How to paint the walls of the house: paint the internal and external walls with the fashion colors and the right combinations with the furniture and the type of home. Guides, tutorials with videos and photos, ideas and examples to paint your home in the right way.
I would choose colors for the walls of the house it is always a difficult undertaking, because you have to identify the tint and tone right to combine with your own type of furniture and at the same time preserve one’s own style, giving it a touch of design to every single environment.
We must then take into account the spatiality of the environments, of the goodness and necessity of lighting andinfluence that every color and tint has on state of mind of people.
How to choose the color to paint the walls of the house
There are two opposing ways for the choice of colors suitable for painting the house:
- The first follows a subjective criterion: pursues a line of thought that sees i colors fruit of yours personal tastes, without receiving external influences, fashion, trends and rules on how to paint the walls home.
- The second follows a objective criterion: sees protagonists trendy colors, as well as of needs rental of the building. For example if a certain environment is located to the north it will be necessary to choose a warm color, because this exposure will imply less light and now natural lighting, while if located to the south or if the environment receives the right light, it can reach out towards darker and unusual cold shades. It will be necessary choose colors for walls even thinking about spaces: if we have small rooms that need walls painted with light colors that amplify the spaces, while you can dare with dark walls when the rooms have large dimensions and the shrinking effect is not feared.
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Why and when to choose the different colors for painting rooms and environments
Obviously before paint the walls and decide on a certain color for paints to use and it is good to know the destination and the use of the environment, because theinfluence of colors on moods.
White Walls
The White and the color neutral par excellence.
Paint the walls with white it gives brightness and spatiality so it is always suitable for any type of environment. The variations of white, called dirty whites, as the beige, the White cream, the honey, the White ice, etc.
This color for the walls it is recommended with any type of furniture and color combination.
After all, the total white. To get an idea of a home furnished entirely in white: TOTAL WHITE FURNITURE.
Black walls
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The black colour represents the absence of color and of brightness, which is why it is often recommended for painting house.
Paint the walls black, on the other hand, it is useful when a background is needed to highlight elements and emphasize individual details, such as frames, paintings, furnishing elements, perhaps illuminating them individually with dedicated light points.
It is usually used with combinations of White, Violet is rose, conferring a certain class and style.
Gray Walls
The Grey, which is easily combined with modern furniture, giving the environment style ed elegance.
Gray is often used for the bathroom or living room, combined with vivid colors as the White, the green, the yellow and theorange.
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Yellow Walls
The yellow color it’s a lot bright ed eccentric, it is a shade that can acquire cold and warm variations.
Widely used in conjunction with color Grey, stimulates the concentration and the sociability, and is perfect for the study, kitchen and living room.
The yellow goes well with the furniture in wood or with furniture in lacquered white (The reverse also applies).
The gold color tone is a symbol of elegance and value, but if abused it can be synonymous with tacky and extremely gorgeous.
Red Walls
The Red it is a color hot, used in the chromotherapy to stimulate the growth activity of Red blood cells, therefore, useful in case of anemia.
This is a color that has a powerful effect on mood, conveying vivacity, power ed power.
It is recommended to use it in transit environments, where you do not stay there for a long time because in those cases it could make you nervous.
It’s a color which is mostly used for paint the details, to be combined with lacquered furniture, whites is blacks.
Pink walls
The rose is the color used, for the vast majority, for paint the little girls’ bedrooms because it conveys a fairytale atmosphere, warm especially if you approach a wooden furniture or in White.
The rose, is used in its various hue ranging from antique pink to the salmon also for rooms of a certain value that recall the ancient, in the living room if you have a bit of furniture back or for playful environments, where to spend your free time.
Blue walls
The blue, the color of the sky, is a color relaxing, which is usually chosen for paint the bedroom.
To be combined preferably with wooden furniture.
Not only that, the blue, in its many variations is also used for painting walls who want to highlight any furnishing elements (such as sofas, consoles, chandeliers).
To deepen the topic: PROPERTIES OF BLUE IN FURNITURE.
Indigo walls
With a strong relaxing power, theindigo it is a multisensory color, which symbolizes spirituality and inner awakening, with the ability to cure depressive and melancholy states.
It is a color that helps meditation a lot, acting positively on the nervous system, concentration and sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
For further information: THE INDIGO COLOR AND ITS MEANING.
Green walls
The green it is a neutral color, considered relaxing is rebalancing.
The position of the green in the middle of the spectrum, between the extremity hot is that cold, makes us better understand its ability to rebalance positive and negative energies.
Widely used to paint kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms.
Purple walls
The purple it is known as the color of the spirit and in effect, it acts on the unconscious giving spiritual strength and inspiration.
This color represents the average value between land is sky, between passion and intelligence, between love and wisdom.
Much used for paint bedrooms, living rooms, study, are its shades that can turn from magenta to wisteria and dark purple.
It can be combined with black and white or colored wood furnishing elements.
Dove-gray walls
The dove-gray color it is a color that gives a strong personality and elegance to environments.
The dove-gray color, which takes its name from the color of the plumage of turtledoves, has recently entered our homes to establish itself as neutral shade par excellence, together with the White and from Grey.
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Photos and images for home wall color ideas
We see a gallery, with many photos, images, ideas and examples of painted walls to evaluate how to paint house:
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Required material
To paint the walls we need:
- Painting
- Stucco
- Sandpaper
- Roller
- Brushes
- Plafoncini (flat brushes)
- Nylon sheets to cover furniture
- Rubberized tape or scotch
- Folding ladder
- Latex gloves
- Mask
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