Interior Room Painting Ideas
Also see:If you don't already have a design theme in mind for your interior painting project, it can be a challenge to decide on a new room decor. There are a lot of places to find painting ideas if you look around. Interior painting ideas can come from many places, just look thru home store advertising flyers, catalogs and magazines, or watch TV to see many good and bad choices for painting and decorating your room. We've included in this article some interior painting tips that we thought would fall into the good idea column.
Paint Walls a Deep Color
Redecorating a room can be as easy as adding a new, dynamic paint color to your walls or even just one wall of a room. This can be a quick and easy way to revive and renew the feel of your home without alot of work or expense. In a room with white or off–white trim and ceiling paint, adding an accent color to the walls can be done in one day.
Painting all the walls a deep, powerful color like this can make a room feel regal and refined. Use white on the ceiling and trim molding to reinforce this motif. This is a particularly good look for older homes with wide, ornate moldings but can also work well in a newer townhouse or condo with lots of door and window moldings.
To add warmth to your room, try using a dark, off-white, like antique or bone white, on ceilings and trim. The darker color will bring less attention to the ceiling than if a traditional white is used and it will feel lower and therefore make the room feel smaller and cozier. The darker trim contribute to this feeling, especially when using earthtone wall colors. But that doesn't mean this is not a good choice to accent bright wall colors too, darker ceiling and trim paint will help any room that needs a little warming up.
For a touch of class, try using a deep color such as burnt orange or dark red to accent one wall of a living room or bedroom. Having one wall a much deeper color will focus attention there and distract from other parts of the room. This can make a narrow room look larger and more inviting or make your living room the focal point of your home.
Paint Stripes on Walls
Another way to put some pop in your decor is to paint vertical stripes on your walls. This is another scheme that works well on one wall or the whole room. Stripes can make a room feel more dynamic and flashy if bright colors are used. Varied stripe widths and colors can also add pizzazz to your room, especially if you use bright, vibrant colors like red and yellow.
For a more conservative but still daring scheme use muted earthtone stripes on your walls. Add a bit of sophistication to your living room using two subtle colors of alternating stripes like biege and bone white. Wide stripes of about 10 inches, using muted colors like this, can soften the striping effect making it blend with room decor to tie the room together.
Venetian Plaster
Other ideas for painting interior walls that work well in moderations are venetian plaster and faux finishes. Venetian plaster is a spackle or mud like material that is applied to the wall to create a rough, random finish. The dry plaster is polished to create a sheen and the appearance of a solid plaster/masonry wall. This wall finish can be quite dramatic and may be best used on one wall rather than an entire room.
Faux Painting on Walls
For painting a whole room, a faux finish is probably a better choice. Faux painting finishes can include many different processes such as sponge and rag painting, dragging and frottage painting, stone and marble finishes as well as antique and distressed effects. The best finishes for walls are dragging and frottage painting. These processes can be used to create a wallpaper look with either regular or random patterns.
Sponge painting can also be a good choice for faux finishing walls, the finish pictured here is a combination of sponge painting over a frottage finish. Most sponge painting effects using one or two applications are best suited for a bathroom or kid's room. For the more grown–up areas of the house, dragging and frottage will accent decor with more sophistication.
