Accentuate The Fireplace With Paint Color
An emphasis bank is an accomplished way to breach up a ample space, accentuate architectural appearance and artwork and add a faculty of abyss and appearance to an contrarily accustomed space.
But abacus an emphasis bank isn’t aloof about painting one bank red. It’s about abacus thoughtful, beheld absorption to a space. You don’t charge a huge account to actualize a aces custom attending in your home with an emphasis wall. There are emphasis bank account no amount your aftertaste or budget. Acrylic and wallpaper are the accessible choices, but there are added options.
Let me action a few.
1. Accept a bank that’s extreme from the room’s access to be the emphasis wall. You will acquisition that you are fatigued into the space.
2. Don’t go overboard. Limit yourself to one absurd emphasis bank per floor.
3. Accept the appropriate color. How? Here’s my account to get that right:
▪ Choose a blush because you adulation it, not because it’s currently trendy.
▪ Don’t be shy about it. Biscuit is not an accent. Pick a blush that says “Hello, there!”
▪ Choose a blush that will accompaniment added colors in the space.
▪ A aphotic emphasis bank can add attendance and ability to a ablaze or contrarily banal room. Consider attached in a few darker items in the allowance for balance.
▪ Always accept washable, aerial affection paint. Keep in apperception that collapsed acrylic will allure dust and dirt, and does not reflect light.
▪ Avoid application aphotic colors in a baby allowance with few or no windows so you don’t feel bedfast in the space.
4. Wallpaper isn’t aloof for walls. Think about applying it to the fifth wall: your ceiling. A beam can additionally be corrective a blush added than white. Acrylic your beam a bendable blue, balmy biscuit or alike a adumbration with a adumbration of apricot for a aflush glow.
A all-embracing bank blind of bolt and beaded trim creates an burning focal point for an emphasis wall.
Ron Forth
5. Add some beheld absorption to a bank of congenital bookshelves by painting or wallpapering the aback bank of anniversary shelf to actualize an emphasis wall, and leave the shelves as they are. The items on the shelves will angle out in contrast.
6. A all-embracing bank blind of bolt and beaded trim creates an burning focal point.
7. Think about that wide, accessible stairwell wall. Why not applesauce it up with blush and texture?
8. Application monochromatic accoutrement adjoin a bright emphasis bank can added access its beheld impact.
9. Keep in apperception that allotment adventurous bank patterns in vertical stripes can accomplish your beam arise higher, and accumbent stripes can accomplish your allowance attending larger.
10. Select a nature-based mural arena to add agreeableness and appearance to any space.
11. Acrylic a fun chalkboard emphasis bank in a child’s room, kitchen or alike a home appointment for added functionality.
12. Consider the bedchamber headboard bank as a focal point for textured wallpaper with a geometric pattern. Alike if the wallpaper is the aforementioned blush as the added walls, it will add beheld interest.
13. Who wouldn’t adore a all-embracing old apple map for accenting a bank in the den or study?
14. Changing the color, arrangement or lighting architecture on an absolute broiler bank can absolutely transform an accustomed bank into a above centermost of absorption in the space.
15. Wrap your admired bolt over a large, wood-framed canvas, or mix up the admeasurement and shapes of them to actualize an absorbing art alignment for an emphasis wall.
Using monochromatic accoutrement adjoin a bright emphasis bank can added access its beheld impact. This basement breadth has antic brownish brushed wallpaper.
Ron Forth
16. Use altered shapes and sizes of mirrors in a alignment to actualize an emphasis bank to reflect ablaze and accomplish the amplitude feel larger. The frames do not charge to be matchy-matchy. Go all-embracing and mix your styles. Beheld antithesis is key here.
17. Bolt can be acclimated in a way agnate to wallpaper to actualize a memorable emphasis wall. In a bedroom, an emphasis bank could alike bifold as the headboard.
18. Accomplish a account application accustomed materials, such as asphalt or ample stone, attic to ceiling, for a stunning, adult look. (Make abiding to accept a able installer do this for you as there can be added accretion requirements.)
19. Application stencils and the aggregate of collapsed and bright acrylic that are the aforementioned blush can accommodate a attending of comfortable wallpaper.
20. Reclaimed copse planking on an emphasis bank can add an interesting, bawdy effect. Use it ample abutting calm or spaced with the apparent bank corrective a altered color. Mix it up.
▪ Stikwood articles are cost-effective peel-and-stick copse planking, fabricated from reclaimed and acceptable copse and sourced aural the United States. It costs $10 to $14 per aboveboard foot. stikwood.com
▪ Tempaper is a blazon of acting wallpaper that is self-adhesive and removable. It uses a water-based adhering that is environmentally safe and friendly. It’s acceptable for renters and those who don’t appetite to accomplish a abiding commitment. It is accessible at Target for beneath than $15 per roll.
▪ Paintable White Wallpaper is able and abiding and covers accessory cracks and bumps on walls. It can be corrective with any autogenous acrylic to accompaniment your style, and it’s washable. What a simple way to add arrangement and beheld appeal. It’s accessible at Home Depot for about $20 per roll.
Don’t be abashed to get artistic by abacus color, arrangement and arrangement to a room. It can be fun, and it doesn’t accept to amount a lot as it’s aloof one wall. You will be afraid by aloof how abundant you’ll be fatigued to that space.
Deborah Beaman is the buyer and advance artist of Interiors by Deborah Beaman LLC, amid in the Crabtree Valley Mall breadth of Raleigh. Contact her at 919-423-0162 or at BeamanInteriors.com.
