Wall designs are integral to the overall spectacle of any room. You choose your ambiance but walls would eventually define the length and breadth of your creativity (literally!). If you want your home to feel spacy, feel free to use more windows to let more natural light in and go lighter with wall colors. Making the same cozy would need darker walls, maybe a fireplace, and beautiful paintings (quite a few of them). Here, we’ll be discussing 5 wall painting techniques that will rejuvenate your home and add more structure to it. Stay put!
- Streaking
This technique involves creating streaks across the wall with a brush, either horizontally or vertically, resulting in shredded artwork. The beauty of this design works best with lighting as the engravings become emboldened and the room looks fuller than before. If you are looking for an in-home office setup, you’d like it with lighter shades of walls decorated with hanging plants or a palm in the corner which will freshen up the room. Good enough, this style of painting accentuates the space, making more room. This works fabulously in a formal setting. But be careful not to overdo it!
- Reverse Ombre
An Ombre wall is a multi-faceted feature that will create more scope for interior design in layers. The Ombre effect includes two colors, hence the features of the two vary substantially. Looking closely, the wall will have a darker color gradually turning to a lighter shade from half. This way the bottom color would compliment your furniture whereas the color above would help your bigger plants, cupboard, and paintings to shine. It is, thus, an intriguing feature. But it would take a lot of planning.
- Sponging Effect
A very lightweight, labile, and upbeat style of preparing a wall is through the sponging effect. But the crack is to figure out the perfect color to not destroy its beauty and turn it dull over time. Because a home goes through many transformations in its life, it shouldn’t be restrictive. A sponge creates marks on the wall with a different color, it may have some sheen as well, to create a painting-like effect as your all-time background. It is mostly kept subtle because then it turns too odd too soon. The aim is to create softer variations across the wall so that it doesn’t take away all the attention but still creates a vibe.
- Utility-based Color Block
The color block involves two or more colors minus the gradient effect, meaning the other color kind of blocks the previous one. Depending on the room and its primary purpose of building, you can decide on what colors you’d like to see in it. Thereafter, munch on the patterns that will suit the ambiance. If it’s a kids’ bedroom, you can do more than one color across the room, creating customized space for each little one.
Tips:
- While building a library, create different color blocks for different genres.
- Add in geometrical blocking
- Include a full-length wooden patch for a denser, fresher look
- Stencil-based Leaf Feature
Stenciling technique can involve either:
- Use designed pasties on the wall first, then paint over them with the desired color, or
- painting the wall and then patching on with colored stencils.
They come in great variety. You can go as wild as you like. It creates space for a dynamic painting-like approach to interior design if you are cautious about hotchpotch. Leaf features are great for your personal space if you appreciate more greenery around you but it may as well work for your study space, establishing a peaceful environment.
Tips:
- Paint a sheen color first, put pasties, and paint again with a different color. Once you get rid of the pasties, you’ll have the design in the glitter and the rest in a solid color.
The interior design of a room calls for a lot of planning and expertise, especially if you have a smaller space to work with, where more utility has to be generated. Empty walls are an empty canvas. You may choose to keep it blank and let your woodwork do the talking. You may even paint every wall differently depending upon what’s kept where. But wall designing is a realm of tremendous possibilities and is a loved pursuit nevertheless!