Archive for the ‘Colors & Paints’ Category

Colours add vibrancy to your house. Therefore, selecting the perfect colour combination requires a bit of research. A consistent and monochromatic colour scheme lends your house a soothing and calming touch, selecting other accessories for your home becomes easier since you don’t have to worry about them matching a whole host of other colours.

However, a single colour scheme seems trifle dull and boring at times. A life without colours will indeed be boring.

Patterns instead of a solid block colour are very much in vogue nowadays. Patterned walls add at extra something to your home. Keeping one wall patterned and the rest in a single, soft colour will definitely brighten up your room. Never paint a small sized room in darker colours as it will seem all the more small. Dark colours do not reflect light thereby making the space appear smaller. Go for light colours such as sky blues, pale greens, lime yellows, pale fuchsia, baby pinks, faded reds and so many more with one bright dark wall; this gives your room a bright and different look. So go ahead and choose whatever colour that suits you, since colours are nothing but a reflection of your personality.

Painting to those not conversant with it can come across as a very tedious activity. This is however not the case to inventive people who can come up with the different type of painting techniques.

Sponging is one of the easiest was through which one can achieve a paint. Here there is the base color which is applied first which is followed by the random applying of the second coat of paint.

Another decorative painting technique is the glazing which requires some taking of classes to effectively execute it. One here can use as many coats of glaze to achieve the desired effect.

Trompe-L’oeil which means fool the eye is so advanced that it can bring out a painting which looks like a marble or granite finish. A lot of talent is required here however.

Last decorative painting technique is the combing where the teeth of the squeegee used here is used to comb through the top layer of the paint. This is a very inexpensive way of painting.

Warm or cool colors are what many people want when they are thinking of decorating their homes. Decorating your home can be frustrating especially when it comes to color selection that is why many people find white as the simplest way to decorate a house. White is favorite among many people when thinking of colors to decorate a house. However, there are shades other than plain white, which includes eggshell, snow white, off-white, bright white, and ice white.

You have to be careful if you decide to use different color whites in the same room because it is challenging to match white and white just like matching mauve with yellow. Another consideration when decorating using white is that you have to understand that white will show off dirt and pet hair more than any other color. The best and easiest way to go when decorating using white is to go to your hardware store or local paint and get different swatches of white.