Embossed decorative elements, made of different materials, will make your interior unique. The art that came from Ancient Egypt to create stucco ornaments has come down to our days and has not lost its popularity. Monograms, caissons, pilasters, cornices, cones, balls and, of course, rosettes will give the usual type room an element of luxury and nobility. Relief can decorate the surface of walls or ceiling.
Separate elements of relief modules, from which a unique mosaic is assembled, is not difficult to buy in any construction shop. However, as a handmade artistic material, it is very expensive. And the manufacture of stucco with your own hands is not difficult and not very costly.
Consider how to make stucco with your own hands.
The most difficult and expensive in this process is the creation of a form. This requires a considerable amount of time and some artistic skills. It is much easier to buy a silicone blank of the necessary decorative element.
Instead of procurement, you can purchase one necessary product, on the basis of which you can make a form from artistic plasticine. However, plasticine molds are applicable only for small elements, such as rosettes-florets. To create larger products, for example, half-columns, you can not do without a purchase form.
Stucco with your hands: a master class
The material for the manufacture of stucco is an ordinary building plaster. You need to raise it with water, but not very much. The more water, the longer the product will dry. Adding PVA glue to the solution will make the product more plastic and, accordingly, less prone to cracking.
Mix the gypsum solution more conveniently with a construction mixer.
The mold should be cleaned of dust or debris and thoroughly treated with silicone grease. If you skip a small piece of surface and leave it ungreased, the gypsum will stick to the silicone and gently pull the element out of the way. Many for this purpose use foil or cellophane, but such materials do not allow to recreate the image qualitatively. Lubrication also makes the surface perfectly smooth, which allows you to repeat all the subtleties of the terrain.
A prepared solution is poured into the prepared form. The back surface of the workpiece is carefully equalized with a spatula for better grip of the part with the surface to be decorated.
After drying, the finished product is carefully removed from the mold and aged for 24 hours at room temperature.
Thus, the stucco molding on the walls or ceiling by oneself is not at all difficult and even fascinating.