There are some walls in your home that might appear dull and bland. However with stencils, you can make them expressive and charming. Using stencils is a cost effective way to impart your home décor a refreshing appearance without sinking a lot of money or paint.
The colours and patterns used depend on individual choice. It is also called folk art, as it can be used for story telling in your child’s room. The key to this art form is using interesting shapes and bright colours to give the room an entirely new look. Blending is most important so using bright colour stencil is essential to add subtleness and warmth in the room.
Sometimes people use a lot of different colours without analyzing their usage in room. This makes the room look gaudy and uninteresting. Stencils should be chosen with proper consideration determining all aspects of room, wall colour and individual style, etc.
The colours and patterns used depend on individual choice. It is also called folk art, as it can be used for story telling in your child’s room. The key to this art form is using interesting shapes and bright colours to give the room an entirely new look. Blending is most important so using bright colour stencil is essential to add subtleness and warmth in the room.
Sometimes people use a lot of different colours without analyzing their usage in room. This makes the room look gaudy and uninteresting. Stencils should be chosen with proper consideration determining all aspects of room, wall colour and individual style, etc.
For children’s room you should choose vivid colours for different walls. Always decorate your walls keeping in mind the overall look you want to create.
You should keep these basic tips in mind before incorporating stencil art form on your room walls:
You should keep these basic tips in mind before incorporating stencil art form on your room walls:
- Before starting, vacate the room and remove everything from the wall.
- Decide a base colour for wall and use painter’s tape to mark the edges of the doors and windows (so they are not spoilt)
- Take stencil cards and mark the acetate to be cut, in your desired pattern. You can use anything sharp such as knife or cutter to cut stencil from the card.
- Now the designing can be started using sponge or stencil brush.
- Paint the stencils with various colours such as artistic paint, oil paint, and household latex paint etc. Anything which is available in your budget can be picked.
- During painting remember to paint inside out so as to avoid paint going underneath.
- Colours should be chosen with utmost care but do not rush because that would make the appearance fussy. Mix and match colour to make it more dimensional and interesting
- Strong adhesive can be used to stick stencils on the walls. Now apply protective coat on the stencils.
Once you are done with decorating your wall using stencils, you will feel a noticeable change in the ambiance of your room. At the end, the result depends largely on your creativity.
