Thursday 29 July 2010

Living Room Colors ideas

Living Room Colors ideas While choosing the colors for the living room walls, first take a look at the size and shape of your living room. Make yourself aware of different types of colors that provide different feel to the walls. Warm, cool and muted are some of the basic groups of colors used for painting walls. Red, yellow, orange and their combinations together form warm colors, while blue, green, violet and their shades come under cool colors. It may happen that the size of the living room is small and hence you may need to choose the color scheme to give a larger look to the room. Cool colors and muted colors may help you at such time. Moreover you should also consider the color of the furniture in the living room. The colors of the wall and the furniture should complement each other to enhance the beauty of the living room. You can take help of virtual interior painting to visualize the effect of the colors chosen by you. Read more on, Living Room Color Schemes.


Choosing the Right Paint

After deciding the color, visit the nearby store to purchase the paint required. Take proper measurements of the walls so that you can buy approximate amount of paint required for painting. Paints come in different forms and textures and each of the type of paint has different finishing touch. Flat finish, matte finish, satin finish and gloss finish are some of the types of paint that can be used for living room. Flat finish paint is the one with no shine and no reflection of light. While the gloss finish paint is the one which shines the most and is also highly durable. Matte finish paint reflects light to some extent while and satin finish reflects light moderately with soft glow. Thus depending on your requirements choose the paint required for your living room. You should also consider the durability and maintenance characteristics of each of these type of paint. You can find all the required information at the paint store.

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