Paint Your Living Room - How To
If you want to give your living room a whole new look, the cheapest way to do so is with paint. You can easily paint your living room and make it look attractive by using opaque paint on your walls and enhancing the paint with decorative paint touches such as stencils, sponge painting and even stamp painting.
The first thing to do is to cover all holes on the wall. You might have hung photos or artworks so this caused small openings in the wall. Make sure there’s no space to peep in.
Next step is to “vacate” the room. Take away area rugs, expensive decorations and personal items like photos, paintings and other knick-knacks. Cover the furniture that are too heavy to move. If it’s a wall-to-wall carpeting room, cover the entire floor as well.
Now comes the painting part. Don’t forget a primer paint if you’re going from a dark color to a lighter one. It will be easier to paint the ceiling and the walls in the same color. With this, you don’t have to mix two varying shades and you don’t have to cut corners on the ceiling where one color ends and the other one begins. It makes the job hassle-free.
Decorative Painting Options - There are several different decorative painting options that you can use to decorate your walls. Some of these include stenciling, stamping and sponge painting. You may want to use a pattern from a piece of furniture or even an area rug. One way to tie the room together is to take the pattern from the area rug and then make a stencil using the pattern. This can then be transferred to the wall. This is easy to do as you only need to use tracing paper and acetate. Once you have a stencil, you can then put the same pattern on your wall as is reflected on your area rug.
If you really want to get ambitious, you can stencil both the wall and a new, plain area rug to tie the look of the room together after painting. You can also use the same stencil on slip coverings that can be used to match the decor of the new room. The type of paint that you use for the walls for stenciling will be latex, but you will have to use fabric paint to stencil the area rugs.
This painting project won’t take you more than three days to accomplish. It’s incredibly convenient, affordable and fun! Your living room won’t only have a new wall color, but a decorative paint too.
Interior Living Room Decorating experts all agree that it is essential to use area rugs. And as discussed here one of the most popular ranges is the tropical print area rugs.
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