Thursday, February 18, 2010

Painting my teenage daughters new room? not sure what colors to sponge over the barn red walls?

my daughter has her color scheme as red black and white, id like to make it lookk elegant as she will be 17 or at least calming in a way. her walls are barn red. Id like her to have more white with black on her bedspread(she wants red sheets)her furniture is all black. I do think it will look pretty when its all together but id really love suggestions for sponging over her red walls to lighten up the room- i thought possible a white and pale pink? Also what about putting whatever color we do decide into a pump spray bottle and putting it on that way? ThanksPainting my teenage daughters new room? not sure what colors to sponge over the barn red walls?
Silver or Gold sprinkled.Painting my teenage daughters new room? not sure what colors to sponge over the barn red walls?
WHY not do it with a stencil as a pattern you can also do it with the spray or sponge


http://www.wallandmural-stencils.com/mon鈥?/a>


http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=ho鈥?/a>


OR http://tot2teenonline.com/Room-Decor/Sti鈥?/a>
...ple-e-ase do not mix red with pink! echhh! - even though pink is derived from red, it's an absolute clash of color to put them side by side!





I think you should talk to your daughter first - get her opinion %26amp; move with that. Her preferences may be different than yours, so please don't dictate what you want her room to be...





tatiana %26amp; silver phoenix have good suggestions - heed them...
We have a red wall in our living room, it was sponged over very lightly and sparsely with a gold and a deeper red shade. looks classy!


and i would use a sponge, you have more control over the amount and thickness of paint you put over the wall.
What about repainting the walls first a shade of red your daughter wants for her sheets and then use the sponge with white paint lightly so it is easy to see the red but still the wall is mostly white.
you should just sponge over the red with a darker shade of red and another shade darker just to get a good even look
In General it looks best when sponge coating to do a variation of the same color as the sponge coats.





I would suggest taking the red she has as a base color and lightening it up by about 50% and sponging over the base. Let it completely dry. Then taking the original base red and darkening it down by 50% and sponge over the top of the first 2 coats. After the top coat dries, you could repeat this process by lighten the lighter variation and darkening the darker variation then adding 2 more coats by repeating the process above.





Just a few notes:


- Use a Natural Sea Sponge


- Rotate the sponge before each time you touch the wall.


- Overlap the sponging to create an even coat without a repeating pattern.


-Sponge coats should allow the colors underneath to show through, so do not apply too heavily.


-The more varying color coats you apply the more three dimensional and interesting the effect will be.





Spray bottles rarely work with paint and are very messy. There is a paint technique called 'spattering' that would give you the effect of dots of paint on the walls in random patterns but this too is a very messy process.





As far as calming, good luck with the color red, I personally can't think of a less calming color.

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