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Do your walls seem dull and uninviting? Are a person who always desires about a posh living room? Consider unique wall painting techniques, like sponging, ragging, stenciling or stamping? While you don’t have experience, you can still make your rooms nice and colorful with one of these easy decorative wall painting methods.

Before painting your room, pick out a color scheme for your walls. Have in mind, most of the painting methods use two shades of the same color for their designs. If the one you are choosing uses two shades as well, pick your base color darker than usual, as your top coat which is a lighter color will make your base coat light as well.

To sponge or rag a wall, paint on your base color and let it dry thoroughly. Dip your sponge or rag in the top coat shade then and sponge or drag it across until you like the result. You have keep going this way until it’s done fully.

If you are considering using a decorative painting technique such as stenciling or stamping, you could probably give a wall paper effect bystamping or stenciling a simple design over your base coat. However, you may want to go a step further with your project and use stencils or stamps to create a faux brick or stone wall do the following. First, paint the walls with the color your choice for the mortar between the bricks or stones. Immediately after the base coat is dry, stamp or stencil your bricks or stones over the base coat. When the brick or stonework is dry, sprinkle little darker color over your faux art to give it depth and make it appear more realistic.Doing faux effects like making your walls look like they are made of plaster or suede makes the room unique from the others. Paint bases that automatically give a suede or textured effect to the walls are a shortcut that even artists use to create fun finishes.

There are thousands upon thousands of retirement homes around the country, and they vary greatly in quality. A great deal get money from the government to survive, although their are many privately funded homes also. I report last year from The Care Trust however found that the quality of government-run retirement homes was not good enough and suggested that something was done to bring them up the standard of most of the private homes.

Very recently the government has announced that they will increase their budget on retirement homes by 10% over the next 5 years. The money will be spent on getting new painted furniture into the homes and improving the overall interior design and decorations to both modernise and brighten up the buildings.

Alister Pride from The Care Trust stated that it definitely wasn’t an issue of not having high enough standards of cleanliness. “We were actually very pleased with the overall cleanliness standard that was being maintained” noted Pride. “We were more concerned that not enough money or effort was being made on making these places look nice”.People living in care homes don’t have a great deal of input into the interior design, despite many not being happy with the current one. He continued to say that they were very happy that the government had listened to their recommendations and they look forward to seeing the improvements.

The way the government has decided to tackle the problem is by creating specialist teams of designers and decorators to visit the homes. “The last thing we wanted was to just give the homes more money and watch it disappear on admin costs” stated a government spokesman. Over the coming five years the teams will actually go to these homes and bring in new furniture like dining furniture. They will also be implementing colour schemes into the buildings and replacing old and decrepit items with new pieces such as bedside tables and dining chairs.