Painting Your Bedroom, Choose The Right Colors or Color Theme

Dec 31st, 2009 Posted in Bedroom, Painting | no comment »

Painting your bedroom is an inexpensive way to get a whole new look, however some people find it to be an overwhelming task to choose a color or type of paint. Many simply stare at the thousands of color swatches in the store and then walk away confused without ever picking out a color! If you want to paint your bedroom, the first step is to select a range of colors or color theme. That way, when you go into the store you can narrow down your selection of color swatches to those in that general color shade.

If you want your bedroom to evoke a certain mood, some colors have shown to be better at evoking certain emotions or moods. Calming colors are soft colors – blues, greens, and lavenders in a muted shade. Anything too vivid or bright will not be calming. If you are decorating to have a calming effect these colors go quite well together. You could punch it up a bit with some brighter accents in the same colors but with a different tone. I like a sage green for the walls with some light sky blues and lavenders sprinkled around the rooms bedding, wall coverings and flooring can be a solid color to keep the calm mood going. Accent with candles and perhaps a table top waterfall.

On the other hand, you might want to paint your bedroom so that it energizes. Maybe you want to wake up in the morning ready to go! Then you might want to try bright colors like reds and yellows with maybe a bit of orange thrown in. I love the look of deep red walls even if it may take several coats to cover! Yellow and orange make a nice color combination – maybe a bit 70’s so you could do a nice retro design with these colors. Tone it down a bit by using brown as an accent. Of course, you can always use red with black and white for a classically contemporary look. And there’s always a white room (bedding, walls, and floors) with bright red, yellow, blue and orange accents for a mid century feel that will liven up the place.

For a more elegant type of bedroom, you may opt for tans of off whites. These can match very well with some darker, rich colors like maroon, gold, or even black. Use some deep jewel tones to create a romantic but calming feeling. Gray and brown can be a nice modern color palette – use deep colors not light and you will be surprised how this can give the room a cozy feel that is a bit more modern.

Another choice you may have to make is if you want to use traditional paints or get an effect on your walls with special effect paints. You can add texture to your walls with paints that have texture build in, or use special paint to get the look of marble or old world plaster.
Some of these use solvent based glazes and others have specially made paint just for that particular look you want. A trip to your local Home Depot will find these paints as well as free classes on how to apply them.

       

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How to Lighting a Large Room

Nov 11th, 2009 Posted in Home Decoration, Painting | no comment »

lighting-a-large-roomI am sure you are agree that the window will bring light into a room better, but if you have limited natural light you can illuminate a room with a variety of other ways. Things such as wall color and accent colors can add the illusion of lighter, brighter space, and well placed lighting equipment can really enhance the brightness factor in the room.

Nature Lighting
Starting with natural lighting. Make sure that your windows clean and use a cloth that does not block the light. The light-colored strips of cloth and work well. Hang the mirror on the wall opposite the window to help strengthen the natural light that has come into the room.

To illuminate the entire room, track lighting and concealed lighting is a reasonable option. Track light can lighting throughout the room or directed at a specific area of the room, while concealed lighting installed flush in the ceiling, even layer to light in the room. Naturally choose the most delicate effects of light, white incandescent light bulbs in the lamp. Effective way to brighten a room either subtly or dramatically is the light bouncing off the ceiling. To do this you can use wall sconces, lamps hidden in the crown molding or even high light. The lamp is also a huge task to provide lighting for reading or working.

Use a specific color to create light
By painting your walls in pale colors such as neutral or pastel colors, you allow the light to bounce from the walls make the room look brighter. Wallpaper by keeping a simple pattern and cover the floor beside the light, you increase the amount of light that moves around the room. This neutral background also gives you the ideal opportunity to decorate the room. Dark woods and fabrics will really stand as their pale color contrasts walls and floors, and in turn they make the room look brighter.

Accessories to brighten any room
Adding gloss material into the room through the accents and accessories you will go far toward keeping the room light and airy feeling. By combining furniture with shiny surfaces like glass or metal table space will be full of light and movement of light bouncing off the walls to the furniture in the mirror to the ceiling to the floor and back to the wall. Adding silver and crystal accessories will further increase the energy of light in the room.

Reflective tiles around the fireplace to help lighten the focal point of a room. Mirror surface can also be strategically placed light sources in addition to reflecting light back into the room. Then select a few of your favorite artwork or brightly patterned area rugs, and attractive accent color or two of them for use in pillows, vases, lamps and centerpieces. Adding plants and flowers for the room can also help increase the brightness for each room.

       

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Rust Synthetic Metals

Oct 24th, 2009 Posted in Painting | no comment »

corrosive fence paintFeatures Rust
Technically are synthetic resins and alkyd anti-corrosive pigments such as zinc chromate, which prevent the oxidation of ferrous surfaces. Simply put, it’s a sort of background for metals. This prevents rust bloom prior to application of finish paint. This can be synthetic enamel.
Only applies virgin metal surfaces, ie without previous coats. The colors are very different, choosing the most similar to the final paint tone to avoid the application of too many hands to cover.

Application Mode
Can you paint with a brush, brush roller or spray. The maximum dilution in the application with hand tools is 10% of turpentine, gas tanks can reach 50% thinner. Just apply one or two coats of this material as base metals subsequently painted.

       

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Metal Oxide Converter

Oct 24th, 2009 Posted in Painting | no comment »

Metal Oxide ConverterThis is a paint capable of withstanding even in areas where synthetic enamel oxidized not join or already be too late to apply a Rust. Their treatment is the same as the Rust. Only a hand applied before glazing. We can find different colors to avoid excessive enamel hands to coat. Something essential before applying a converter is removed from the surface and loose parts as much rust as possible using the knife and sandpaper.

There are also other materials such as flux, which is an acid that removes the rust of metals. Following the application with a brush, rinsed with water and after 24 hours can be painted with the converter, or Rust.

       

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