Is your bedroom ready for a new color? Is it dated or are you tired of wallpaper?
Read in this article how step-by-step choosing the right color for your bedroom and how to apply paint without difficulty ...
Content (At a glance)
What are you going to use the bedroom for?
Choosing Colors That Fits With Your Bedroom
Wallpaper Or Paint Choosing For The Bedroom
Select accent wall
Painting Ceiling In Your Bedroom
Get to work
Overvoting The Bedroom Walls
Wall Degreasing Your Bedroom
Repairing the Wall If There Are Dents, Cracks and Scratches In It
What kind of paint should I choose?
Primer or Not?
What Do I Need To Paint Walls
Bedroom Walls Paints: Step-by-Step
What are you going to use the bedroom for?
Before you start painting the bedroom it is important to determine what you do most in the bedroom. Besides sleeping of course ...For example, are you long to watch TV from your bed or your bed is just a place where you enter and immediately close your eyes.
Do you enjoy reading and would you like to have an afternoon in your bedroom.
Under the next heading, 'Choosing Color That Fits Your Bedroom', the different colors and color combinations are discussed.
Different colors provide different emotions.
The focus is on relaxing and a good night's sleep.
Choosing Colors That Fits With Your Bedroom
Below you will find a variety of colors and shades in a row that are (very) suitable for a bedroom.
White and light: Most common shades in the bedroom are naturally white and the variations on them.
White is neutral and fits in many different styles.
Colors can be trend-sensitive, but white is much less sensitive to this.
It is better to show the trend colors in carpets, duvet covers and cushions. These are easier to replace.
Painting walls and painting the ceiling takes much more time than replacing bedroom accessories, of course.
Natural tones in your bedroom: Natural shades generally give peace in your bedroom. It is not exciting and stimulating, but gives a neutral, calm atmosphere.
With natural shades you can think of colors and hues, sand, light blue, light yellow or light gray shades.
Dark tones: Generally, you do not see many dark tones in a bedroom.
On the other hand, dark tones can give peace. Do not make the room completely black but combine it with many other less dark shades.
If there is little light in the bedroom, it may not be a good idea to only go for dark shades.
You can paint an accent wall darker, but only keep it accents because the bedroom can feel stuffy.
You can think of dark gray, dark blue or greyish brown in dark shades. The gray brown tint is also a natural shade and also gives a rest in a bedroom.
Energy in your bedroom: Do you want your room to give you a cheerful feeling (when you wake up in the morning)?
With the right energetic tones you can get energy from your bedroom.
Try to bring the energetic colors more to the fore if light comes in the morning. If it is less visible in the evening and more emphasis is placed on the relaxed part in your bedroom, the chances are that you can get better asleep.
Think of orange, yellow, red and light purple in energetic colors and shades.
Wallpaper Or Paint Choosing For The Bedroom
Besides painting your wall, you can of course also decorate it.
When would you choose wallpaper and when to apply a coat of paint?
Read the advantages and disadvantages below.
Benefits of Wallpaper: You can easily apply motifs and patterns in your bedroom. You can paint or tampon patterns on a painted wall, but that takes much more time.
Disadvantages Of Wallpaper: It takes a lot of time to apply and remove. Just a bit more than with paint (which you can easily overpaint on a regular wall).
Patterns on wallpaper are often trend-sensitive and can easily get bored.
Advantages Walls Paint: You do not see seams like wallpaper. You can overpaint it more easily if you are tired of the color.
Disadvantages Walls Painting: Applying patterns and motifs is a bit trickier.
Do you already have wallpaper on the wall that you are fed up with? Then you can also overpaint it.
Are you already out, painting the walls or decorating them?
Now again with the dyeing of your bedroom ...
Select accent wall
You can paint all walls in the same color. But having one wall popping out is often a nice idea for a bedroom.
You can choose to paint the back of the bed or give the wall the accent color you see from bed.
An accent wall may be just a bit busier (have more striking hue or patterns) than the basic color.
You can also use a glossy paint on the accent wall for example.
Many people opt to paint white or off-white as the basic color and one wall or two walls in a striking color.
See below some examples, for inspiration:
Painting Ceiling In Your Bedroom
The best you can keep a ceiling neutral in color. Paint the ceiling in white or off-white.
This gives the most room to the bedroom.
Get to work
After choosing the right colors and choosing which walls you are going to paint, it is finally time to roll up your sleeves.
Overvoting The Bedroom Walls
In most cases you already have a layer of paint on the wall of your bedroom.
If this is not the case, it is advisable to use a primer, regardless of whether it absorbs a lot of moisture.
An example of a primer is: Prinssen Muurprimer 5 liter White - € 27.95
Always use a primer if you are going to paint a bare wall. You will find bare walls in new homes.
If the wall has already been painted and is in good condition, you can simply overpaint it without primer.
Of course, first thoroughly degrease and lightly sand so that the wall paint in your bedroom can attach well.
Wall Degreasing Your Bedroom
It is important to thoroughly degrease the wall before you paint. You can use ammonia. But ammonia can be very irritating to the eyes and the respiratory tract.
