Color of joy

We found color could bring us joy. Our house painting is our effort to find the joy at home. The process itself is one of the great fun that could happens in your house. Even the fun starts from the day you choose your favorite color for your house, while you let your kids choose their own color for their room painting. Then you painted your house and your kids helped you. It’s a lifetime fun for us all.

Sometimes you find that your favourite color isn’t well matched with your house. Well most people don’t know what to do after they painted their houses with their favorite color. This article will give you some good answers. It must be your house indoor decorations that didn’t suit your house paint. Sometimes you feel that your color is the right one, but still it feels like your paint color can’t make your house prettier. Consider to add area rugs into your living room or your bedrooms. Area rugs made significant different. It brings warm feeling and rich decorations. There are various models and colors of the rugs those you might choose to make your house beautiful.  Area rugs covered the blank spaces and enrich them correctly. With nowadays technologies, area rugs’ maintenance is not a difficult thing. Why don’t you start to have area rugs now? It’d be a nice effort for your house decorations.

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Interior Painting Tips

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Whether it’s time to paint your new home, or re-paint your current home, there are a few tips and techniques that will make the job much easier. If you’re getting ready to sell your home, a fresh coat of neutral colors will let potential buyers get a nice mental image of how their furniture will look in the house. Following are a few helpful painting tips and techniques to ensure a beautifully-painted interior in no time.

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The primer coat

Unless your current color is flat, it’s important to apply a primer coat to make the new paint adhere better. On flat-painted walls that need only small repairs, you might simply want to spot prime.

For walls with big areas of patching plaster, it’s a good idea to use a sealer or primer/sealer combo. Priming doesn’t require as much attention as painting, but it’s done the same way as painting-with brushes and rollers.

Ceiling and wall painting

You’ll always want to start with the ceiling if you’re painting an entire room. First, cover the perimeter and unpainted areas around the fixtures. Painter’s tape is excellent for covering. It’s generally a trademark blue color and sold at any hardware store.

Start with the ceiling (moving widthwise), in sections by about six feet square. Employ a series of overlapping “W” strokes, moving from right to left, then back from left to right.

If you’re using a finish other than flat, be sure to go over the whole ceiling once again with one-directional, overlapping, and non-diagonal strokes. This will ensure the paint is blended correctly. Then repeat the exact same steps with the walls, painting up to an inch or so next to edges and trimmings. The last non-diagonal strokes should be from top to bottom.

Using a paintbrush

Unless you have a very steady and skilled hand, or you have an edging tool, be sure to mask the perimeter of the ceiling with painting tape. Then paint the upper perimeter of the walls, and all the areas that you weren’t able to cover with a roller.

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If the ceiling or walls require a second coat, only start painting after the first coat dries. Always check the paint’s label for specific recoating and drying instructions. Generally, you will always get a better second coat if the first coat is allowed to fully dry.

To paint trim, baseboards, windows, and doors, use painting tape or a paint edger to protect your freshly painted walls. You can wedge doors open with a rolled-up newspaper, but always place a drop cloth underneath to protect tile or carpet.

A roller is the quickest way to paint a flat door. For doors with panels, you will most likely have to use a large brush. For double-hung windows, first pull the top sash down and paint the bottom area, then push it back up and paint the top area. Next, paint the bottom sash, and then the jambs and frame.

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Solve Room decor Problem

Room Décor is not as easy as it seems at the first sight. You may fancy that glamorous room in the home décor magazine but you may find it almost impossible to translate into a reality because of the simple reason that the construction of your home and measurement of your rooms is entirely different. You may be renting an apartment where you cannot redo the positioning of walls, doors and windows or have a large large hall you do not seem to put to best use. Color, lines and furniture arrangement can make a huge difference to your room décor. We have identified the five most common problems that people often face while doing room décor and have come up with the possible solutions. I still remember my last visit using car hire Shannon Airport to one of the local hotel’s room interior design.
These are:

1. Very Long Room

  • The best way to deal with a very long room is to split it into two using screens and room dividers that you may use as study area, living area, dining room, personal gym or just entertainment room.
  • Use warm dark colors on shorter walls to make them advance and give the room a balanced look.
  • You may also define separate areas by using different area rugs.

2. Low Ceiling

  • Long curtains that can be draped from above the door level and window level all the way to the floor, add height to the room.
  • Paint ceiling in light cool color to make it recede and add light to the room.
  • Tall accessories such as lamps look good and make room look taller too.
  • You can add height to a room by installing vertical and tall cabinets or bookcases in the room.

3. Narrow Room

  • Any linear arrangement on shorter walls such as placement of shelves, art pieces or rugs, will make them look wider.
  • Diagonal arrangement of furniture looks better.
  • You can also fool the eye by painting your longer walls in cool light colors to make them recede.

    • 4. Tall Room

    • Horizontally placed shelves, crown mouldings and art pieces cut off the height of the room.
    • In such rooms, ceilings should have a warm dark color.
    • You can also play the visual trick of installing the mouldings or chair rails to one half to three quarters of the way up the walls.

    5. Very Big Room

    • Experiment with warm and dark colors on your wall to make the room look cozier and friendlier.
    • Group furniture pieces into two or more separate seating arrangements.
    • Like long rooms, big rooms can also be divided into smaller areas using screens and room dividers and can be used for better purposes and will make the room look cozier too.

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