Wall paintings are an integral part of interior painting, and they can be a fun way to decorate your room in a very inexpensive manner. There are a lot of unique designs which can help you enhance the looks and the overall appearance of the room. You can even decorate your kids' room with cartoons and other similar themes.
Wall Painting Basics
Before adding any of the designs to the walls of your room, you must use a basic color. There are certain rules of applying paint to the walls, even if you are painting them as a part of wall art, and these are as under.
- For decorating a room, painting it with proper paint is a good, as well as inexpensive option.
- The foremost things to do is to buy paint and get the right equipment needed to paint the room.
- The type of color is chosen as the next step. The color can be latex or oil based. The latex color on the walls is easy to apply as well as easy to clean with soap. Therefore, many people prefer the latex color. On the other hand, the oil color must be applied with due care as it requires turpentine to clean it off from the skin.
- The next step is to decide the finishing of the color. There are four types of finishing viz., gloss, semi-gloss, flat finish and satin finish.
- Next step is to choose the color and then choose the shade of the color.
- For applying the color, the right equipment must be used with the right paint. For example, you must use the right kind of brushes and rollers according to the type of color to be applied.
Now, let us take a look at the different wall painting designs. There are various ways and techniques in which you can have decorative walls, and these are as given below:
- When it comes to bedroom wall painting ideas, they often include faux painting technique to decorate the walls.
- Sponging the walls with the appropriate color can add a different look to the room. Dip the sponge or rag of cloth in paint and then randomly use it to apply paint to the walls. You have to do this over the basic color coat. If the shade of the base wall color is dark, you can sponge it with a lighter shade. While applying the color with the help of sponge or a cloth rag, you need to be creative enough to paint in a unique and different way.
- Simple stencils can be used over the base color to add a different and simple design. There are many cool wall painting designs which have stenciling done. For example, you can add stencils of cartoons in the kids' bedroom.
