and modern wall covering. There are variants of compositions for simulating a tree eaten by a bark beetle, creating a smooth coating or repeating the texture of natural stone. The plastered walls for a long time retain aesthetics, the original color, fit well even in a luxurious interior solution, harmoniously combined with natural stone or brickwork.

In the hallway, this coating provides additional thermal insulation, reduces the penetration of external noise from the landing.In addition to the aesthetic appearance, decorative plaster in the corridor makes it possible to give the surface of the walls perfect smoothness or volume. A variety of compositions to create an original finish allows you to choose the right option for a house or apartment.

Decorative plaster is a dry mixture of components, which, when moving into a liquid state, allows you to create a thin-layer coating on the walls with excellent aesthetic characteristics. These are finishing compositions that require preliminary surface preparation. They form a strong and durable coating that can withstand significant mechanical and operational loads.

Such materials always have certain components.

1. Binders In this capacity, both ordinary lime and synthetic materials can act as polyurethane, epoxy resin, acrylic. Their introduction allows to ensure long-term preservation of the plasticity of the material.
2. Fillers giving various decorative characteristics. In this capacity are cotton and wood fibers, coloring pigments, stone dust. To enhance the decorative effect, marble or quartz chips, mica, silver and gold threads are used.
3. Solvent. In this capacity, water or non-aqueous agents may be used. In this case, it is sold separately from the dry base.

Among the popular types of decorative plaster, materials are distinguished that make it possible to obtain a textured or imitating other types of finish coating. The most relevant solutions include such options.

• Smooth finish. It can be done in any color, in texture it resembles a wallpaper pasted surface due to a perfectly ironed texture. If you want to give the coating more volume, you can combine this option in the entrance hall with textured panels made of artificial stone.

• Textured plaster. This type of decorative coating provides reliable imitation of a rough stone surface. Using these compositions, you can artificially recreate the texture of various minerals and rocks. In the hallway, calm, natural colors look especially impressive. In addition, by choosing the right composition, you can decorate the walls under the skin of a crocodile or snake.

• Structural plaster. It contains particles of different structure and size. Due to this texture, it is easy to create unique relief coatings. For the decoration of the hallway, materials with a small fraction size are selected.

• Venetian plaster. She creates an interesting ornament on the surface of the wall and when painted can look incredibly attractive. Venetian stucco is one of the most beautiful. It contains marble or onyx dust with a slight radiance, which, when applied multilayered, gives the coating a special depth and decorative effect. After completion of work, the surface is protected by a special wax composition.

• Sgraffito. The material is applied layer by layer, in different colors, and then scratched to the desired depth, forming waves and stripes, forming a relief texture.There is another option of graffiti that can simulate the coating of brick or masonry.

• Velvet plaster. The effect of the "velor" surface creates the presence of fine-grained river sand in the composition of the plaster composition. The coating is translucent, delicate and especially weightless.

• Bark beetle. A rare option for a residential interior is quite suitable for the hallway. Such plaster is able to give the hallway a special cosiness; it harmoniously looks in the setting of a country house or space in the loft style.

The decorative plaster is characterized by a variety of color schemes. The finished tone can be obtained by coloring the white surface or by tinting the composition itself. Depending on the choice of technology with which pigment is applied, different results can be obtained in the decoration of the room.

When tinting, the coloring paste is introduced directly into the composition of the dry mixture. The base is white or translucent plaster, which can be tinted in gold or silver. The remaining pigments are selected from a huge database of available options, if professional tinting is performed.

When staining, special white plaster is used, which is first given the desired texture, then pigment is applied with a roller or brush. The color palette is usually selected based on the style of the room:

• light pink, blue, milky colors are suitable for provence;
• eco-style requires beige, brown, olive, straw;
• pastel colors are suitable for baroque, marble texture is acceptable;
• the classics use white, silver, light cream;
• Art Nouveau requires the use of pure blue, green or coffee colors;
• minimalism is made out in black and white;
• the loft allows the inclusion of red, orange, brick, green shades;
• country requires the selection of light sand, pale yellow pigments for plaster.

The choice of plaster compositions is always associated with the features of the room and the operational requirements for coating. For example, if you don’t want to make long preparations, you should pay attention to acrylic mixtures completely ready for application. They mix easily with color pigments and dry quickly.

Suitable for the entrance hall and the use of silicate plaster, similar to liquid glass. It is worth paying attention to the fact that such compositions are not too environmentally friendly. They are sold fully prepared and do not require additional mixing.

Expensive, but elastic and durable decorative plasters are obtained on a silicone basis. Such a surface after drying the mixture passes air, is environmentally friendly. The composition is easy to apply, dries quickly. But because of the high price, it is chosen for premium interiors.

There are different options for applying decorative plaster to walls. First you need to do the mandatory preparation of the surface of the walls. They should be even and smooth, with the elimination of excessive porosity, leveling of elevations. If the walls in the hallway are very uneven, it is necessary to use reinforcement with fiberglass as the basis, followed by applying liquid putty and laying soil from 20 mm.

To create decorative plaster coatings, you need to prepare the necessary materials and tools in advance:

• construction metal spatulas;
• plastic trowel to create the effect of “bark beetle”, “fur coat”, steel - for the Venetian plaster;
• paint rollers with pile and foam interchangeable nozzles;
• sand paper;
• textured rollers to simulate the skin of reptiles, marble and create other visual effects;
• stamps to form interesting decorative textures;
• metal brushes for creating straight and arched stripes;
• narrow-brushed hand brushes;
• tint and wax for tinting, coating protection.

For all types of plaster there are mandatory general application steps:

• using a trowel or steel grater, the composition is applied to the wall;
• movements from bottom to top form a full-fledged even coating, movements with a grater are performed at an angle of 60 degrees;
• when the applied solution becomes dry, you can begin to create decorative effects.

To create decorative plaster coatings of different types, special techniques are used. The differences in them are mainly in technology, the direction of movement of the tool. Following the exact recommendations, you can quite easily get the desired result.

1. For a rough uniform texture surface treatment with a trowel in a circle. The movements are short, keeping direction in one direction.
2. To receive bark beetle effect horizontal, vertical, cross or circular movement of the tool. This texture works well on sand and lime.
3. "Fur coat" from plaster is created by spraying the material on the wall of the hallway with the surface of the brush. We need a mesh base on a 1 × 1 m frame with a cell cross section of 10 mm. The finished "stencil" is applied to the primed wall, and the mixture is poured through it.
4. The effect of "boulders" or brickwork formed with a hard brush. The prepared primed surface is covered with a plastic layer of plaster of the desired color. The coating is leveled with a trowel. Holding the brush at an angle of 90 degrees to the wall, you need to perform trimming - the stiffer the bristles, the more expressive the effect will be.
5. Venetian plaster applied in thin translucent layers, in 12 steps, gradually forming a surface similar to natural stone. The material is poured onto the wall and thoroughly smoothed with a spatula.

• Smooth decorative plaster in the interior of the hallway. The active color scheme is “calmed down” with contrasting white details.

• An interesting solution for the entrance hall in a country house. Dark decorative plaster looks stylish and modern.

• Hallway design with textured plaster on the walls. The effect of rough masonry is harmoniously combined with the fine relief of the wall covering.

See how to apply FEIDAL decorative plaster in the hallway in the video below.