Painting the walls in the bedroom

Repair in the house brings a lot of trouble, but painting the walls in the bedroom is one of the fastest and most pleasant undertakings that even a child can handle. If we talk about the most intimate home space, then the walls here should have to rest and relaxation, so give preference to muted or natural shades.

Paint the walls will help to change the image of the room - a safe and environmentally friendly composition with a rich color palette. Among other ways of decorating a room, the following advantages stand out:

• Wooden, plasterboard, brick and even cemented “bare” walls (provided that the cement is dry) and plastered are amenable to paint. She can paint the wallpaper (painting, of course);
• Only one day is required for the complete transformation of the bedroom.if in it painted wallpaper or walls are fully prepared for painting - aligned, plastered and dried;
• Paint allows to achieve a uniform shade of the walls and even create a unique pattern on them, if you use stencils.

Modern paint on a water-based basis has a number of features, because of which it is chosen to paint the walls in the bedroom and the nursery, and adult:

• Dries in less than 2 hours;
• It does not have an unpleasant smell - you can sleep in the room on the same night;
• Safe and non-toxic;
• It is applied easily and evenly distributed on the walls;
• It is not combustible;
• Available in a wide range;
• UV resistant: does not fade in the sun, even if the room is located on the south side.

One or a couple of cans of paint is not enough, you need to arm yourself with equipment and materials for work.

• Paint rollers. Painting the walls with your own hands without them is impossible. They evenly distribute the paint on any surface and do not leave streaks, smudges and other defects. The wider and larger the walls in the room, the more rollers should be (so that the process does not take long), and the smoother they are, the shorter the rollers should be. Choose them with removable spare wheels and take several at once - with a long and short handle. The first will be useful for painting the upper part of the wall, the second - for the bottom.

• Paint brushes. They are usually painted on corners, joints and other areas that cannot be reached by roller. Choose inventory with a long, thick cone-shaped bristles.

• Masking tape It is used to limit a section of a wall — the ceiling line, baseboard, or something else.

• Paint tray. Ready or diluted paint is poured into the tray so that it is convenient to take it with a paint roller. The bottom of the tray is grooved, its size is larger than the area of ​​the roller itself.

• Extra capacity required if the paint needs to be “cooked”, or tinted with pigment.

• Putty, plaster will be needed if the walls have a rough finish, uneven and requiring preliminary transformation.

Before painting, the walls should be even and homogeneous, because the decorative base cannot hide the flaws, but only emphasizes them. The stages of preparation are as follows:

• Old wallpaper, putty, paint, plaster and other coatings will have to be removed. before the wall was "bare";
• All the dust and dirt from the premises will also have to endure - the room should be almost sterile and dry, so air it well after cleaning;
• Small cracks, hollows, holes and other nuances zashpaklyuyteif it is necessary to level the walls completely, use alabaster plaster;
• Apply 2-3 primers from a mixture of synthetic dispersion and latex;
• Intermediate materials should dry well - each time leave the room for airing for 1-2 days;

• Masking tape distributed around the perimeter of the room: joint with the ceiling and baseboard is mandatory;
• Use a freshly prepared paint solution in an amount that would be enough to color the intended area. If the paint is tinted, then next time to get the same shade is unlikely to work;
• Paint the walls with a roller from top to bottom and cross-shaped movementsso that the composition is evenly distributed on the wall;
• Paint corners and other hard-to-reach areas with a brush.which needs to be lowered in paint approximately on 3 \ 4.

For the bedroom, choose quiet, muted shades, preferring your favorite colors in the palette. The color of the room depends on who lives in it - a young couple or already aged, newlyweds without children or with children, a teenager (boy or girl), a child or several children.

• White - the basis of any bedroom in any format and style. It looks succinctly by itself or acts as a backdrop for furniture. In any case, it is necessary to make an emphasis in the form of bright details - dark furniture, colored textiles.
• Cool blue suitable for people peaceful and calm. It relaxes, soothes, provided that a muted powdery tone is chosen.
• Green helps to relax those whose main work is related to mental activity.
• Purple and red can be accents and used as textiles, armchairs, accessories or a discreet pattern on the curtains. Paint the walls with them is not worth it, because bright colors prevent relaxation, it is better to replace them with lavender or pink.
• Lavender - the color of Provence. It relaxes, promotes favorable rest and relaxation, if this shade is to the liking of the owners of the room.

There is a place to use several shades in the interior of one bedroom. These can be bright colors like pink and green or blue for a child’s room; basic colors can be white, gray and black for an adult bedroom in the style. Modern, Minimalism, Hi-tech or shades of beige brown gamut for Classics, Country.

White paint and color Kohler make it possible to create a unique and original shade. The latter is simply diluted in white paint to obtain the desired color immediately before the finishing process, but keep in mindthat repeat the same will not work and immediately prepare the composition of the entire area of ​​the room.

• Use 2-3 shades on the walls: create one accent (where the head of the bed will be located), the others are zoned in a different color or shade;
• For the southern arrangement of the bedroom, choose cold shades of the walls. - white, gray, lavender, blue, black, for the north - warm ones like beige, yellow, brown, olive or aqua;
• Apply 3 coats of paint: the first is with vertical lines, the second is horizontal, the final is cruciform.

Ideas and options for bedroom design in apartments and country houses, see the selection below. Please note that in the pictures the walls are painted with paint and accents are arranged in very interesting ways - colored stretch ceiling, huge picture frames, bright furniture and textiles.

If you are planning to renovate and ponder the issue of wall decoration, then watch the following video, in which you will find fashionable paint ideas for different rooms.