If Those Walls Could Talk: A Few Tips for Improving Your Wall Space

Renovating the walls in your home can transform the entire feel. Does your bedroom feel dim and gloomy? Brighten it up with a strategic choice in paint. If your living room feels boring and outdated, why not come up with a cool photo arrangement as the focal point? Here’s some fabulous, budget friendly ideas:

One idea that I’m in love with right now is shelved photos and art. It’s a great new twist on the traditional way of hanging pictures. A long ledge shelf that matches the color scheme of the room works best. They can be purchased at an affordable price at Ikea and Amazon.com

This look works best by taking frames of different sizes and layering them upon the shelf. To make the look more eclectic, use frames in different colors.

Or create a more streamlined look sing the same colored frames.

This tip from Better Homes and Gardens is a very quick and simple way to lend a spacious, bright look to a room.

An over-sized mirror is an immediate solution to a blank wall. Look for one with an unfinished frame and paint it to your liking. Bonus: if you feel like changing the overall color scheme of the room, you can always repaint the frame of the mirror! While over-sized mirrors can be pricey, you can find them for good prices if you’re patient. Again, Ikea has some of the best prices.

Is there a particular room in your house that you’ve been avoiding because of dim lighting? To most people it’s obvious that a room that gets little or no sunlight, should not be painted in dark shades. However, what many don’t realize is that while dark shades are off limits, painting a dark room with white are pastel shades is also a big DON’T. Because light colored walls don’t actually provide light, you are doing the overall aesthetic of the room a disservice. You’ll have to use artificial lighting in the room no matter what, and you won’t be able to admire the uniqueness of a pale shade without the presence of direct sunlight. The answer to the dark room dilemma is to select a mid-tone shade. These are the shades literally located towards the middle of a color strip.