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By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.When it comes to easy updates, nothing quite beats the power of a smart living room paint idea. Whether it’s a quick cover-up, complete room redo or a clever visual trick that’s required, paint has it covered.
There are plenty of ways that you can give your living room ideas a style update with paint, whether bold and bright or calm and neutral.
‘Paint is an easy way to transform your living room without breaking the bank,’ says Justyna Korczynska, senior designer at Crown . ‘Rather than paint an entire wall, why not stencil metallic or textured paint in stripes, squares or circles onto a simple base colour to add areas of drama and interest? Or painting the wall behind your room’s focal point, be it a sofa or a desk, is another great and easy way of creating separate zones within a space. '
'Alternatively, consider painting skirting boards and window frames to match the wall colour, as another simple but stylish touch for the living room.’
Living room paint ideas
Not sure where to begin? Our easy living room paint ideas offer something for all skill levels, from easy paint ideas that can be done in a couple of hours to room updates that can be tackled over a weekend…so why not grab some paint and a roller and get stuck in...
1. Add bold blocks of colour
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For rooms that lack a focal point, living room paint ideas are a clever way of creating one without involving the cost or bother of undertaking structural work. Paint can be used to trick the eye, draw attention to key areas or create faux architectural details that give a plain room extra oomph.
Paint a bold block of colour on one wall to create a living room feature wall idea in a plain living room. A simple panel painted in a contrast shade creates a colourful backdrop for a display area, with open shelving styled up with artwork, greenery and decorative pieces.
Opt for an off-centre arrangement to create extra visual interest, then fill in empty wall space with wall-hung plants and artwork.
2. Try a half-painted wall
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Give white living room ideas a colour lift by painting walls in a half-and-half paint treatment. Less hassle than painting an entire room, painting just the lower portion of walls gives the added benefit of introducing a warmer, brighter or more dramatic colour into your scheme without overwhelming the space completely.
Painting the lower section of wall in your darker ‘hero’ colour can help to ground the scheme and provides a contrast backdrop for furniture, such as a sofa or sideboard. While having a lighter colour at the top will help to create a sense of height, which is useful for small living room ideas.
Hang artwork that crosses the paint line, so that the paint effect looks intentional and part of a well-thought-out scheme. Opt for mix-and-match frames to provide visual variety and choose colours that complement furniture and soft furnishings.
3. Get creative with a chalkboard backdrop
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In a family den or play room, have some fun and paint a panel or feature wall with black chalkboard paint. It’ll provide an area where little ones can get creative with drawings and doodles or could be used as an oversized family memo board in a study area or WFH space with notes and reminders easily chalked on.
4. Try tonal stripes for a chic look
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Make a feature of living room alcove ideas by painting them in a bright standout colour. A contrast colour makes a brilliant backdrop for display pieces, with art and ornaments ‘popping’ against a dark or brighter background.
For a fun look, try painting the alcove inserts in a mix of tonal colours, going from dark to light for an ombré effect. Alternatively, try mixing it up with assorted squares in a mix of toning shades to create more of a random patchwork effect.
5. Add wow with a diagonal design
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Create a modern, mid-century vibe by painting feature walls in bold diagonal blocks of colour. The perfect backdrop for a retro scheme, choose colours that echo furniture and soft furnishings to create a more considered effect.
Keep it simple by opting for just one or two contrast colours and with the colour restricted to just one corner, rather than allover. Create your diagonal lines using painters tape to give a crisp edge. Position your longest line first and then create your second area of colour going off from this. You could even take the colour onto a section of ceiling for added effect.
6. Opt for ombré-stripe walls
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Perk up a plain living room by going for chic ombré effect stripes in warm peachy tones. Opting for a graduated wash of colour rather than sharp lines and hard edges creates a softer effect that feels more relaxed and easy on the eye.
Choose a tonal palette of colours with varying depths to achieve this easy ombré effect. For a natural gradation of colour, paint the lower section of walls in the darkest shade, the mid section in a mid tone, then use a paler hue towards the top of the walls for an airy feel. Leave the edges soft and ragged rather than clean and crisp for a subtler look.
7. Combine blocks and stripes to add edge
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Highlight a WFH space or brighten up a dreary living room corner with a bold colour block treatment. Opt for a mid-toned colour as your starting point, painting a wide panel to act as a backdrop for a desk of large item of furniture. Then add a second narrower stripe of contrast colour in the adjoining corner to add definition. For extra effect, try leaving a border of crisp white around each block of colour.
A bold navy is a perfect partner for neutral living room ideas as shown above.
8. Colour drench the room
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For a bold, immersive scheme that is super-easy to create with paint, opt for a single dark shade allover to give a dramatic colour-drenched effect.
This works well with green living room ideas and is ideal for a drab living room that needs livening up. Colour drenching is an instant mood changer that will add warmth, colour and atmosphere.
The key with colour drenching is to create continuous colour on all surfaces, so when painting the room, take colour from walls to skirting boards, doors, trims and even ceiling if you feel brave enough. Don’t worry about dark colours making a room feel small - continuous colour can help to stretch a room’s size, blurring the edges with leaving no harsh breaks in colour.
9. Showcase a gallery wall
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Open-plan living rooms can sometimes feel quite vast, so clever tricks that help to break up the space into smaller zones are a great way of making living areas feel more snug.
Try a dramatic colour-block effect to create a backdrop for decorating the wall behind a sofa. Opt for a muted, neutral shade as the anchor point, edged by a band of darker colour all-round to add definition.
Hang a gallery of artwork to break up the lines and bring a pop of pattern and extra colour.
10. Fake a ‘built-in’ look with paint
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Use paint to upgrade basic flatpack furniture and create a sleek, built-in look. Match furniture paint with wall colour and paint both to create an uninterrupted swathe of colour that gives the impression of bespoke built-in furniture rather than freestanding pieces. Add clip-on lights and conceal the cables to further the 'bespoke' effect.
