How to fix a failed paint color on the walls

If you are engaged in repairs, and decided to paint the walls of one of the rooms in the apartment with paint of a specific color, first you need to buy a small amount of this paint and paint it with a flat board of medium sizes. This board will need to be rearranged in the morning, afternoon and evening from one corner of the room to another. This event will be required to assess the perception of the shade you like in different lighting conditions.

In reality, a different situation is often found - the whole wall is painted in an allegedly attractive color, after drying of which it turns out that its color does not please the eye in any way. Do not rush, at the same time, to panic and run to the building materials store for paint of a different tone. It is permissible to correct the created situation by the following proven and less expensive methods.

In most cases, visitors to construction forums complain about the overly bright tone of the painted rooms. To “muffle” the same color is permissible using simple actions.

• After the paint has completely dried, you can make vertical, horizontal, oblique stripes on the wall, as well as large squares or other geometric shapes to your taste. Space between these stripes or shapes in a lighter tone.
• The color of the walls will visually appear lighter if the overly bright paint is additionally finished with matt or translucent varnish.
• Complement the room with furniture and accessories of noble shades. It can be bedspreads and pillows on a sofa, curtains and curtains, a rug on the floor, as well as paintings.

Too light or dull color of the walls is often corrected by additional secondary painting.

Also, using patterns and stencils, patterns and drawings can be applied to the surface of the wall, finished in a "mild" tone, using colors of contrasting tones.

You can also “walk” along the wall with a figured roller. Here you can use the most varied paint: a tone or two lighter or darker than the colors of the main surface of the wall, or even contrast.

In general, the illumination of a room plays an important role in the perception of color. Currently, supermarkets and stores of building materials and household goods are replete with a variety of lamps and fixtures of various thermal returns - from cool blue to sandy yellow. Having tried several options, it is permissible to get the best result.