Creative expression with paint can often transform the style and feel of a bedroom more than changing the furniture. The color of paint has the power to transform your emotional state of mind. The lines you paint may either increase or decrease anxiety. You can save money by judiciously choosing which parts of your bedroom to paint and which to leave as they are.
Geometric Shapes
Don't underestimate he decorative power of varying the shades of color you use. A quick and easy way to lend your bedroom a sense of style is to leave your walls their current color, but add a geometric shape on each wall that is about two or three colors bolder in terms of shade. Consult paint sample cards at the store to determine the best shade or hue to use.
Silhouettes
Silhouettes were once a very common decoration in homes, and you can tweak this idea to bring it into the 21st Century home. Rather than a simple silhouette of the profile that is framed and hung on the wall, give your bedroom decor some high voltage energy. Ask someone to stand up against the bedroom wall engaged in some kind of motion, and trace the pattern around him, or ask him to trace the pattern around you. The motions you choose should reflect your interests.
Faux Rugs
Wood and concrete floors are both ideal for utilizing a painting idea designed to trick the perception of the mind. Painting a permanent rug directly on the your floor's bare surface is limited only by your talent and imagination. A professional artist could expand those limits even more to create an intricate oriental design, the clean solid lines of Art Deco or an animal print. You will most likely need to supply the animal's head unless you hire a truly gifted artist.
Two-Tone
Two-toning your walls offers the opportunity to avoid making that difficult decision of what color to paint the bedroom. A two-tone project is also the perfect compromise when you and a significant other cannot come to agreement on a color. Two-toning the bedroom walls id accomplished in enough different ways to solve any argument that arises over technique as well. You can divide each wall in half vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Another two-tone idea is to paint two walls one color and two walls another color.
Over and Under Molding
Another good way to use the power of shading is to attach a wide piece of white molding to the walls at about waist level. Paint the area above the molding a shade or two above the color below the molding or vice versa. Paint your bedroom furnishings using either complementary or contrasting colors to your wall hues to create a dynamic effect.
