How to Create Faux Wallpaper With Paint

Next stop: Walmart, where they picked up custom-tinted latex paint for two base coats. Karl made plastic stencils by tracing the star-patterned papers, used them to create larger posterboard templates, and worked his way across the ceiling and walls, positioning the templates with quick-dry adhesive and spraying them with gold paint. "Cutting them out was tedious," he says, "but then the work flew."