More Than Faux, We Have Great Living Room Painting Ideas For You
Welcome to the home of great living room painting ideas. Painting is such an easy and inexpensive way to bring new life to your living room. We can't wait to give you lots to think about for your next living room decorating project.
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Faux Finishing
Faux finishing is a painting technique that creates a textured finish on your walls. A variety of tools can be used to create different textures. Examples would be artist brushes, sponges, check rollers, chamois rags, and bristle brushes.
Here are some examples of common faux finishing techniques:
Antiquing: Painting of an item, like a chair or table, followed by application of a glaze that gives the appearance of age
Color Washing: Application of a transluscent glaze over an opaque base to produce subtle and aged color variations. Brush marks are encouraged to further enhance the texture.
Frottage: Creation of a leather look on a wall. Involves crumpling a plastic sheet and applying it over the top of the glazed surface while brushing to smooth it over.
Two great resources for faux finishing information are How-To-Faux-Finish and Home Decorating Coach - Decorative Interior Painting. We're sure you'll find some great background information and techniques for faux finishing at each of these sites.
Painting Furniture
Living room painting ideas are not limited to faux finishing of your walls. Painting furniture is a great way to change up the look in your most popular space.
My sister-in-law's armoire is a prime example of how you can revitalize a piece of furniture, using simple painting techniques. First, she distressed the entire outside of the armoire to give it an aged, antique look. Then she accented each door by painting it silver. The combination of the distressed brown and silver, with specks of brown showing through it, looks amazing and fits her living room perfectly.
You can paint any table, chair, armoire, bookcase, shelving unit, or entertainment center. Your imagination is your only limit.
Painting Lamps and Accents
In addition to furniture, your lamps can be painted to give them a fresh look. Pick a lamp of the appropriate material, prime it, sand it and paint it. Many different types of spray paint are available for such a project.
My sister-in-law has had much success in painting different pieces of framed wall art. She took a piece that had blue and green prominent and changed the colors and the frame over to browns, bronzes and tans to create a warm, earthy look.
In our living room, we have a large decorative urn containing an arrangement of branches. Prior to inserting the branches, we brought them outside, set up a drop cloth and spray painted them bronze. This arrangement has been a staple of our living room ever since.
These living room painting ideas are easy to come up with and easy to do!
If You Can Dream It, Do It!!!
There are so many great living room painting ideas that will create an awesome look in your most popular space. Faux finishing can bring new life to your walls. Painting furniture gives it a look and feel that makes you think you brought brand new. Painting lamps and accents helps complement your colors and revitalize your walls and surfaces.
For a superb way to change the look of your living room, try out some of our living room painting ideas today.
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