Tips to decorate walls and ceilings

Tips to Decorate walls and ceilings

Plain white ceiling is boring. If you want to add fun to your room, colorize your ceiling. It's especially recommended for room with a high ceiling. Colored ceiling make such room cozy in place of intimidating. Paint your ceiling with nice, soothing color and see the effect. You can paint your ceiling with a sky scene i.e. stars and clouds. Your kids will love to sleep under it.

Framed photos on the wall are a great way to make your home cozy. Framed family photographs will help your family members to relive the good moments. You can arrange them in chronological order and can frame them in wooden or metallic frame. Alternatively, you can use old picture frame to frame a quotation you love.

With a little creativity and imagination, you can create a faux window or a faux arch on your walls by using trompe l'oeil and faux finish wall murals. Trompe l'oeil basically means to "trick the eye". An illusion of three dimension is created. Windows, doors, pillars, arches can all be painted by using above mentioned techniques.

Then, there are painted ceramic or marble tiles which can be used to decorate either interior or exterior of your house. Tile wall murals are perfect for kitchen backsplashes and kitchen walls. There is a choice of either stock tile wall murals or custom tile murals. Stock tile murals are mass produced whereas in custom tile murals, you have the choice of sending your favorite picture to the manufacturer. It is then painted on the tiles. Custom murals are costlier than stock murals.