11. Use colour blocking to break up walls
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Create a colour-block wall of uplifting colour by using a tonal palette separated by a white border. Think vertically to add height to the room, using blocks of pastel blue and green and dividing the area with an off-centre stripe of white.
The use of white for the dividing line mirrors the skirting boards and ceilings to create a frame of colour to make the coloured blocks feel all the more impactful.
Coordinate the look with matching soft furnishings and accessories. Choose a living room colour scheme to suit your own personal tastes to make the look totally unique for your home.
12. Paint bespoke storage to uniform a feature wall
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A savvy living room storage ideas and great way to save space is by having bespoke cabinetry built to fit, meaning you can use the whole wall for storage – from floor to ceiling.
A creative way to make this a feature wall which, despite serving all your needs, look like one uniformed wall is painting it all one statement shade, as shown in this grey living room. Including skirting boards and fireplace surrounds, paint the whole wall in the same shade to make the look feel seamless.
13. Transform an empty fireplace
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If your living room features a fireplace that is purely ornamental, i.e it's not a working fire, why not really show it off with a splash of vibrant colour.
The injection of colour creates the ideal backdrop to display an array of home accessories, from candles to photo frames. In this smart living room the yellow accent colour is used on the walls either side of the chimney breast to coordinate with the painted fireplace.
14. Stack tonal shades
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Add interest by using two different colours to create a divide without having to put up a picture rail. In this pink living room the already decorative living room wall panelling ideas is giving a sense of division thanks to the banding colours painted one on top of the other. Use shades that work well together but allow enough of a difference to make a statement.
15. Make it matching
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There are no rules that say just because bold or bright colours are trending, that you have to use them to create a fashionable feel for your living room.
As this stunning cosy living room idea demonstrates sometimes simple can be more powerful.
A subtle mink shade of paint on the walls coordinates perfectly with the textiles and furniture pieces within this room to create a cohesive colour scheme that feels sophisticated and serene.
16. Define the fire surround in an accent colour
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Paint your fire surround in a bright, happy shade and top it with colourful accessories to make it the focal point of your living room. To take the colour inject up a level try painting logs in an assortment of complimentary shades, as shown in this bespoke living room fireplace ideas.
17. Add a dramatic painted stripe to a living room
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A new twist on the living room feature wall ideas right here: a band of colour running around the centre of the room like a belt between jeans and a tee! Take the stripe through anything that it touches too, as interrupting the bold strip of contrasting colour would lessen its impact.
Little Greene's impressive example contrasts a striking blue with a bold white band.
18. Frame a knock-through with a painted stripe
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With open-plan living rooms growing in popularity there are often two spaces merged into one that you might like to give a slightly different purpose to.
While it makes sense to paint the two spaces in the same colour, to provide a sense of continuity you could clearly define the two rooms by adding accents on architectural points of interest, such as archways. This simple act subtly zones distinct living ares within the same open-plan space.
Given it's not a huge area of paint coverage you can change the colour seasonally, or when you switch up accent accessories within the room without huge expense.
Using a spot colour to define two connected-but-separate spaces is a fun way to inject some colour too. Signal the divide with an accent colour and tie the colour in through accessories like cushions and ceramics.
A graphic piece of art is often a great place to look for a fail-safe palette, picking out shades that will add an extra dimension to your room.
19. Use accent colours to highlight features
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Celebrate features rather than try to hide them under a uniformed wall colour. An accent colour border will draw attention to lovely period door frames, skirting boards and picture rails. Picking out key architectural details can help to add depth to your living room and create interest.
Even if the space is devoid of features, you could fake a feature with clever paint ideas. No skirting board? Simply paint a two-tone feature on the wall to create the illusion of its presence.
20. Opt for a nature-inspired palette
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Not all hero colours are bold attention-seekers. This soft tone that hovers between brown and grey is a quiet game-changer that'll make a room look warmer and more sophisticated at a brushstroke.
Plus, it plays well with other colours, so you can indulge pretty much any whim when it comes to accents.
Sandstone blends with other browns, as well as greys for a smooth mix. Brown neutrals can be sludgy and dull unless you cut through them with the right accents. We recommend blue and mimosa yellow.
21. Work a whitewash
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Brilliant white paint has a transformative effect on interiors. Use it on walls and ceilings and it will make a star of every non-white piece of furniture and accessory in your living room.
White is a wholly selfless paint shade, providing all the light and energy while reflecting the attention elsewhere. In this coastal living room, as the white sofa recedes, pictorial and striped upholstery and fabrics are brought into sharp relief along with myriad accessories on shelving and walls.
Painted tongue-and-groove walls and cupboards give this scheme additional coastal kudos. Opt for the best white paint to choose the right shade for your walls.
22. Use white to brighten
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Period properties are favoured for their characterful details, such as original wooden beams and low ceilings. While these elements can ooze charm they can sometimes make the room feel quite dark, and therefore feel smaller.
A great way to combat traditional design features from encroaching on the space is to brighten with a splash of white paint. Painting with precision allows the beams to remain untouched, retaining their original aesthetic. A bright white paint on the ceiling helps to keep the space feeling as airy as possible.
23. Anchor an alcove with grey
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Grey is the new neutral. Use it in a living room where its rather understated nature allows it to introduce warmth without shouting at your visitors.
Start with your chimney breast and take the paint into alcoves too where it will make a feature of stripped wood shelves and your book collection.
This scheme has bravely taken grey down to the skirting and up to the ceiling too, leaving just the floor – in stripped pine – to provide a contrast. Bring in wood furniture and leather and cow-hide style upholstery to complement the shelving.
