One of the most asked questions I get, right behind how to pick the correct colors, is how do I create color breaks in my room. With many homes having open concept living, fewer and fewer obvious wall breaks are available. I have some fun and easy options for this problem.
When you have very large expansive walls so often found in the open concept homes it can and often does create problems of how to start and stop paint. In some cases there are simply no easy stops, I often suggest they use the same paint all the way around. These are people who would just like to add a little color and not do anything out of the ordinary or different.
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If you are a little more creative and not afraid to go a little on the wild side the next few options might be something worth thinking about. One of my favorite applications is to make your wall art, that's right making it an art piece. I have suggest to my clients starting the paint at an obvious beginning and then half way or maybe three quarters of the way in the middle of the wall...put a wide stripe of an accent paint, floor to ceiling. Start the next paint and then finish the rest of the room with the new paint.
The size and the stripe depends on the size of the wall and how bold you want it to be. The accent can be anything you want. If you want bold, darker color, less bold something just slightly darker or lighter that the wall color.
You can shake it up with adding maybe a zigzag or a couple lines one larger and a couple smaller. You can even add a half circle, or a fully circle, small circles going up on edge of the stripe. Do you see how this now becomes wall art? I suggest you draw this out and play with colors and designs before you actually paint it. And then put up a large piece of paper on the wall with the colors and design, live with it a day or two and then make it happen.
Another option is to simply blend the different hues together at the point in your long wall that you would like to have the transition. This can be very beautiful and gives a nice look. To accomplish it you need to use a paint extender product, it extends the drying time and makes the paint more translucent, this will help you blend the colors easily and they will flow into each other. If you do not use the extender it is much harder to gradually blend the colors. Only use the extender on the colors where you are bringing them together.
Don't let those large run on walls drive you crazy any longer, make them a work of art. Everyone who has used this technique has had amazing comments from their friends, it is very unexpected
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