Finish Drywall Ceiling Textures With A Mud Swirl

You can use drywall mud for various home projects.

When it comes to finishing your ceiling, you have a few options. One popular option is to hang drywall. Drywall, or gypsum wall board, often called Sheetrock, is easy to maintain and easy to clean if it's been finished properly. However, it might not offer the best look for your home's decor. If you're not happy with the look of your newly hung drywall ceilings, you can help improve the appearance by finishing the ceiling with a swirling texture, which will hide imperfections. Create a swirl texture on your ceiling using drywall mud.

Instructions

1. Add water to the drywall mud to get it nice and creamy. The consistency you're going for should be easy to work with but not runny.

2. Dip a stiff brush into the drywall mud and start making practice swirls on a piece of scrap drywall. The swirls can be simple arches or circles. They can be random or a repeating pattern. You can stagger each row of swirls or place each swirl directly on top of another. You can overlap rows a little, a lot or not at all. Keep practicing until you get the look you want.

3. Mark the midpoint on your ceiling with a pencil. Measure outward from that mark to each wall and determine approximately how many swirls will fit in each of the first rows. If it's helpful, you can mark the approximate end of each swirl on the ceiling and rely the marks as you create the swirls to ensure you get all the swirls the same size.

4. Put some drywall mud on the stiff brush again and start making swirls from the middle of your ceiling all the way to one wall. Pull your brush away quickly after each circular motion so create a wispy effect. Continue with these rows until you have a "+" pattern on the ceiling from the middle of the ceiling to each wall.

5. Keep adding rows of the swirl pattern, moving from the middle of the ceiling to the outer wall. If you make a mistake, remove the drywall mud with a flat trowel immediately and start the swirl again.

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