24. Create a barely there backdrop
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Consider transforming a section of a white living room with country cream. Floor-to-ceiling shelving and storage is the perfect vehicle for this classic shade – smart fitted bookshelves painted in the same shade occupy two walls.
Paint the architrave and panelling too, as well as the back of shelves for a truly cohesive feel. Tones of teal and burnt orange are the perfect accompaniment to cream, so bring them in aplenty on cushions, lighting and upholstery.
25. Paint a feature wall
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If you're not too keen on the bold-is-beautiful school of decorating, pick out a single feature in your living room and treat it to your favourite shade.
This warm pink doesn't overwhelm because it's restricted to one area only – the chimney breast. Pick a shade that will work with your fireplace and integrate it into your room by using the same shade on a single piece of furniture and for a small selection of accessories.
26. Be bold with abstract black and white
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Plan carefully and an all-over white decorating scheme doesn't have to be plain. A white backdrop provides the opportunity to be more adventurous with bold patterns and signature furniture, allowing you to create a living room that is chic, modern and adventurous.
The whitewashed walls and white furniture featured in this living room work together because of the touches of black. Look for fabrics with a subtle modern black-and-white design that will break up a run of pure white.
27. Balance dark colours
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Dark paint can be scary; but it can bring a real sense of character and sophistication to your living area.
In this blue and grey living room idea, the heady mix of textures and tones makes for a luxuriously atmospheric space.
28. Unite shades from the same colour palette
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Give your space a thoroughly modern update using a palette of gentle pastels in unexpected places. Paint a door frame and door in a sundae shade and keep the rest of the wall space white to stop the scheme from looking too sickly sweet. If you have two interlinking rooms, create harmony by repeating key colours across both, but on different surfaces.
29. Paint the whole wall
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Choose versatile teal for a living space that’s both sophisticated and on-trend. Paint the walls, skirting boards and fireplace in one shade to give your space a truly cohesive feel. Team this classic shade with mid-century modern pieces and interesting artwork to offset the green-blue colour.
Teal living rooms pop with bright white and its colour wheel match is coral.
It's a classic that works with nearly any style, from contemporary to traditional.
30. Create an artistic watercolour finish
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Embrace your inner artist, or better still pay a skilled decorator to take the pressure off. Use brushstroke patterns to add an artistic flourish to any scheme.
Don't be afraid to experiment with innovative paint techniques. Choose your favourite colour and work with shades from the same palette to create a graduated effect along one feature wall. Think about including inky dyed textiles with soft blurry edges and ombre, watercolour washes for a painterly effect.
What colours are on trend for living rooms?
There's no denying that grey living room ideas are still the most popular mainstream colour choice. It has become the neutral of choice, replacing cream and beige for the modern home.
However, the most popular colours are darker, brooding hues of blue. Thanks to the presence of Instagram we can see inside others' homes to gain a better feel for what is trending – giving homeowners a sense of braveness with bolder colour choices.
As a result the most fashionably on-trend colour for 2021 decorating living rooms is most visibly a rich navy blue.
Which colour will you be using in your next decorating scheme?
45 Creative Wall Paint Ideas and Designs — RenoGuide
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Marj Licos
Splashing on a fresh coat of paint is the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to refresh your home interiors. Aside from just painting the walls, you can also use them as the room’s accent or décor. With a little artistry and a lot of imagination, your walls can be highlights of the room or the house! Here are some easy DIY wall paint ideas and designs that will instantly transform the wall from humdrum to fabulous. Check these out and get ready for some painting!
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Random RectanglesCool, modern, eye-catching. This easy-to-create wall paint feature will complement your modern home interiors and don’t need creative or artistic skills to complete. Just pick your favourite colour palette and paint away random rectangles in different shades.
2. Nordic Blues
Blue-grey shades are typical of the cool, modern and minimalist interiors of Scandinavian designs. Use several shades of Nordic blues to cover blocks of your wall. Use painter’s tape to achieve clean straight lines.
3. Honeycomb
Perk up a plain white wall with several shades of honeycomb. The randomly placed hexagons create a fun and funky vibe to the room. Use colours that complement the room’s interiors and use – brighter shades for kid’s bedroom, more toned-down for the living room or dining area.
4.
Turquoise OmbreBring in the bright and cool of the ocean with this turquoise ombre wall paint. Match the colourful wall with sea-themed accents, glass and gold. The light-toned wood flooring works to soften the glare.
5. Gingham Style
Painting squares can’t be that hard! This gingham-inspired wall feature gives the room an idyllic charm and rustic vibe. The key to a successful gingham wall feature is in carefully studying the shades, planning the painting and keeping the lines straight.
6. Grey Diagonals
This is one of the easiest wall paint ideas and designs for an accent wall. Upgrade a blank wall into this sleek and attractive wall accent. Painting a plain grey wall with diagonal lines of different thickness and shades creates a trendy and upbeat vibe. Perfect for modern minimalist homes.
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Elegant LinesThe headboard wall is the ideal accent wall of a bedroom. This modern bedroom highlighted the wall with a dark shade of peacock green amongst a predominantly white interior. Black thin lines are added to create a modern chic look.
8. Orange Burst
Easily dress up a narrow blank wall with this orange burst paint feature. Take your favourite colour, then create several shades of it by gradually adding white paint. An easy and fun way to add a pop of colour to an otherwise gloomy corner.
9. Vertical Divide
Sleek, modern and creative. Easily upgrade your interiors with this three-tone vertical divide paintwork. The grey shades complement the modern minimalist room, while the perky yellow serves as the accent colour. Add yellow décor pieces to pick up the colour theme.
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3D BoxesAdd fun to your room with some 3D wall effect. This three-tone 3D box design is easy to accomplish. Draft the lines and mark the colours so you won’t get confused. Using painter’s tape will hasten the process and ensure straight lines.
