The Reason Why Everyone Love Wall Painting Ideas

Walls in our homes are like a plain canvas waiting to get live with colors. You may either feel bored of the existing wall paints or you may want to hide the dirt patches, scratch marks left by the past owners. There is always a way out to give walls of your home a fresh lease of life.

Wall painting is the simplest and easiest way to color and decorate your walls with infinite wall designs, patterns, and styles within fewer expenses.

Colors And Their Significance

Whether the walls of your home, offices or the dresses you wear ‘colors’ do impact your mood and behavior. Interior designers, decorators also believe that colors can deeply impact moods, emotions, and feelings. Whether you’re revamping your walls or going for minor changes, choosing an appropriate color can be a tough decision.

Colors convey different meanings in different cultures. The white color in western countries conveys purity, innocence whereas same white color in eastern countries are considered as the symbol of mourn.

Though every individual has his own opinion concerning the awareness of colors, there are some colors that have universal meaning. For example, colors in red spectrum are known as warm colors as they invoke the feeling of warmth. At the same time, they also convey feelings of anger. Red, Orange, and Yellow colors are covered under this category.

Likewise, colors in blue spectrum are called cool colors and it conveys feelings of calmness. It also represents sadness. Blue, Purple, and Green come under this category.

Let’s explore the psychology of some prominent colors:

Black Color – Often considered as the symbol of negative energy or evil. But, at the same time, it is the most powerful one too! In many cultures, it denotes death and mourning. It is also related to unhappiness and sophistication.

Red Color – It is a bright, warm color that invokes strong emotions. Red color conveys feelings of love, warmth, and comfort. It also represents anger. As far as reactions are considered, it invokes energy and excitement.

Blue Color – Often described as the color of serenity and calmness. The blue color is quite favorable among men. It also conveys feelings of peace and tranquility. On a negative side, blue convey feelings of sadness and loneliness.

Green Color – It is also called Nature’s color. Green color conveys feelings of soothness, restfulness, and cheerfulness. It also represents health, good luck, and tranquility. On the negative side, it conveys jealousy.

Purple Color – Purple color is quite rarely found in nature. It is actually a combination of blue and red in color. It is often described as the color of mysticism, imagination, and spirituality. The purple color is also the symbolism of royalty and wealth.

Some inner color

Yellow Color – Yellow color is the attention grabber. It invokes the feeling of enthusiasm, brings warmness and motivation. It looks bright in appearance, reflects the high amount of light which brings fatigues to the eyes resulting in lack of concentration. Another negative aspect related to yellow color is that it creates the feeling of frustration and anger.

Brown Color – The characteristic features brown color convey are strengths, reliability, security, and safety. It also brings the feelings of warmth and comfortness to the mind. On the negative side, it invokes sadness, loneliness, and isolation.

Orange Color – Orange color is again a strong contender of strongness and enthusiasm. It is often described as a happy and uplifting color. This color is the combination of yellow and red color, also considered as an energetic color.

Pink Color – Pink color is considered as the feminine color. It is a calming color related to kindness, nurturing, compassion and romance. Pink color is basically lightest form of red color.

White Color – White color is considered as pure color. It conveys both negative and positive thoughts, emotions. Some positive feelings it invokes are simplicity, freshness, and cleanliness. On the negative side, it conveys feelings of isolation.

Creative Wall Painting Ideas

You can give the walls of your home a simple look by using the fresh coat of any solid color as you like but, if you want to go beyond ordinary you need to think out of the box. To accomplish this, you can use different painting techniques which add textures, and styles to your walls.

Let’s explore some creative ideas that can be used to decorate the walls of our home and workspace.

Stenciling

If you are not sure about your artistic abilities, then here is the solution. Stenciling is one of the popular technique used for wall decoration. It is an ancient technique, where designs are created by allowing ink, paint to pass through holes that are present in cardboard or metal sheet over the walls or surface in particular where decoration needs to be done.

Harlequin

The best place to see examples of the application of harlequin can be seen in rooms of small babies. The appearance of harlequin looks like diamond patterns. While using this technique, emphasis should be given to color-contrast.

To create harlequin, follow these steps:

1. Measure and apply the painter’s tape on the wall.
2. Paint the entire wall, allow it to dry.
3. Remove the painter’s tape.

Wall Graphics

It is quite similar to Stenciling. The only difference is that instead of using stencil designs you can create your own designs using an overhead projector. Wall graphics gives you more freedom to decorate your walls.

Stripes

This technique can be applied both horizontally and vertically. One of the important points need to be remembered while applying stripes is that the broader stripes look, the more beautiful it looks.

Brushed Pearl 

Brushed Pearl technique is one of the beautiful ways to decorate your walls. It creates a subtle effect on your walls. This technique is very simple to use, gives very sophisticated looks to your walls.

To create the design using brushed pearl, follow these steps:

1. Begin with applying base color on your walls.
2. As soon as it dries, applies brushed pearl technique and, compress it further with a plastic trowel.

Color Washing

Yet another marvelous technique, that adds texture to the bedroom walls. This technique works great with Tuscan and Mediterranean bedroom style.

To create color washing, follow these steps:

1. Start with applying base color on the wall.
2. Afterward, apply a mixture of glaze paint with painting brush in cross (X) pattern.

Mottling

Also known as ‘Fresco Color Washing’, mottling works same as color washing. It is only an additional layer texture lime wash apply over the existing wall paint which adds further texture finish on the wall.

The techniques mentioned above are some of the popular creative techniques that are been used to decorate walls of your rooms giving it vibrant and stunning visual appearance.