How to Paint a Faux Metallic Finsh

Metallic glaze are the easiest way to create dramatic metallic look on any wall in your home. This is a simple project; you don’t need to have any experience with glazing or even painting your own walls.

There are a few differ coats of paint in this metallic wall finish project, so you will need a few days to complete the entire home improvement project. You won’t be working all day, but the drying paint will take some time.

To Paint a Metallic Faux Finish Wall You Will Need:

Interior Late paint
Metallic Glaze
Pain trays
Painter’s Tape
Paint brushes
Paint Rollers

The first step when applying any type of metallic glaze to a wall is to choose the right base coat of interior latex paint. This is the most important part of the entire project and I can not stress this to you enough. If you choose to ignore the next bit of advise, I can almost grantee you your metallic finish will look tacky, fake, and even streaky. 

You need to paint the wall with a base coat of interior latex paint in a color that will complement the glaze.
This step is so important I really should write it for you twice highlight it with bold lettering an underline it. 

To clarify this step, this means for a silver glaze, you should always use a gray interior latex paint for your base. For a copper faux metallic wall finish you should always use a reddish or terra cotta base color in interior latex paint. Finally, for a gold metallic faux wall finish you need to always use yellow or golden tan interior latex wall paint for the base paint color. Go for a dark yellowed tan color that looks a lot like mustard for a gold metallic paint finish. 

Silver, copper and gold metallic glazes applied over a base coat of white or black gives an unprofessional look that is streaky and unfinished looking.