11. Circle Ombre
This circle ombre paintwork is perfect for when you just need a fun feature to dress up a blank wall. Draw a huge circle on the wall and divide into several vertical segments. Starting with the original paint colour, paint the middle part. Dilute the paint with white and work your way painting the outer segments. Remove the painters’ tape dividing the sections.
12. Charming Check
Fun, charming, unique. This blue-themed check wall feature complements the coastal home interiors. But you can make your own check design and put in on your wall! Pick your favourite colour and create three more complementary shades to complete your check design.
13. Colourful Geometrics
This bright and colourful geometric design works for homes and is best for rooms where you need a lot of positive energy flowing, like the living room or the family room. Its bright colours are captivating, while the diagonal strokes give the design a dynamic look.
14. Flower Accent
Brighten up a forgettable corner of your home with this charming and fascinating wall flower accent. You can go as bright as you want by using red or orange shades, or as cool as this yellow on grey rose accent.
15. Random Lines
Eliminate blank and boring walls easily with some ingenuity and a free weekend to work on your wall. This enthralling two-tone paint wall accent is fun, modern and original. Its random lines and colour blocking aspect effectively delivers drama and character to the room.
16. Pastel Triangles
Fun, cheerful and bright! One of the most festive wall paint ideas and designs. Pastel triangles on the wall will make you think of confetti, party and excitement. Ideal wall feature for children’s bedroom, the playroom, the family room or even the kitchen!
17. Blended Grey
When you want a plain grey wall, but you also want it to be exciting and unique! This blended grey wall is surely captivating and extraordinary. To achieve the cloud-like effect, use two tones of grey. Paint the lower part of the wall with the darker tone and the top with the lighter one. Use both colours in the middle part, using quick bold strokes to get the blended effect.
18. Cross-stitched Accent
Unique, nostalgic and beautiful. This wall feature will take a lot of painstaking and detailed work to get right.
But with the right attention to details and a lot of patience, it is possible. A great surprise or gift of labour for someone who’s into cross-stitching.
19. Paint Drips
You’ll never have to worry about the drips, the overpainting and the mess with this design. Drips are encouraged and the messy result delivers a beautiful and arresting wall feature. For smaller rooms, you can do one layer of paint applied on the top of the wall, right next to the ceiling and dripped randomly.
20. Vertical Stripes
Stripes are classic, neat and a staple in almost any design. Adding some black vertical stripes to a plain white wall will instantly transform it into this chic and elegant wall accent. From a forgettable foyer to a stylish one.
21. Sunset Ombre
Capture the magic of sunset with this incredible sunset ombre wall design.
Warm, bright, mesmerising. The key to achieving the seamless ombre wall is the careful blending of colours. Start with sky blue from the top, follow with blush, then with warm honey orange, and end with salmon at the bottom. Blend colours between shades.
22. Blue Mountains
Relaxing, cool and fascinating. Adding a tranquil wall décor such as this blue mountain feature evokes peace and quiet into a room. Best for bedrooms, bath or the music room. Using several shades of blue-green paint, draw and paint the dips and peaks of your mountains. You can even recreate a favoured mountain range!
23. Dividing Diamonds
Adding pizzazz to a plain wall is easy and fun! Instead of abruptly cutting off from one colour to another, transition by adding these dividing diamonds. This wall transitioned from blue to white, and to divide the two blocks of colour, several shades of blue and white diamonds were added in between.
Fun, attractive and charming!
24. Prints and Patterns
Sleek, light and neutral. This is the perfect wall accent for the modern minimalist home. Using painters’ tape, divide the wall into triangles. Working with each triangle, randomly paint them with either grey or white, or create different patterns like stripes, fish tales, slants, starts, circles, and whatever you fancy!
25. Connecting Dots
Give your plain white wall a fun upgrade with this dots and lines design. Easy to create but might take you some time to complete. This is easier with a sharpie. Just create random dots a few inches from each, then draw lines to connect the dots.
26. Watercolour Effect
Arresting, creative, unforgettable! Pick some of your favourite colours to use for this colourful wall accent. Diluting acrylic paint with water will give you this fascinating watercolour effect.
Keep the rest of the room muted so as not to overwhelm the overall design.
27. Rainbow Wall
Everyone loves rainbows! Adding a cheery rainbow to your home will instantly uplift its mood and ambience. This accent wall highlights a basic rainbow arch on white. The colours more than provide the vividness that the all-white room needs.
28. Bright Colour Blocks
Brighten up a gloomy corner or decorate a blank wall with some blocks of bright colour paint. This plain white section of the house is turned bright and interesting by just adding blocks of red, orange and yellow. Not artistic skills required, just keep your lines straight with the help of painters’ tape.
29. Grunge Watercolour
Don’t be afraid to play with your walls and colours! This grunge watercolour wall speaks of an edgy, free and creative personality.
To create the look, use acrylic paint, pick your favourite colour and dilute with water to achieve the fading effect. No rules for this design, just have fun.
30. Origami Accent
Minimalist, colourful, fun. This bright and eye-catching origami wall accent is all you need to perk up a room! Its sleek lines and minimalist design are perfect for the modern minimalist home – just the right amount of colour and fun but without the clutter and fuss.
31. Graded Ombre
Want to do the ombre wall but can’t achieve the seamless blend? Try this graded ombre – the easier and simpler version of the delightful wall paint trick. Instead of going for the seamless, you’ll have to do the transition in segments. Just add colour or dilute the paint as you go from one panel to the next.
32. Dripping Mountains
Striking, colourful, inventive.
This streamlined version of the mountains mural is brighter yet more subtle. Using several pastel shades of acrylic, dilute the paint with water to achieve the right drippy consistency. Fill large syringes and carefully work your way making mountain ranges across the wall.
