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Best Beach Color Schemes for Your Home
If you are planning to bring a little of seaside to your home, then beach interior décor would just be apt for you. But before you start off painting the walls blue, just close your eyes for a moment and think, is it all blue? You will get your answer.
Soon after you might actually proceed towards giving your walls a ‘sandy’ look or paint it with that ‘divine white’. Now comes the point of embellishments. Go shopping for some coral photo frames or picture sand painting frames. But make sure you stick to the seaside landscape or sea animal portraits.
While choosing fabrics, make sure you opt for those fine ones, so that when the breeze blows, you can race your heart to those special moments that you spend in Bahamas with your beloved right after tying the knot. If you had already collected sea-shells on your honeymoon at Bahamas, then make sure you use them by exploiting your creative inclination at its best.
Eco Friendly paints for healthy homes
Paints are a cheap and easy way to beautify a house. It gives the house a fresh and new look. But how many of us are really aware that paints can be harmful too? Some paints pose danger to both human health and environment. Different colors can emit volatile organic compounds that can increase the level of lead content in the blood. Children are affected the most by exposure to lead contamination. With regard to this, therefore, it is essential to understand how some pains can impact our health and eco-friendly alternative in paints.
What are paints?
Most paints are a mixture of various metals and compounds used as pigments or additives. They have been found to contain organic solvents, cadmium, chromium, mercury and lead. Usually, paints fall under two categories – water based latex paints and solvent or oil based paints. The former is more popular and offers superior resistance to fading, blistering, peeling and chalking. They are also more environmentally friendly.
Eco Friendly paints
These paints are made from non toxic elements. They come with zero volatile organic content and have virtually no odor. Its composition is low/non toxic ingredients, derivatives from plants, natural raw material, and mineral. It is free from lead.
Volatile organic compounds or VOC, when released into the atmosphere, can trigger detrimental consequences like ozone layer depletion, smog, and also global warming over a period of time. Green paints are a solution to combat the ill-effects of paints that contain lead.
Precautions
If your freshly painted walls emit a pungent odor, fumes and vapor or cause discomfort, leave the room well ventilated and stay away from the house till the paint dries up completely. While removing older lead-based paints, keep children and pregnant women away from the work site. Once paints are removed, vacuum and clean the area well with water.
Color codes at your home II
Stick to less than three colors, prints or textures in a small room and keep your decorating muted for serenity. If another room is visible through the room, try to create a harmony between their colors. Areas can defined in a very large room with subtle changes in the color of walls, White walls can be a good backdrop for your artwork or display of collectibles. In any case light and cool colors seem to add space to the room while warm and dark color shrink it and make them look cozy. Color trends keep changing, so it may be wiser to opt for a classic palette appropriate for the size, comfort level and function of the room, and then experiment with furnishing and accessories, which in any case constantly need updating and change.
The direction in which the room is located within the home and that of the windows of the room determines the amount of sunlight that comes into the room and at what time. A window in the east brings in not so intense morning rays. This room could be used for morning activities, and color used could be in the mid range – for instance e a leaf green or even a peach to make the most of the natural light. Very dark or very light colors will tend to look either too heavy or washed out, as the case may be.
For evening gathering, room with windows opening to the west is better as they allow you to have lovely sunset views. The light here plays along well with warm and rich colors. A room with windows to the north that brings in soft daylight for longer periods of time goes along well with light cool pastel colors. The one thing to keep in mind while choosing colors is that all members of the family are comfortable with the shades as all of them have to live with these colors in close proximity.
Color codes at your home I
Color schemes should be chosen according to the theme of the house, if any, climatic conditions, size of the room and light that comes in the room. All of these factors play an important role. If there is any specific theme in mind, for instance, black and white with red accents, then take into consideration the type of fabric used for curtains and upholstery. Natural fabrics score over man-made fabrics for their ability to breathe, and feel cool to the touch. Man-made fabrics have the advantage of longevity and are appreciably cheaper then the natural equivalent.
Prints of fabrics such as stripes, plaids, floral or checks can be used as single or mix-and-match according to your preference. Solid colors or neutrals go well with patterns. For large rooms, choose multi-colored upholstery, bed linens and coverings, wallpaper and window curtains with a large scale print. Contrast of mid-scale and small-scale prints look good too. A word of caution here would be to play with either color or print or texture. Variants of all can lead to a chaotic feel.
Walls could be painted or even papered, as this option is once again gaining ground. The tend these days is to for in for two or three different color on the walls of a single room, but monochromatic, walls can be make to look beautiful with accents in two or three complementary or contrasting colors. The detailing of cornices or window frames can be highlighted if desired, to add interest in the room. Painting them in contrasting colors can highlight attractive architectural elements such as trims and molding. However, it shrinks the space a little bit. Painting them in the same shade as the background can hide ugly elements as well as open up the space. More on coloring your dreams tomorrow.
Working with the magic of color
Colors can do wonders and if it is especially in your living room, colors do really play a decisive role in setting the tempo of you mind. Selection of complementary colors conveys that your room is more energetic and bold. These colors normally are combinations of red-green, yellow-purple etc.
Triadic color implementation is another combination for your bedroom, as it would come in combinations of three colors which are equal in intensity and depth.
If you want your room to convey a lot softened look, you can select three colors from the same family to decorate your wall.
Calm effect for the room can be made with combinations of variations of different colors. For example, if you chose blue and light blue and mix it up sensibly to decorate your walls, it would be as appeasing as it could be. Many people tend to prefer this combination instead of a plain colored wall.
When you paint your home
Painting a house has much more to do than simply making the house look beautiful. They will add to the space or will make the rooms appear smaller.
Choosing the right color for the exteriors and interiors of your house are highly important when designing a home. Wash the brush before you start painting using the same solvent which you will use after painting. Wrapping the brush is the second step involved in painting the house. Use latex gloves for painting. Never over paint a dry area as it cause the place to look ugly with overlap marks. Wet edge problem has to be considered and thought in mind whenever you start painting.
Always follow the order in painting the room. Start from the ceiling. Follow to the walls. Then follow to the trimmings and cabinets. Finish with the floors and doors. Start from the top and move towards the bottom when painting the house.
Getting your home ready for painting
Many of us give least importance in getting our house ready for pointing. Most of us believe that a new coat of paint would simply serve the purpose. But the fact is, pre adjustments and preparations are absolutely unavoidable before you get the first coat of paint on your wall.
A careful look at the previous coating should be made. A check has to be done to make sure no cracks or bubbles are there. This would give a fir idea whether you need to change the paint this time around.
A bath could be given to your house before painting. This would help you in getting rid of dirt or similar particles on the surface. Bath could be given using any detergents. Primer can be applied on your own to get a good interface between the surface and paint you are going to apply. This will give an even look to the surface.
Use Primers to get it glossier
Glossy appearance for the walls will be the best finishing appearance any surface could give. Moreover, this sort of an appearance should be made manually or it could be done on your own. The matter lies in the fact that the glossy touch will make the light to reflect when you view. This property of light, which is made possible by the glossy substance, hides the painting imperfections and cuts. Elegance and appeasing would be the ultimate result.
The prominent in the groups are oil based paints and latex paints. Even though numerous products are available in the market, primer should be considered as your premier option in giving a smooth appearance to the surface. The importance of primer is that, when applied to any surface, it just fill s all the cuts and holes in the surface to give an even look. Paints can be applied on the primer coated surface.