How do you brighten up a dull room? I just recently moved to my parents for the meantime. It turned out to be more of a blessing than I expected. I have the opportunity to save more, spend time with family [my mom and my little going off to college] and do more creative projects. Just to describe my room a little bit. Currently, I have old, dull white curtains, which I plan to change soon and dark green carpet that I can do nothing about. Who wouldn't be depressed? Picture plain white walls, ugly white thick curtains from the 70's from the previous owner and dark green carpet. I just had to do something about the walls because the all white was just too suffocating and depressing. I wish I had a picture of the dull white walls before it was painted and you would understand. I made changing the walls the first house projects a few months ago. I wanted something cool and creative. What is more creative than having accent walls, right? I decided to paint the main wall light blue base color with dark blue flower stencils. Boy, did I have fun doing this project. Even though it took a couple of days, to do the tedious flowers, I was in heaven. I started out with just dark blue flowers and thought, hey, why not add some colorful, smaller yellow, orange and red flowers. Let's just say, that did not work out. I spent the next few days unable to sleep. The bright colors were just too stimulating and I could not sleep. I decided to change it back and gradually began painting over the bright flowers with the light blue base and ended up with a product I love. See picture
Anyway, I like how my walls now look. I learned a couple of things through this project.
1. Blue is a naturally soothing color
2. Bright colors can be over-stimulating
3. All projects are perfected through trial and error
4. Never be afraid of messing up because there is always a chance for redemption
5. It's helpful to have a before and after picture because you appreciate the end product more
6. Lastly, the process can be just as enjoyable as the end product