33. Rainbow Splatter
This is another fun project to upgrade a blank wall into something colourful and exciting. Very minimal artistic skills required! Just pick out the colour theme you want; it could be several shades of one colour, a three-colour combi or this explosive rainbow collection.
34. Pastel Geometrics
Charming, understated, elegant. This colourful wall of muted pastel geometrics is easy to create. Using painters’ tape, map the wall out with random shapes, then fill each one with a different pastel colour. Mix some neutral shades with the pretty pastels to get the classy elegant look.
35. Into the Woods
With the right technique, painting a forest on your wall isn’t as hard as you would imagine. This green forest wall accent is easy to create. Start from the top background paint, then work your way down making tree silhouettes and adding more of the dark green paint as you go.
36. Red Grunge Fade
Edgy, fascinating, extraordinary. This rust-red grunge paint wall accent brings in an edgy and vivacious character to the room. The awesome way to disrupt the perfect orderliness of the modern minimalist interiors. After painting a section of the wall, press a wet rug to the newly painted section to create the grungy effect.
37. Hand Drawn Herringbone
Funky and creative, minimalist and attractive. Add a fun and trendy vibe to the room by creating this easy-to-do hand drawn herringbone wall accent.
You’ll need a lot of patience working your way across the wall, but the work is simple enough. This is the only time you’re allowed to draw on the wall!
38. Colourful Fish Scales
This fish scales wall paint feature will not only dress up your wall, but it will also bring fun and excitement to the room. Adding some party colours in fun shapes will instantly transform a humdrum wall into this colourful and gorgeous feature. Best for children’s bedroom, the nursery, the family room or even for outdoor hubs.
39. Unfinished Half
This may look like you’ve run out of paint, but it is actually a fun and quirky wall paint feature. This unique wall accent is a great conversation starter and is one of the easiest to accomplish. The streamlined elegant look underlines the fun and creative whimsy of the wall feature.
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Elegant MinimalistSome of the best wall paint ideas and designs actually use a sharpie. This elegant and classy wall accent is very easy to achieve! The first step is to paint the wall with a dark shade of colour. Once the paint has dried, use a gold sharpie pen to create the thin elegant lines. Done!
41. Patterned Pastels
Funky, bright, exciting! Eliminate boring walls with some fun pastel prints and patterns. Design patterns and options are endless, just use your imagination! This colourful concoction of dots, shapes and patterns results to an electrifying fun wall.
42. Floral Doodle
Express yourself and showcase your art on your wall! This amazing floral doodle wall feature is elegant and astounding as it is in black and white. You can also opt for the more attention-grabbing finish by adding in colours.
43.
Vertical LinesSubtle, elegant, modern. Adding random vertical lines to your plain wall will instantly give it a more modern and exciting look. The white vertical slants on grey background wall accent give this bedroom a contemporary yet stylish finish.
44. Painted Wood Planks
Love wood planks on your walls but would also like some colour? This painted wood planks wall gives a fascinating, fabulous and unique look to the bedroom. The bright colours instantly uplift the bedroom from mundane to stunning. Highlight the wall feature with some spotlights.
45. Random Curves
In the minimalist trend of neutral colours and straight lines, this accent wall of curves and pastels is a standout. The circles and curves soften the look, while light pastels complement the modern minimalist styling.
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115 photo options and ideas on how to paint on the walls
Possible techniques
Painting may vary in the manner of execution and in the materials used in the work, but it must be remembered that the image in the interior will remain for a long time.
Positive aspects - the room can be made visually larger; it is also much easier to hide or favorably emphasize the features of the base - the wall.
How to do it
To paint the interior of a room correctly, you need to know some principles. The sketch of the interior of the room is drawn in perspective. This means that the size and shape of all objects will be distorted according to a certain rule.
Beginning Source ds05.infourok.ru
Anyone who has ever seen tram or railroad tracks is familiar with the concept of perspective. In reality, they are parallel to each other and never intersect, but if you look into the distance and along them, there is an illusion of convergence to one point on the horizon.
Room in perspective with markings Source koshkina.net
The same principle is used to build the perspective of a room, which is called the front one - it uses one vanishing point. In addition to the frontal, there is an angular perspective.
It uses two vanishing points and is more complex to implement.
Frontal and Angular Perspectives Source cf.ppt-online.org
For a non-professional, interior sketches in pencil are best done using frontal perspective, which has the following properties:
- The image is built relative to the far wall of the room, parallel to the plane of the drawing.
Features of the frontal perspective Source cf.ppt-online.org
- The image preserves the real proportions of the room and objects.
- A horizon line is set on the plane of the far wall (the level of the line is determined arbitrarily), and the main point of the image is selected on it, which is also the convergence point.
Frontal perspective with a different horizon line Source cf.ppt-online.org
- If on the plan (and in reality) the line is perpendicular to the far wall, then on the sketch it obeys the law of perspective and goes to the main point.
- If on the plan the straight line is parallel to the plane of the far wall, then on the sketch it is parallel to the horizon line and the base of the image (floor plane).
Frontal perspective with different points of view Source cf.ppt-online.org
Airbrush method
The tool used is an airbrush, also known as an airbrush. The surface is smooth, without streaks, with smooth transitions in shades and colors.
Filling in a pencil drawing
To make a pencil sketch come to life on the wall, it is necessary to apply several layers of paint on it, thus giving depth and color accents. The successive application of many shades of paint allows you to create the effect of a living picture, to feel the movement of leaves or waves, the twinkling of stars, the transparency of water. Competent drawing of details helps the master to achieve the effect of realism, complete immersion in the subject of the picture.
Painting a pencil drawing
Steps to fill in a pencil drawing:
- First, a light, translucent layer of paint is applied to the wall.
