Since you’re a novice, I can pretty much guarantee that the patch will look terrible, since this is your first time doing drywall work. It’s easy to patch up the hole. It’s very difficult to get the fix to be invisible. I can guarantee that your patch is going to be very visible. Nothing against you, but making an invisible drywall repair on a textured wall is more of an artform than just following some step-by-step instructions.
Since it’s not your house, I think you should contact the landlord. If you attempt the repair, you may make it worse and harder for the landlord to fix properly later on. It will be better to get a pro into fix it right the first time.
I got to disagree. What will draw the eye is a flat shiny spot. Adding some texture will avoid that. The texture match doesn’t have to be perfect. No one will have a reason to focus their eyes directly on that area. People just see a big wall.
The OP does need to practice texturing. Lean a scrap piece of sheetrock outside and try the brush technique I linked earlier. Then go inside and do it when you feel confidant.
Patching drywall isn’t difficult. Theres not much to screw up. You can always lightly sand off the texture and redo it. Texture is just thinned down drywall mud.
I don’t have a cite for this. But several friends in the trades have told me texture is used to hide imperfections in the finishing of sheetrock. A slick finished wall tends to show every imperfection. Flat wall paint is preferred too because glossy paint shows every bump and dent in the finished wall.
while texture does hide drywall imperfections trying to match the texture of a small spot could be hard to do. texture is done with large motions covering a large area.
Before you start, try to match the texture yourself on a separate piece of drywall. Keep practicing until you can match the texture of the existing wall. If you can accomplish that, you can probably patch it well enough so that it doesn’t look bad.
Go to the hardware store and buy a few 2’x2’ pieces of drywall. Practice texturing these small pieces until you can match the texture of the wall. Once you have the texture perfect, kick a big hole in the practice drywall. Patch the hole and match the texture once again. Paint over the whole thing and see how it looks. If you can get it to look pretty good, you can probably fix the wall yourself.
Russ Olinatz has a great youtube channel for working with drywall. He has a lot of videos covering different techniques–everything from a small patch to a whole wall. He’s clear and detailed in his descriptions.
One thing that will make this repair challenging is that the texture is heavy. If you just cut out a hole and your patch is butting up against the texture, it will make it difficult to blend the joint compound across the seam. Your putty knife will have one side on the heavy texture and one side on the smooth patch, resulting in a wavy surface. It may be better to sand down the texture outside of where the patch will go. This way the putty knife will move smoothly across the wall and you can get a nice, smooth, flat repair. Then add the texture back over the whole thing.
Take the wall scraps to the paint store to get matching paint. Depending on how well the match is, you may end up needing to paint over the whole wall in order for the newly painted area to not stand out. Also get some primer. You must first prime the patched area or else the new paint will have a different texture over the patch and be very noticeable.