Saturday, April 09, 2011
When approaching your room remodeling project, start by choosing an inspiration piece and decorate around it. Become a design trailblazer by choosing an eco-friendly wallpaper print, retro vase, bold paint color, brightly colored armchair or an eye-catching piece of wood furniture.
While using your inspiration piece as your focal point, keep permanent fixtures and existing furniture in mind when formalizing your new vision. If you are giving your dining room a makeover, consider the dining room set, lighting fixture, built-in cabinets or any other items that may not mix with your new decorating scheme.
Even if you don't want to make monumental changes to your room, you can quickly and easily incorporate paint and wallpaper to breathe new life into your home. If you want subtle changes to a room, you can keep the current paint color and add a new wallpaper borders or wallpaper murals to just one wall; with some nice finishing touches, you will have a new room on your hands. High traffic areas like entry ways, kitchens and bathrooms get a lot of use and can always use a fresh look or a touch up. Many wallpaper and paint brands now carry easy-to-clean products, which make your decorating decisions easier and less intimidating.
If you are inspired by a particular theme, such as creating a contemporary style, you could decorate one wall with wallpaper or accent mural, and then finish the other walls with a complementing paint color. By choosing a bold print, or mural you can achieve your desired look and have fun jazzing up the room with other fashionable accents. If you enjoy wine tasting, consider creating a Tuscan countryside theme and add nice dark wood furniture to create the ambiance of an Italian villa.
To achieve your desired look without decorative interior painting in Wilmette, you can effortlessly coordinate wallpaper and paint to your room and the results will be stunning. Wallpaper and wallpaper borders can set the overall mood of a room with design and color. Bright, colorful prints will brighten a room that lacks natural sunlight, while a dramatic print can provide a formal, more sophisticated feeling. Wallpaper can subtly change the perceived size and dimensions of the room, making it look bigger, taller, smaller or cozier. Because wallpaper and wallcoverings are available in so many colors, textures, patterns and styles (not to mention easy to install), they have a place in every room in the house.
If you choose the paint route, keep in mind that the goal of choosing wall color is to find a relatively neutral shade that goes with everything that you love and will still look good when you add more layers Before you start the interior painting process, make sure that you stay flexible since the outcome might not be exactly what you want. If it means that you may have to re-paint the room to achieve your desired look, then so be it. Decorating professionals recommend painting a small portion of the wall with the chosen color to make sure that the color works with the room. The end result will be worth the extra work and be enjoyed for years to come!


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