Its task is to fill in the main fragments of the composition and determine the points of subsequent correction. - Next, the master mixes the paint on the palette until the desired shade appears and applies the central elements of the composition to the working area.
- We must not forget about the basic rules of composition and the order of painting. First, the artist applies pale shades to the background of the composition, and then, increasing the brightness of the palette, moves on to the foreground elements.
- The details of the drawing are written last. This is done with a thin brush and only after the basic color spots have been painted over and corrected.
- Detailed rendering of the composition gives it additional depth, the play of shadows that help the drawing to "connect" with the surrounding space, to become one with it.
Frescoes
This kind of painting has been known for a long time: works made centuries ago have been preserved.
Such a design can last forever.
In our time, it can be used as a copy of the paintings of modern masters or the creation of various kinds of landscapes, as well as an imitation of "deep antiquity".
Fluorescent painting
A very interesting effect is obtained when using fluorescent paints - during the day it is an ordinary picture, and at night the image begins to glow. Waking up in the middle of the night, you can find yourself in the middle of a raging ocean or in an impenetrable jungle.
The ceiling painted like a night sky full of stars looks especially impressive.
Lesson #2 - Using the Projector
If you are not very good at drawing or such a simple drawing is not what you would like to portray, a projector comes to the rescue. Its use allows not only to facilitate and speed up the process of creating wall paintings, but also to depict the most complex paintings that claim to be the most real wall painting.
Find a suitable drawing on the Internet or draw it yourself on paper and scan it. Make the light in the room less bright, and then project your image onto the wall with the projector.
After that, simply stroke the drawing with the brush, using the paint of the desired shade. In order to depict such birch trees on the wall, it took a couple of tones darker than the color of the wall.
Three-dimensional images
In order to visually enlarge the space and achieve the effect of presence, the technique of three-dimensional painting is used. There are two ways: 3D drawing and embossed decor.
To obtain the effect in the 3D drawing technique, landscape images or a landscape supposedly located outside the window are most often used. There will be a feeling that the image becomes a continuation of the room or is part of the nature surrounding it.
- Relief decor technique is used to create a three-dimensional image.
- The relief pattern is applied to areas that require volume in several layers - at this stage, gypsum mortar or building mixtures are used, spatulas are used as a tool.
- And only when this base is dry, they start decorating the image with paints.
There is a simpler technique - the use of stencils. In this case, the template is fixed on the wall, and the cut sections on it are filled with gypsum mortar. When the solution dries, the image is finalized with paints.
Interior graphics: how to use them
The unusual graphic pattern of the kitchen backsplash perfectly harmonizes with the light natural wood set
To avoid creating a dull atmosphere in rooms dominated by black and white compositions, you need to choose the right place to place the picture. The graphics in the interior look presentable against a neutral background, due to the finish in snow-white, pastel light blue, beige or pearl tone. Having chosen such an original way of decorating the inner shell of housing, it is worth remembering the rules for using graphic compositions:0006
Do not be afraid to experiment: dilute the black and white range with another basic interior color.
After all, white graphics look very nice, for example, on a rich lilac background
Spacious bright bedroom with an unusual geometric pattern above the head of the bed and a bright accent on the bed linen with nautical motifs
Original graphic motifs on pillow covers in a bright bedroom
A very dynamic abstract painting is perfect for decorating a living room.
Bright living room with an unusual graphic pattern and juicy yellow accents in the interior
A very detailed, eye-catching graphic composition in a bright living room
Unusual geometric abstraction, made in graphic technique
Bright living room in monochrome tones with framed graphic drawings
You can use absolutely any patterns, ornaments, drawings or abstractions to decorate the walls
Tip! In interior design, there are no strict rules for decorating a living space.
An original solution for decorating walls with graphic wallpaper
Therefore, you can confidently trust your personal aesthetic taste in the process of transforming your environment, paint the walls of your house with confidence, without being afraid to put a blot in a conspicuous place, as a modern design trend welcomes man-made, simplicity and non-ideal forms in any manifestation.
Spacious living room with Scandinavian motifs in the interior and graphic elements of the fireplace
According to ready-made templates
If you have a desire, but do not have the ability to draw, you can decorate the wall using stencils.
- They are easy to purchase in the store or download from the Internet and cut yourself.
- The product is fixed on the wall and painted over.
- Can be done with a brush, roller, spray paint or airbrush.
After the paint has dried, it is enough to touch up the image with a brush. The method is simple and proven, though it will not be easy to get any exclusive canvas.
Variations of graphic compositions
Graphics in the interior can be presented in different ways: made in the technique of airbrushing. With the help of an airbrush, the master can apply any image on a metal, glass, wooden panel or a perfectly evenly plastered wall. Due to the skillful combination of black and white colors, professionals create amazingly beautiful graphic drawings, from which it is difficult to look at another detail of the situation. Therefore, so that the surrounding interior items do not fade against the background of dynamic images, it is worth supplementing the composition with chords in the form of red-white or yellow-black upholstery of armchairs, green or blue curtains, involuntarily diverting attention from the impeccably executed graphics on the wall.
Unusual graphic design in a minimalist spirit on the wall of a bright living room
An original kitchen apron with graphic ornaments will complement the interior of a bright kitchen-studio. Slogans with a positive meaning, life mottos or quotes of idols look organically on walls painted in a solid color. A huge advantage of using this type of graphics in the interior is the ability to easily modify the decor of the wall decoration.
Bright studio room with an unusual graphic picture in the form of text.
You can arrange your favorite quotes or motivational phrases in this spirit
Also a very original way to decorate the walls, which you can easily use yourself - prints using homemade or purchased seals
Wall decoration with minimalist animal prints on kraft paper is perfect for a nursery, which looks very cute and atmospheric. An organic addition will be the design of a kitchen apron with eye-catching wallpaper with a newspaper print. Such a non-trivial finish of the kitchen impresses the interior with the aesthetics of the English style, retro style and pop art.
