Reclaim your bedroom with an unusual painting style that fits your personality. Painting styles range from complicated, Lazure-style finishes to simple spray painting. Whether you want to sleep in a relaxing seascape or surrounded by an eye-popping optical illusion, there are ways to make every bedroom dream come true.
Lazure
This complicated painting style is usually accomplished as a group project. Using a thin mixture of water, binder and pigment, the paint becomes a light wash similar to a watercolor paint. Various colors are layered on a white background to provide a translucent effect that can change shades and colors under different lighting. Reds often fade to oranges while blues become greens that become yellow. This calming paint style is perfect for a mellow but intriguing wall color.
Optical Illusions
There are numerous optical illusions that can be used on a wall. For ideas, visit a website like www.123opticalillusions.com that contains a database of free images.
Precision is important when creating an optical illusion because simple mistakes can cause the image to lose its desired effect. One of the easiest ways to ensure perfection is to use a projector to place the image on the wall and trace it with a crayon or pencil. After the tracing is complete, paint can be applied for the desired effect.
Two-tone images can be created easily by painting the wall a solid color and attaching cardboard cutouts of the image over the painted section.
Complicated optical illusions can be created that appear to be moving or appear to be hanging in the air. However, these images require such detail and precision that it is best to have them painted by a professional or to turn a computer image into a wall mural by printing it on a large sheet of paper.
Murals
Even artistically challenged decorators can create simple murals on their walls. Using a combination of brushes and stamps, consider creating a simple seascape or garden image.
Seascapes can be easily created using different shades of blue. Start by painting the entire wall a light blue for the sky. Then, from the floor upward, create waves in a darker hue. Fish and other aquatic life can be added using stencils or stamps as a guide.
Gardens are created using a solid light blue for the background and a variety of greens for grasses and plant life. Grass requires very little detail and can be easily created by moving a basic paintbrush in a wide sweeping motion. Butterflies, insects, flowers and other adornments can be created for stencils, stamps or by adhering pictures or cutouts onto the walls.
