Colors can give your room a certain mood or atmosphere, and the best and most fun way to introduce colors to your room is using paints. Because paint covers a large area of the room, choosing the right color for the effect you want to get is important. Use reds and yellows to add warmth to a room, or cool a sunny hot room using blues and greens.

Choosing the right tone makes a big difference to a room too, it make rooms seem smaller or larger, brighter or darker depending on how dark or light your color is, and the way you apply it to your walls or ceilings.      (see how )

You don't have to paint all walls, sometimes one wall painted in a different color can make a very nice statement. Paint-effects can give a room a whole new look too, and it's easy to achieve once you know what to use and how to use it. Also stripes, checks or blocks of colors on the walls make them seem more interesting.

In the picture above you can see how I transformed the look of plain white walls using stripes of pink with red swirls and  stenciled border. This is the perfect way if you are trying wall painting for the first time, or if you are not very sure how much color you can live with in your rooms. But don't let your fear stop you, be bold and try new colors, you might surprise yourself and find out that you love colors. And the nice part is, it's only paint, if you don't like it just go over it again. So get inspired and paint your walls, and join me in the next issues to learn how to get the paint-effect looks easily.