You can also decorate the walls with paintings that imitate tree branches
Interior graphics in any form, whether it's a beautiful black and white painting with an intricate story line placed in the living room, or comics depicted on the wallpaper of a teenager's room, always look catchy and arouse the interest of others. Therefore, feel free to introduce fashionable art objects into the look of the house, which will attract guests with a non-trivial approach to decor and the ability to fit graphic compositions often found in everyday life into the interior with design skill: on posters, black and white photographs, spreads of books, newspapers, advertising banners and signs.
Graphic compositions also look quite interesting on carpet
You don't have to paint directly on the walls, you can place panels with graphic patterns at the head of the bed, which can be replaced from time to time
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Styling solutions
Before deciding which technique will be used for painting, it is worth remembering the functional load of the room. Perhaps the living room is the only room in the house for which the choice of plot is not limited. The only motifs that will be inappropriate are fairy-tale or cartoon characters and food.
Most often you can find landscapes, portraits, reproductions of paintings by famous artists. It all depends on the style of the living room:
- Abstract motifs, large flowers, airbrushing, reproductions of paintings by modern masters are suitable for modern;
- Wall paintings in the form of a landscape, floral details, reproductions of classical paintings, ornaments are ideal in classical interiors;
- Oriental stylization is best reflected by ornaments and arabesques, images of dragons, hieroglyphs, national Chinese painting guohua;
- For Provence, the main decor element is flowers: roses, lavender, tulips, etc.
; - An art deco living room is perfect for a geometric ornament, a repeating pattern or an image imitating the texture of marble;
- When painting a loft, graffiti will be the most acceptable, especially if you need to dilute boring canvases of brick or concrete masonry;
- In eco-design, a wood texture is best, a bamboo forest or a beautiful field also looks amazing.
How to draw contours correctly
In general, colors are chosen to match the style and subject matter of the drawing, but if you do not have a minimum experience in design art, it would be better to do the opposite.
Drawing of owls on the wall of the living room Wall decor in the bedroom
Most people prefer to paint walls using acrylic paints: they can be perfectly diluted with water, they are quite easy to mix, they are great for blending halftones smoothly, and if necessary, acrylic paints can be easily washed off vertical surfaces. After rinsing, there are no traces or streaks left.
It is also recommended to use an acrylic primer. However, there is the possibility of using other options: you can use oil to depict a certain relief; using gouache, the artist can shade.
Plant drawing on the wall Stencil drawing on the wall
The choice of the original painting is carried out depending on the preferences of the artist himself. In this situation, you will have to take a picture of the wall that will be used to create the mural, and then apply the selected original pictures to it using a special program on a computer. Most often, users use Adobe Photoshop to carry out this task. Thanks to this tool, it will also be possible to slightly edit the original photo.
Japanese-style wall art
How to work
The substrate must be prepared before painting. This can be done in several ways: Level the surface using plaster or drywall.
The latter, after fixing to the wall, must be puttied and primed. Next, a background is applied to the surface (the surface must be flat and smooth), after which you can start working.
Only professional artists can paint directly on the wall. For everyone else, there are several fairly simple ways to transfer the picture to the wall:
- You can use a pencil and paint when the sketch is finished;
- Use the slide projector - just draw around the projected image;
- Use shadow – in this case shadow silhouettes of objects are traced with a pencil;
- An old technique known to many since school years - stencils or copying an image using cells.
It is not necessary to paint the wall completely, it is quite possible to do with some of its fragments.
Beginning graphic designers are advised to use no more than three colors for a drawing - this is quite enough to get a full-fledged image.
The plot, as already mentioned, should be chosen taking into account the functional component of the room, while the image on the wall should be in harmony with the overall design of the room.
All ornaments and images applied to the wall can greatly visually change the space of the entire room.
Decorating a living room with painting is not for everyone, so you can turn to professionals, and choose the plot for decoration yourself or discuss with the master. It is worth remembering that in this case, artistic painting on the walls becomes, perhaps, the most expensive type of interior decoration.
What should not be done when working with wall pictures?
It is best to paint the walls in the children's room, however, the restrictions that are imposed on the features of the wall painting depend on the psychophysiology of the child's vision. First of all, in the children's room there should not be clearly depicted spots with oversaturated bright colors.
Drawing on the wall around the socket
Drawing of sakura on the wall of the apartment
However, it is also important to know how to use delicate color tones.
It is also not necessary to create a lot of small details, as well as to draw contours that are too geometrically correct, for the reason that analytical-type thinking has not completely formed in a small child, and such drawings will have a negative impact on the mind, as well as vision.
It is forbidden to create psychedelic drawings in children's rooms, as they will negatively affect the mental health of the child.
Drawing on the wall of the bedroom in the Scandinavian style
Photo of the drawing on the walls in the living room
variants of modern wall paintings, photo
Every owner wants to make his home unique. This is achieved by purchasing original furniture, textiles, flooring. The easiest, most affordable way to quickly and interestingly decorate a room is drawings on the walls in an apartment. For their implementation, you will not have to make any special changes to the interior, and the cost of implementation will be minimal.
You don't have to look like Picasso to decorate your walls with pictures
Popular, fashionable images used for painting on an apartment wall
Contents
- Popular, fashionable images used for painting on an apartment wall
- Design influences , room interior
- Materials used to create a picture
- Main types of pictures on the wall of an apartment
- Subject compositions or ornament
- Stone painting 9003 In the bathroom
- For the nursery
- In the hallway
In the interior of a modern apartment, various patterns on the walls are acceptable. The most popular:
Watercolor streaks are one of the options for those who have no artistic abilities
The influence of a pattern on design, interior design
Properly selected pictures can radically transform an existing interior design by setting the necessary accents.
