Unusual Design Ideas With Paint
Paint is a relatively inexpensive tool to make unusual design ideas that create texture, depth and emphasis in a room or on a piece of furniture. Using paint is an easy way to change a look, and the ideas can be used throughout your house.
Stencil Your Mirror
Boost the aesthetic quality of a frameless bathroom mirror by stenciling designs along the edges of the mirror to create a two-dimensional border. The design can vary depending on the theme of the room, but a popular bathroom design theme is nature, which can be expressed by stenciling flowers, leaves or vines along the edges of your frameless mirror to mimic an organic border. Overlap paint colors or use multiple elements of nature to create a fuller look.
Chalkboard Calendar
Painting a home office wall with chalkboard paint, or paint that converts the surface into a usable chalkboard once dry, is an unusual, yet effective, way to create a workable surface to organize your schedule. Divide your wall into a six-row, seven-column grid using painter's tape to create the layout for the calendar. Paint alternating squares different colors of chalkboard paint for emphasis. Use chalkboard paint to create note stations near a telephone or in conjunction with a primer that attracts magnets for walls that are both beautiful and functional.
Faux Antique Table
Give your kitchen table a modern distressed or worn look using paint. Apply two coats of paint to a clean table in a medium or dark color. Once those coats are dry, apply a lighter coat. Distress the surface with steel wool and seal with a clear acrylic paint. Give your table a marbled look by applying a white or light base coat and sponging a combination of gray, beige and light gray glazes to imitate contrasts found in marble.
Wall patterns
Use paint in a bedroom to create textured wall decorations. Use a rubber triangle combing tool to create a herringbone pattern on walls by dragging the device in a diagonal pattern. Use an imprint rocker to mimic the look of wood on walls in a bedroom for a nature-inspired textured look.
