Home Painting and Decorating Tips
Following are 20 of our home painting and decorating
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1) A foyer speaks of the personality of its
occupants. Perhaps you are passionate red, cheerful yellow or tranquil
blue.
2) Harmonize the paint colors that make up the palette of
your home. Strike for visual ease, not a jolting shock when walking
from room to room.
3) An easy way to create this harmony from tip #3 is to select
shades one degree lighter or darker than the adjoining room.
4) If a piece of art or rug is the focal point of a room,
let this be your guide in selecting your color palette
5) Beige walls are not always boring. In the master bathroom
(photo below) a neutral wall canvas allowed the other accents in
the room to glow.
6) A room’s color palette should emphasize the architecture.
Crown molding, beams, columns, arches, domed ceilings, niches should
stand out and the remaining be the backdrop.
7) To achieve an accent wall without changing to another
color, paint the accent wall the same color as the other walls but
in a high gloss. This works well in a living room keeping it peaceful
but adding interest.
8) Landscape art brings the outdoors into windowless rooms
and basements. Paint the walls a light hue that compliments the
art.
9) Awaken your senses when selecting your color palette for
your kitchen and dining room. Butternut squash, lemon chiffon and
tart apple green are tasty colors.
10) Red is energizing and creates drama. In a music room,
theatrical draperies in deep berry red create the perfect stage
as music notes sing in the room.
11) If you are afraid of color, introduce
color gradually into your home. For example if you like periwinkle
blue add vases, draperies, pillows or art in this color family.
12) Some have no fear of color. Beware of the power of color.
If done tastefully, it can be gorgeous. Overdone is ostentatious.
13) Go wild in a powder room. This is a room you can have
fun with. Be daring. Paint it a bolder shade of a color you have
used in an adjoining area. For example if you have a lavender hall
leading to the powder room, paint the walls and ceiling of the powder
room orchid purple. Another option that adds glitz and glam is to
cover the walls and ceiling in shades of purple glass tile. Bisazza
has color palettes to die for.
14) Get double the pleasure by choosing the primary and secondary
colors for one room then reverse them in an adjacent room. An example
would be raspberry walls with luxurious pistachio bedding in the
master bedroom. Pistachio walls in the adjacent sitting room are
the backdrop for the relaxing raspberry chaise.
15) Inspiration can be as ordinary as an embellished towel
in a guest bath. The coral red flowers in the picture below motivated
the paint choice.
16) Consider the floor as your fifth wall. The paint color
for the walls and the floor coverings should compliment each other.
17) A gallon of paint covers a multitude of sins. This is
our mother’s cliché. She is never far from a bucket
of paint. . . tidying up behind her 10 children and 10 grandchildren.
18) Freshly painted walls are like having radiant skin –
no matter what you wear you always look fabulous.
19) Look to animated movies for colors to paint children’s
rooms. Shrek green accented with Critter Brown will be an academy
award winner.
20) Let nature inspire your color palette. The blues of the
ocean accented with tropical green brings a family room to life.
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