Living Room Decorating
Posted by Keegan McGavin | Filed under Home & Family
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.
The second thing is to make sure all the furniture and floor are well covered. If you can move out some furnishings, the better as it will give you more space to move around.
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 entire project can be done in a weekend and will give your room a fresh and updated look. The cost for paint and stencils is minimal when you consider the impact that the new paint job will have on your living room. You will have an entire new living room that is decorative and up to date in a weekend if you follow this simple guide for painting and incorporating decorative painting on your walls as well as your area rugs.
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