5 Simple home painting tips and ideas

Here we will provide you with 5 simple home painting ideas to consider when painting any room in your home. Some of these ideas you will absolutely love, while others not so much. It basically comes down to your own personal preference and what you would like to achieve with a given area or room in your home. You may also play with a combination of two or more of these painting schemes to achieve the perfect room ambience for your situation.

After you finish this post and view the provided photos of various interior painting designs and you will know right away which ones you like and which ones you don’t, just go with your gut feeling and first instinct. Also bear in mind that each of the painting Concepts, presented here, each have different purpose and achieve completely different objectives for putting together the perfect room in your home.
Let’s begin.

1. Dark walls with light trim

Classic look and most popular by far that being said there’s not much too really say here because it is so common. Probably 70% of most rooms you will walk into will have this painting design concept and for good reason it is a nice look for most rooms. Walls do not have to be black just slightly darker than the trim and your trim doesn’t have to be white just has to be lighter than your walls just to add a little contrast between the two.

Light trim with darker walls is great for adding a cozy look and feel to any room. The larger of the two surface areas, the wall, sets the tone when you appropriately select the color to set the ambience you want for a given room. This home painting combination would be best used in circumstances where are you want to appeal to the largest number of people such as circumstances where you are showcasing a home for selling or renting.

2. All white look very little contrast

Bright white rooms can be great but must have lots of natural light to pull it off. Painting the entire room white is a quick way to freshen up a room and, make great painting ideas for beginners because there is very little time consuming cutting in trim paint between two contrasting colors, that is everything is the same color, white.

The all white look is perfect for showing off items and accessories in any bright room that you want to draw more attention to such as your prized collectibles, pillows, blankets, pictures, carpets, and so on. Take a look at the above picture of the all-white room above. Your eye will be drawn towards the contrast of the room accessories on the bed, the flooring, wall picture and even the colorful view from the window. Interestingly enough the room itself goes largely unnoticed.

Most professional designers don’t like all-white rooms but it is your best option to showcase items that are darker or have great colors. Another great advantage is that white is neutral and very flexible which allows you to select any color furnishing and accessories you wish.
One downside to white is if you have kids you have to consider the fact that white will show all those little finger prints and wear and tear quite a bit more than darker colors.

3. Feature wall

Good painting tip for the feature wall are areas in bedrooms behind the headboard, rooms with fire place mantels, TV room wall where the TV resides are great ideas or any other walls you want to draw attention. The whole purpose of a feature law is to guide the eye towards room`s best assets and features. It does a great job of highlighting a room’s existing focal points just let your rooms architecture be your guide.

To get started pick your feature wall in a given room, then choose a strong contrasting shade to give the space depth and a focal point that will draw the eye to it. If you do not want too much contrasting color just simply pick a complementary color that is a few shades darker or lighter on the feature wall. The key with a feature wall is to guide the eye towards room’s best assets without being overwhelming.

Feature walls are great home painting ideas because they give a room focus and purpose and best of all if the rest of your room walls are in good condition you only have to paint the feature wall itself to get great results making it simple and very low cost room make over.

4. Painted colored ceiling make cool painting ideas

Your ceiling represents one sixths of any given room and therefore needs to be considered for your room painting ideas. Your ceiling covers as much surface area as your floor and is just as important for setting up the desired atmosphere for a given room.

The most common look for a ceiling is flat white but a ceiling has many more other viable possibilities depending on the atmosphere you’re trying to create. For instance a painted ceiling will cast its color onto the room and everyone in it, for example a red, orange or yellow ceiling will deliver the effect of a sunset setting the mood as warm and cozy. A darker paint creates the illusion that the ceiling opens up like a dark night sky, while a light blue will give a feeling of an open sky on a beautiful day.

Some other good ideas include blue or navy blue to cast an Open Sky feeling over your room. Flat black would work will in a theater or TV room and give you a cozy vibe for a room with a bar to give you an authentic pub feel.
Good point to remember with painting ceilings is to always use a flat paint. Using any other paint sheen like a semi-gloss or gloss, in my opinion, would be far too distracting on a ceiling to be enjoyable. One final thought on painting color on ceilings is to limit it to your select theme rooms in your home and not broadly across your entire home and let the room’s main purpose or theme select the effect you want to produce thus pointing you in the direction of your color selection.

5. Lighter walls with darker trim

I think, when used properly, this is one of my favorite room painting ideas and unfortunately it`s not used hardly enough. This look adds drama to the Space and has a tendency to energize and excite because it draws the eye to all corners of the room

Painting doors and trim black can create more classy and elegant look for a room and points to a higher level of sophistication. The high contrast between light walls and dark trim well energized and excite.

Another great advantage of painting trims and doors dark or black is that it will not show dirt, fingerprints and wear and tear nearly as much as lighter-colored trims and doors. Case and point I recently converted my stair railings in my own home from a semi-gloss White to a dark stain for this very reason. It doesn’t magically repel dirt but it does hide it very well and with young kids running around

The bottom line is that dark trim, in my opinion, adds a sexy-classic look and can be used interchangeably where you would normally use white to paint trim, railings, door casings and doors. Great at hiding dirt and Imperfections while energizing the space in a Timeless fashion it truly does make a great painting idea

Conclusion

One thing is certain that these five simple home painting ideas and color combinations can easily transformer a room or a whole home into a very enjoyable space. Hopefully this post has giving you some ideas for your next home painting project.

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