Lower Walls: If the walls of the room have dados or other interesting features, paint these in a contrasting lighter tone to create another focal point and further break up the expanse of Wall surface. Alternatively, paint both the ceiling and the top of the walls down to the dado in one dark tone, the dado in the contrasting pale tone, and the lower walls in a medium tone that complements the ceiling and upper walls. This will give the illusion of a much more compact room with a lower ceiling height.
Choice of colors in decorating your home is partly determined by the size and shape of each of the rooms, the existing furnishings, the furniture and the lighting. However, most important of all, your decorating scheme will reflect the mood that you wish to create; and this in turn will be influenced by the function of each of the different areas of your home.
The same shade of blue has been used on the lower walls, beneath the dado rail, and on the door - an emulsion for walls, a tougher, eggshell paint for the woodwork. Above, there's a pale, airy blue, which makes the room feel light and spacious. A subtle leaf design has been stencilled on in green at random - an easy way to breath life into plain walls, with a pattern that's not as bold or rigidly repeated as wallpaper.See Also Spraying Walls:Coloring is sometimes produced by spraying walls with a paint spray. Gradations in colors may be produced by this means. Stepped effects in wide horizontal stripes are also occasionally seen. In both cases the darker values are placed at the lowest portion of the walls and the lighter tones at the top. Walls may also be painted in wide vertical stripes, the alternate stripes being similar in color but varying slightly in tonal value, so that a strong contrast is not apparent.
Respirators are robust, being made from molded rubber or plastic. They have an exhalation valve and a replaceable cartridge Filter that resists organic vapor and paint spraying. You have to insert the appropriate Filter for the substance being used. Safety glasses Typical jobs requiring eye protection are sanding, painting a ceiling with a textured compound, spraying paint, and most metalwork tasks. Whenever you are using chemicals, make eye protection a priority.
On The Other Hand See Require The Walls Treated:Plaster effects. Certain types of rooms require the walls treated in the effect of rough, sand-finished plaster. The textural charm of old walls of this type is well known, and if mellowed by age, they have an unusual appeal and are exceedingly durable. If existing walls are not of this type, the painter may be called upon to cover the Wall with one of the many patented surfacing materials, to produce the desired effect. It is essential, however, that the degree of roughness and irregularity of the old walls be imitated exactly. Many of the old plaster walls consisted of a coating ap¬plied to rough stonework, and the unevenness of the stones produced slight variations in the plaster surface. The plaster, although it often gave the appearance of having been applied carelessly, had irregularities which were never intentional or self-conscious in appearance, nor was the aim to produce a crude or unfinished result. Many incompetent and unintel¬ligent craftsmen have, in recent years, under the spell of early Italian and Spanish types of decoration, resorted to effects that have produced walls completely devoid of taste and understanding.
Ceilings may be calcimined or painted white or off-white. An agree¬able effect is obtained if the ceiling is treated in a lighter tint of the color used for the walls. Increase in color interest may be obtained by painting the ceiling a color contrasting, either in hue or in value, with the walls. Ceilings that are painted in a color darker than the walls or treated in gold or silver leaf tend toward a modern effect. If a definite color is used for the ceiling, it should be repeated elsewhere in the Decoration of the room.
Using two or more colors on the walls in the same room is always logical if the materials are different, such as wood panelling on one wall, and plaster on the other, or if one Wall is treated with wallpaper and the other with paint. A plaster Wall may be painted a different color than the woodwork. Where wallpaper is used in part of a room, it is advisable to paint the remaining plaster walls with the lightest and most neutral color used in the wallpaper. The Wall area can often be painted the wall¬paper-background color, or even more neutral in chroma. Where all walls are to be painted, decorators may use two colors; the window Wall is generally painted in a lighter tonal value than the opposite wall. In a double-use room (living room-dining room) an apparent division is often made by painting the walls different colors, and indicating the different uses thereby. Walls should not arbitrarily be painted different colors, but may be if there is a logical reason for so doing.
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