Paint your home the right way

Here are some tips if you are planning to get your house painted

With several new types of colours, textures and pat terns available in home paints, we indeed get quite ambitious about getting our homes painted. Other than the normal wrapping your furniture to protect them from dust and water-proofing the walls before the paint, these three simple things will help your newly-painted home look fabulous.

BRIGHT HUES

Choose colours that reflect light This is the most important aspect. In a city, where micro-housing is a way of life, we need ways to make our space-crunched homes look spacious. And, choosing a colour that reflects a lot of lights can actually help you achieve that.Colours like ivory, lemon yellow, peach, light blue, etc. helps reflect enough light and create an illusion of being a space spread across a huge area.

DESIGN FUNDA

Select designs and textures that would suit the space Since most of us are high on designs and textures, it is pivotal to understand what exactly looks good. Choosing textures that have a definite theme, and also go with the other elements in your house furniture, artefacts, paintings, etc. will make the wall standout. Do not choose something extremely abstract as it might just end up look ing out of place.

VARIETY VENEER

Do not paint the entire home with the same colour because monotony is something that none of us seem to like. Hence, choosing a single colour for all the sections of your house will only lead to boredom, not that you over-explore the colour palate. However, make sure you paint sitting areas, baithaks, y study, dining room and children's rooms in colours that are inviting and make the section stand out from the rest of the house.

Source : Times of India, Bangalore