Home Decor for Less

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Accent Wall (make a huge impression)

Guidelines for painting accent walls

• Accent walls can be solid without doors or windows. They can also be an accent color around beautiful french doors or a window with a spectacular view. 
• Ask yourself what the natural focal point in the room is. Do you have a fireplace you could make more dramatic by painting the wall in a different color? Other naturals include the wall behind the headboard or an important piece of furniture, the wall holding dramatic art, a niche or other interesting architectural wall features that you want to highlight.
• If you do not have a natural focal point you can create one. Look around the room where does your eye go first? If you paint behind a Painting or a sculpture that item will stand out and get more attention.
• In oblong rooms the best way to accentuate is the farthest short wall. 
• If you are accentuating a wall with pattern, continue the pattern around the room in threes. If the wall has stripes, then place a pillow and a rug with similar stripes in different places in the room.
• Whatever wall you chose as your accent, make sure there is no other competition from other walls. If any of the other walls already have a focal point, adding an accent wall next to it may create confusion and overwhelm.

                     Interior Essence accent walls:

  

 

Accent wall tutorials

  Stripes

Chevron stripes 

Stenciling 

Foil faux finish.

http://www.housepaintingtutorials.com 

Recycle!

Just about everything I do around my house is 

done with scrap material! 

I did not spend a penny on this project! The pillows are  outdated 5 years from my living room and he headboard is an old door covered in leftover padding and fabric from a previous project. 

                   
                   The frames were once used for other decor. 

The ribbon is leftover from hair bows I made for my girls.

 

And the buttons are from a collection my 

great-grandma gave me! 

Before you buy something new look at the old. 

A few examples : 

               -Purchase "oops" paint 

                (returned paint that you can find at any paint store).  

               -Try painting or refinishing something to give it a new look. 

              - Re-purpose a item. That could be just moving an end table from 

                 your living room to the bedroom or this could mean turning 

                 a door into a headboard. 

Recycling can be fun! Give it a try!

Make it work!

Make a cold cement block wall fit with 

an ugly orange sofa and used blue carpet. 

 

Step 1: Purchase paint in the same color family of both items (Blue and Orange) and at least two neutral colors that flow with the space (Dark Brown and Khaki).

Step 2: Prep area to be painted by washing the wall with a damp rag. Dry completely before painting.

Step 3: Tape off areas not to be painted. 

Step 4: Paint coordinating colors in an asymmetrical pattern. 

 Step 5: Fill in remaining areas with neutral colors

 

Step 6: Allow Paint to dry some, yet while it is tacky pull the tape 

off the wall.

Step 7: Place accessories. 

Find Items that have similar color and pattern and place them in 

threes around the room.

(Example: Our square pattern is on the wall, pillow and table.)

 

 

$30 office makeover

 Step 1: Purchase Items:

-  $15 Desk from Craig's list

 -  $5 Chair from Craig's list

 - $10 fabric from Hancock fabrics 

Step 2: Recover Chair (See November 5th Blog)

Step 3: keep ONLY necessary items

Step 4: zip-tie wires. 

Entry Function

Add Function to your Entry for less then $100!

Step 1: Prep area (wash walls, lay plastic, tape trim, ect...)

  

 Step 2: Measure and level brackets 

Step 3: Predrill 2"x2''x10''s for shelf brackets

 

Step 4:  Place all Brackets wherever you desire a shelf 

(on both sides of the walls)

Step 5 and 6: Cut boards and place shelves 

Step 7: Calk edges 

Step 8: Paint 

 

 

FUNCTION!

Bent to Bonny

Transform a chair from Bent to Bonny in an hour!

  

Step 1: Remove seat and Back

 Step 2: Cover with new fabric. 

{Staple all the corners first, then finish with the other edges.

Be sure to pull fabric very tight between each staple. }

Step 3: Attach back and seat.

BONNY!!