Well ears, angels wings, flamingos, pretty much anything that ' floats your boat'.
The vast array of paint colours and finishes, wallpapers, wall stickers and made to order wall art can be mind boggling but get it right and that colour, or image can change your room from the ordinary to the extraordinary from the weak to the chic, the fine to the devine. Well you get my drift!
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| Farrow & Ball Hague Blue used on alternate walls |
With paint my advice is this, there are so many paint companies now from
www.dulux.co.uk to
www.firedearth.co.uk,
www.littlepaintcompany.co.uk even
www.MrandMrsSmith.com, the boutique hotel sight has just launched a range, but I think you do get what you pay for in terms of pigment and paint quality especially if you are going for a dark, rich colour. The days of the one colour featured wall has been superseded with people being bolder and painting an entire room or painting to a fixed point. I've recently updated the much loved Dulux Night Jewels 2 in the kitchen with a rich
www.farrowandball.co.uk Hague Blue which has a wonderful depth to it. I've also painted alternate walls, mad I hear you cry, but it really works, adding length to the room. And what's the worst that can happen -
be brave people it's only a tin of paint.
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| Faux wood wallpaper at Rockett St George |
Faux effects wall paper is really hot right now.
www.rockettstgeorge.co.uk have some of the best. Think distressed wood and metal.
www.andrewmartin.co.uk also have some real beauties. Again it pays to buy the best you can afford as the more expensive ones have a larger repeat - so giving a more realistic appearance which is what you're after and a better image depth and resolution. Choose your wall carefully. Ideally you want this on the opposite wall to the room entrance. That way it creates most impact and you view it from the furthest point. If it's behind you as you enter you already know it's not really a set of library shelves or a busy London street resplendent with double decker bus.
www.surfaceview.co.uk are one of the most forward thinking companies printing almost any image to fit your size of wall, from a classic painting to a classic car, a herd of elephants to the dyeing swan in Swan Lake and anything in between. Even your own family photos. Just be careful of the resolution when super sizing your own images.
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| Panelling in our hall |
I've been busy convincing Mr H-at-Home that panelling would look good up the stairs. He protested, and then having realised the error of his ways, got on with it. He's not done a bad job - although obviously I am the genius at work here!
Another one of the tasks my other half was issued with was to line the wall of the cloakroom in penny pieces. Yes my fabulous idea once again. Beautiful shades of bronze shimmer in the light as part of a dark and moody WC.
So people go forward with angels wings, wilder beast, pennies, panelling and even ears.
After all if walls really do have ears it seems only right to let them do the talking!
