Room Painting Ideas-Shabby to Sharp in a Weekend

Painting your room can make it cleaner, prettier and brighter, but it doesn't have to stop there. Painting has long been known as the safer choice. It will brighten up the room without costing a great deal and without taking the added work of wallcoverings or borders. Painting your room is perhaps safer, but you don't have to settle for bland or boring even when you're going with the safer choice. Why go with bland when you can get breathtaking using just a few room painting ideas that will bring your paint job to the forefront of the room.

Your walls will be the focal point in many cases without having to put in a great many added hours or a vast sum of money. Simply by using some low cost room painting ideas that can make your new paint job look anything but safe, you create a showpiece room.

Sponge Painting Your Walls.

Using a deeper base coat, a jeweltone or other type of paint, paint the walls the darker color. This tends to work incredibly well with colors such as deep forest green or deep burgundy. Rather than using a sponge to go over your walls with your second, lighter color, try something new.

Using a paper plate and a good supply of those plastic grocery bags from your local supermarket you can have an amazing look to your walls that people will definitely notice.

You simply thin out your paint just a small amount, and lay it out on paper plates or very thinly in a paint tray. Crumple the plastic bags to make a wadded up look to them and dip them into the paint. Blot the plastic bags slightly to get the right amount of paint on the bag and lightly spounce the plastic bags over the walls to get a textured effect that is reminiscent of the sponge painting but with a much nicer overall effect. The texture look is varied and you will want to do sections. Take care to do about 6 foot square areas being certain not to leave a line effect as you do so.This this method if wall painting is one of the best and most low cost room painting ideas we've used and it offers an amazing texture to your walls without the need to pay for extra materials or specialized brushes.

If you are really interested in making it amazing, mix a small amount of gold metallic paint into the lighter over-paint. You'll need just enough of the metallic type paint to give it an tiny sparkle. Make sure that your metallic paint if of an acrylic nature, such as the acrylic metallic paints that are available to you from Delta Ceramcoat. In many cases these small tips or room painting ideas will save you a vast amount of money and give you a look that money simply can't buy.

Finish it off by stenciling or hand painting a fireplace screen or a stenciled chair rail and your room has gone from flat to fantastic in under a weekend.