Tips & Tricks…

Ways To Success With Painted Feature Walls

Feature walls have been enjoying a place in our decorating schemes for quite some time. As our tastes in decor have evolved, so has the way we are using painted feature walls.

Originally introduced as an antidote to minimal all white interiors, painted feature walls became a way of setting a colour pallete to an othiswise monotone white environment.

Now we are being more confident and adventurous with colour, painted feature walls are being used in more creative ways. Colours are being combined, layered and injected with pattern and texture.

It takes some skill and design knowledge to introduce painted feature walls into an existing or new colour scheme.

It’s best to be 100% confident about your colours and their placement before you start. Getting professional advice from a trained colour consultant is the simple, easy and affordable answer to success with painted feature walls. éclät point offers in house and on site colour consultations.

3 Great Tips To Get You Started:

1. Work out which wall is the primary focal point in the room, often this is the wall that’s facing you when you enter the room, however this is not always the case. Take some time to work out which wall has the strongest visual impact in the room.

2. Ideally a painted feature wall works best on a wall without openings. Having a series of door or windows in a painted feature wall can serve to distract the eye and compete with window treatments. This rule can be reversed if you have a particularly beautiful window or door you would like to highlight and have as the focal point of the room.

3. When looking at the wall you intend to paint as your feature, check to see that it has a distinct line and you can start and finish your feature colour.

What to Consider When Choosing Art & Mirrors.

Weight refers to an object’s visual weight, not how heavy it is. Anything that is large,
dark, bright, boldly patterned, or oddly shaped will look heavier and bigger than an item that is small, pale, solid, and predictably shaped.

When using this technique, it’s best to display your weighty object near similarly weighty furniture or architecture. This strong, stylized mirror is visually anchored by being placed above a fireplace with a complimentary visual weight.

Break The Ice – Stylish Ways To Manage Mingling
Entertaining should be all about…entertaining. Give new guest or favored friends and family some fun and frivolity that you can enjoy too.

• Distract your guests from your odd and miss matched chairs by hanging a gift bag on the back of each chair. Use a plain brown paper bag and decorate by
tying ribbon through the handles to secure to the chair. Fill with inexpensive fun goodies like sparklers, party poppers or comical hats – pop in off beat name tags that hang around the neck for parties of new comers.

• Print a menu and position on each plate setting add a fortune cookie on top to start the meal with good luck and conversation.

• Make memories… take a photo of each guest when he arrives and quickly print a heet of black and white contact size photos to use as place cards on the table. After your event you can add the picture to a personalized ‘thank you’ card or email – it will bring back happy memories for you and your guest.

• Use white paper from a roll over or instead of a tablecloth. When it comes
time for coffee add a pack of crayons to each guests saucer and invite them
to get creative or poetic on the paper tabletop.