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Showing posts with label painting service nyc. Show all posts

Friday, December 13, 2013

Fun Painting Techniques for Contemporary Homes



Gone are the days of using neutral colors to adorn your homes, today, there are several fun techniques that can re-create your spaces with new designs and ideas.
Residential painters in NYC are commonly offering such services - all you need is some research and study.
Here’s telling you about fun painting techniques for contemporary homes – Take a look!
Glazes and Washes
While glazes are oil based paints mixed with linseed oil to give walls a glossy look, washes are simple latex paints that have been thinned down with water to give the walls a more delicate and fresh look.
Washes might leave behind brush marks, but that only adds to the depth and texture of the paint.
Sponge Painting
Sponge painting is a simply painting technique that initiates with the application of solid base color. You may choose to apply a wash or a glaze over the base. Take a dampened sponge and create a mottled look. You may apply several coats of paint with sponge, just stop when you think there’s too much cluttering of paint on the walls.
Rag Painting and Rolling
For producing dramatic effects on the walls such as crushed velvet, watered silk, chamois leather and so on, we use the rag painting and rolling. Begin by applying a solid base, and once it dries, dip a crumpled piece of cloth in paint and blot it on the walls.
For rolling, take a rag and roll into a sausage with varying tightness at different places.  Damp it, roll through a glaze paint and coat the walls.
Call painting service NYC  to learn more about such techniques and the effects they can produce on your walls.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Halloween Home Decorating Ideas 2013

Halloween approaching means it’s already the time of year when you really need to decorate your homes with things that best complement the event – spooky and scary! Kids wait for the occasion more than anybody else, and they deserve to have as much fun as elders in the family!
Listed below are some tried and tested home decorating ideas for Halloween this year:  
 Bloody Handprints!
This time, nothing will be as scary (and interesting at the same time) for your kids as bloody handprints everywhere on the mirrors and windows inside your home. The process is quite simple – use a few sketches of a distorted human hand and paint using red food coloring and Elmer’s glue! Next, paste them on mirrors on windows and in the bathroom.

Shadowy Lamps
Take one of your table lamps, and add some shadowy figures to make it give a Halloween style scary look. This is probably the easiest and cheapest idea for home decoration! Since you almost certainly have plain paper and scissors at home, draw some spooky creatures, cut the drawn shapes and fix them on the lamp. Try figures like bats or owls that symbolize eeriness.
 
Dancing Ghosts in Lawn
Take some Styrofoam balls, attach them to the lengths of wood and cover with cheesecloth. Use a light fabric so that it easily floats in the wind, giving the ghosts a ‘dancing’ look. Create about six dancing ghosts and tie them together. Place them around a pole in the lawn. They look amazing on Halloween! 

Hanging Bats
Use black craft foam to make hanging bats. They can be hanged on the tree in front of your home. Again, sketch the figures and cut them out cleanly. You can even ask your kids to join in to help you with easy projects like this one!