| Need a new painting idea? Want to make your home | | | | like you are on vacation at the beach! |
| more sell-able? Here are 4 ways you can turn your | | | | 3. Bedroom Painting Ideas - here is how to make |
| home into a treat for the eyes. All 4 are interior | | | | your bedroom and even game rooms and home |
| painting ideas and are low-cost ways to re-decorate | | | | theatre room ceilings come alive when the lights are |
| your home. | | | | turned down or off. Picture turning out the lights at |
| 1. How To Liven Up Bathrooms or Kids Rooms With | | | | night and it looks just like someone removed the |
| Fun Tropical Designs - One of my painting customers | | | | roof and you are staring up at the night sky. |
| was always good at this. She loved to wallpaper and | | | | This is one of the neatest bedroom painting ideas to |
| did neat designs in bathrooms. Things like using wavy | | | | come along. It feels as if you were sleeping outside |
| stripes on the upper half wall. And dots on the | | | | on a warm night underneath the stars. |
| bottom half with a "fun" type of border in the middle | | | | That's exactly the look you can achieve with this |
| separating the two. | | | | painting idea. It's called being an illusionist because you |
| She made it look like the beach scene. They also had | | | | are creating the illusion that you are actually looking |
| a summer home at the lake and you got the "feel" | | | | at the nighttime sky - a night sky filled with stars |
| of it all at their main home like in their downstairs | | | | that actually twinkle! And it doesn't totally have to |
| main bathroom off from their kitchen. It was all done | | | | look like an illusion. It can be a light show with neon |
| in light, tropical, pastel type colors. | | | | like colors and spaceships and sci-fi characters. |
| 2. Kitchen Painting Ideas - How to liven up kitchens, | | | | 4. Faux painting is another great low-cost way to |
| even bathrooms and bedrooms with painted stripes. I | | | | liven rooms up. By picking up a "glazes brochure" at |
| painted stripes in an upstairs hallway bathroom for | | | | any paint store (Benjamin Moore has a really good |
| another customer. They also chose a fun type of | | | | one) you can learn how to do several basic faux |
| beach design. Yes, you guessed it, they too have a | | | | designs that can make any dinning room, bathroom, |
| beach house. It's a condo at Lake Michigan and this | | | | even a bedroom look like a million bucks. My favorite |
| seems to come out in their decorating as well. | | | | design is called "color washing" - a painting idea that |
| Again, their main home also is the one I painted | | | | looks fantastic in any home! |
| stripes in. The stripes were a light blue and a lime | | | | As a matter of fact, there are million dollar mansions |
| color. We used a carpenter's level to make the lines | | | | that have beautiful faux painted walls. By using the |
| straight and vertically level. And we used a special | | | | instructions given in the Benjamin Moore "Glazes" |
| blue painter's tape that won't "bleed" and is great for | | | | manual and by practicing on washable vinyl sheets |
| painting nice sharp-looking stripes. | | | | you will become a master faux painter in no time flat. |
| When it was finished his wife bought a shower | | | | After you master 4 or 5 basic faux designs you can |
| curtain, some porcelain containers for the sink area | | | | even attend workshops where you can learn |
| and a wastebasket. They all were colors that were | | | | advanced designs like marbling. These workshops can |
| like the stripes. The colors and the design in that | | | | be expensive but worth it once you consider how |
| bathroom make you feel good. They make you feel | | | | much per hour you can charge for your work. |