living room
One of the easiest and cheapest ways of changing the look of a room is with a splash of paint. You don’t have to be a master painter or make a huge project out of the effort. While it can be satisfying to make a major paint renovation in a room, here is a simple and inexpensive way of making your room look completely different with a minimum of effort. Choose the wall with the smallest surface area. Perhaps it has a big window, or a couple of doors in it, or maybe it is one of those odd-shaped walls that is really part of an alcove. Remove everything from the wall. Take down the draperies. Look at the colors in the room. If the paint is dark, then go light with this wall. If the rest of the room is light, go dark with this wall.
This is the kind of project that can be done in a matter of hours — minus drying time. Choose a trim color that matches the rest of the room and paint the woodwork, window and door frames in that color. Then paint the wall in the contrasting color. Get a good brush, use latex paint, lay down an old sheet, use wide masking tape to protect the edges of the trim. Better yet paint the trim one evening, let it dry and the next evening, paint the wall.
Don’t bury the wall behind a bunch of furniture and wall decorations once it is done. Let it shine as a feature of its own. Perhaps you can use it as a backdrop for a dramatic piece of furniture or make it more prominent by pairing it with cushions or throw pillow in the same shade or hanging a picture or ornaments on another wall in a matching color