They fill with details, make cozier an overly spacious, empty room, bring variety to a small one. Pictures of nature have a positive effect on the overall atmosphere of the room.
When choosing a picture, take into account the illumination of the room - the less natural light in the room, the brighter the picture should be
Materials used to create the picture
What is the best thing to paint on the wall in the apartment? To create an original image in the space of any room, it is permissible to use the following materials:
The main types of drawings on the wall of the apartment
There are many ways to create wall paintings in the apartment:
Narrative compositions or ornaments
Narrative "pictures" are drawn for a long time, especially if a lot of details are expected. The image is made multi-colored, but the main colors are chosen in accordance with the existing interior style.
Original fresco on the living room wall in Art Nouveau style
To create an ornament, the wall is pre-marked, divided into squares, using a pencil, ruler, square.
To depict a pattern that has central symmetry, you will have to use a compass.
Stencil painting
Stencils are made by yourself or purchased. With the help of such items, even novice artists can decorate their room. Figured slots are filled with paint with a brush, sponge, spray in a can. There are also “anti-stencils” - this is what is cut out from the middle of a regular stencil, but if it is decided to use the element, they paint over the space around.
Example of screen painting on the wall of a children's room
To beautifully fill the stencil, the paint is applied differently in certain areas - in some places you will have to rub.
3D images
No artistic skills are required to create this design. 3D stickers, as well as whole paintings, are purchased at the nearest hardware store or even a bookstore, placed anywhere on a smooth wall.
3D stickers allow you to quickly and effectively transform the interior
There is another way to create "tri-d" pictures - they are drawn by hand.
To give the image volume, you will have to carefully choose the colors, work out the shadows, all the small elements. This requires serious artistic skills.
3D drawing will look great and create the illusion of a spacious room. Usually the painting is done on wet plaster - the drawing must be completed before the material dries and hardens, a kind of fresco will be obtained. Painting dry plaster is a little more difficult.
Painting on decorative plaster may resemble antique frescoes or realistic relief paintings
Art painting
Wall painting is also a good option. Using this technique, it is easy to mask individual surface defects, the shape of the room, and symbolically highlight individual zones. The painting is done with acrylic, luminous, "invisible" paints. This technique also includes airbrushing, "three-d" painting.
Artistic painting with natural or urban landscapes will look great in the living room
Relief ornament
Original relief patterns are easy to draw with the help of "liquid wallpaper".
The easiest way to do this is using a special "thick" stencil. When the surface dries, it is carefully removed, leaving a beautiful three-dimensional pattern, if necessary, sanded with sandpaper. To make the image even more interesting, it is painted by hand. To give additional relief, individual fragments are worked out with dark colors.
Drawings on liquid wallpaper can completely decorate all the walls of a room
Examples of design with drawings on the walls in different rooms
The design of each room of an apartment, a private house, depends on the chosen interior style, color scheme of the room. The main advantage of do-it-yourself drawings is that many of them are easy to paint over or even erase (pencil) to replace them with new ones.
Choose an image for wall decoration based on the style of the room. For example, if the interior is made in the style of minimalism, then the patterns should be appropriate
Bedroom
Men's bedroom interior is decorated with black and white images of cars, motorcycles, abstract moving mechanisms.
The women's bedroom is made in more gentle colors - smooth lines, stylized flowers are preferred.
Unobtrusive floral pattern on the wall of a young girl's bedroom
Brutal loft-style bedroom interior with paintings on brickwork
In the living room
One of the walls of the hall can be fully decorated with one hand-made painting. This is an image of the panorama of the city, worked out in great detail, a realistic natural view, a colorful abstraction.
A painted city on the wall of the living room
In the kitchen
The kitchen is decorated with pictures of crockery, silhouettes of chefs in lush caps, and abstract images of various dishes. Full-color fruits, bouquets, baskets with sweets will also fit in with the theme.
In the kitchen, it is best to paint the wall in the dining area
In the bathroom
The walls of the bathroom depict the seashore with “drawings in the sand”, the underwater world of the aquarium, the silhouettes of bizarre fish and sea plants, as well as boats with sails.
Washable vinyl stickers are good for decorating the bathroom wall
For a nursery
The theme of pictures on the walls of a nursery depends on the child's hobbies. Very small draw his favorite fairy-tale characters, cartoon characters. A teenager is quite capable of decorating the walls of the room himself - most often preference is given to abstractions, silhouettes of people, animals.
The choice of subjects depends largely on the gender of the child, for example, girls tend to prefer floral or romantic designs
In the hallway
A long corridor is designed as if it were a whole small city street. A wider, square hallway is decorated with images of trees and flowers. If there is practically no furniture in the room or it is carefully hidden, the contours of individual objects are depicted on the walls.
In a hallway without windows, a tree with birds on a light background will look harmonious
Combining the pattern with interior elements, furniture, proper lighting
The picture on the wall complements and continues the decor, the main room decoration.
As a preparation, only the alignment of the wall is usually required.
A checkered pattern made in pastel colors will not change the visual perception of the space
You should decide in advance what effect the pattern will create - if you want to make the room a little smaller, bring one of the walls closer, use black, dark gray, blue.
Before you begin to create a picture, you should choose a wall that is best to highlight and draw attention to it
If the drawing is done in only one place, it makes sense to place a lighting fixture next to it. It is desirable that the picture is not obstructed by pieces of furniture, curtains, elements of floor and wall decor. Drawings "support" hinged shelves, highlight paintings in frames, lamps.
Wall painting can radically change the look of even the most ordinary room
Conclusion
Detailed, step-by-step master classes describing the process of making wall paintings with your own hands can be easily found on the Internet, on interior design and hand-made websites.