A good alternative as a degreaser is St. Marc. It is slightly more expensive but does not smell as sharp and you just need to wash off your gloves to keep your skin from drying out.
Repairing the Wall If There Are Dents, Cracks and Scratches In It
Unfortunately, it often happens that there is damage in the wall of your bedroom. If you want to decorate it and certainly if you want to paint it, an even wall is more beautiful.
Are there deep scratches, dents or holes in your wall? Then it's time to fix it before you paint it.
Fortunately, it is not too difficult to make the wall evener.
You need the following products:
Wall filler (for example Bolivia Wall filler - € 7.83 or Alabastine - € 10,99 )
Putty knife;
Plant spray;
Paint scraper, awl or an old knife;
Fine sandpaper (Grain 180 or higher).
First read the instructions for use of the wall filler that you have purchased. In many cases you can proceed as follows.
Step 1: Make sure you remove all the pieces and loose or half-loose pieces of wall from the holes or cracks. You can use an awl, old knife or a paint scraper.
Step 2: Open the wall filler. In some cases it is powder and you have to make a paste yourself in other cases, it is already ready-made.
The two examples, the Bolivia and the Alabastine wall filler are both ready-made.
Step 3: Fill the plant spray with lukewarm water. Spray some water on the cracks, holes etcetera in the wall. This way the wall filler can attach better.
Step 4: Apply some wall filler to the putty knife and rub the hole or tear it shut.
If you have a deep crack or holes in your bedroom wall you can best apply different layers of wall filler.
First allow a thin layer of filler to dry, and apply a second layer.
Step 5: Let the last layer dry. Sand the wall filler with fine sandpaper.
Dust can be released. Make sure you wear a face mask and wear safety goggles when sanding.
What kind of paint should I choose?
It is not very difficult to get wall paint in the desired color.
You can get all kinds of colors at your local DIY store or paint shop to put on the wall.
Online, you can go here for example, Onlineverf.nl
Primer or Not?
Primer works as a kind of primer. It is an underlay to better adhere the wall paint to the wall.
If the surface (wall) is powdery or absorbs moisture very quickly, primer is a good way to use before you paint.
You can test the bedroom walls or you need primer by pressing a wet sponge or cloth.
If the water is quickly absorbed into the wall, you must use primer.
If the water is 'lying' on the wall then you do not need to use a primer.
What Do I Need To Paint Walls
You need the following materials and products to paint your walls in your bedroom:
Wall paint;
Fine sandpaper (Grain 180 and higher);
Painter's gloves;
Paint tray;
Vacuum cleaner;
Safety glasses;
Paint stirrups;
Tassel;
Washing gloves;
Fleece roller (with telescopic pole);
Plastic sail;
Degreaser (Ammonia or St. Marc);
Bucket;
Hot water;
Sponge;
Painting tape;
Safety glasses;
Mouth cap.
If necessary:
Primer;
Brush for primer.
Bedroom Walls Paints: Step-by-Step
Proceed as follows.
Step 1: Protect the bed and other stuff in your bedroom against the degreaser, possibly primer and paint with plastic sheets.
Put stuff in the hallway or in another room if possible.
Step 2: Start with the dust removal of the wall and the overall bedroom. Make sure that there is as little as possible in the paintwork.
Then put a plastic sheet or old newspapers on the floor.
Open the window. Ventilate the bedroom well before you really get started.
Step 3: Fill a bucket with warm water and add degreaser to it. Put on a pair of dishwashing gloves.
In case you use ammonia, you should also wear a mask and put on safety goggles.
Immerse the sponge and grease all surfaces that you want to paint.
Allow the surfaces to dry well.
Step 4: Take a piece of sandpaper with a fine grain. A sanding machine does go a bit faster with larger surfaces.
Sand the wall lightly so that the (primer and) paint can adhere well.
Step 5: Take the vacuum cleaner again and suck up the dust from the sanding.
Step 6: Stick the edges and spots with masking tape, so that no (primer and) paint can come on.
Step 6: Apply the primer as described in the instructions.
The drying of a layer of primer costs on average 8 hours before you can overpaint it.
Step 7: Open the wall paint. In most cases you use paint or water base. You can dilute this lightly with a little water.
Stir the paint well with a paint rudder.
Step 8: Pour a little wall paint into a paint box. Start by painting the corners with a brush. Start with a thin first layer.
Step 9: Then continue pulling long tracks with the paint roller (on a telescopic pole). Apply a first thin layer.
You can apply an opaque layer of wall paint in your bedroom in one go, but that has a less good result than painting in two layers.
One thin layer also dries much better.
Step 10: Let the first layer of wall paint dry. But before you do that you can best draw the painting tape from the edges. So if you have dried the paint you do not draw paint ...
On average, it takes about 8 hours before you can paint over it.
Step 11: Stick the masking tape again in the corners and edges to protect the bedroom.
Apply a second layer of wall paint in your bedroom as described in the two steps 8 and 9 above.
Once again, remove the painting tape immediately after painting ...
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