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After years of revamping and refurbishing, you may find yourself with an abundance of half open paint pots, now collecting dust.
Typically, painting a room will require around five litres of paint for two coats, meaning that it’s difficult to find a use for leftovers once the job is done.
Thankfully, half a pot of paint can be all you need to elevate the look of a room by using some innovative techniques and will save you some extra cash along the way.
To help put leftover paint to good use, our Technical Advisor, Jon, has provided five design tips to completely transform the look of a room with minimal product. He also shares the estimates of the amount of paint each job requires.
Estimated amount of paint needed: Up to one litre
If you want to inject some colour into a more neutral room, painting skirting boards, window or door trims might be just the trick.
Keeping the walls clean with neutral paint and adding in pops of colour will only require around one litre of paint for each surface. Recently, dark window trims have been a huge trend; it provides contrast and depth to add some drama to the room.
When painting skirting boards, windows and door trims, a primer is recommended to help the paint adhere. However, if you apply the paint in thin, even coats, it will work just as well.
To avoid uneven coverage, don’t overload the brush or roller with paint and allow each coat to dry completely before applying the next one.
Estimated amount of paint needed: 1.2 litres
Panelling is still a major trend. It consists of wooden boards, painted in the colour of your choosing, and drilled into a wall to provide texture and dimension to the walls, and what’s better is that it only requires less than half a pot of paint.
Granted, the amount of paint is dependent on the size of the wall, but if half of an average 4.5m x 4.5m wall is being painted, half a pot should be fine. Another benefit of panelling is that you can get creative with colour. Recently, we’ve noticed sage green, soft greys and navy to be a huge hit in creating the Victorian shaker style panelling.
The muted off-tones create a bold enough statement not to distract from your furniture, but to compliment it instead. But still, any colour of your choosing will work; a contrasting colour to the neutral walls is the key to its effect.
Estimated amount of paint needed: one litre
Upcycling and revamping furniture is becoming more and more popular! Take your remaining pot of paint and give a healthy coating to your chairs, bedside tables, dining table legs or coffee table.
If you have eggshell paint to hand, this is the best for painting wooden furniture as it is known to be more durable; other paints may require a finisher such as furniture wax or glaze to help them withstand heavy use.
It is recommended to save enough paint for two coats because painting over furniture can create streaks.
Painting murals and decorative shapes are great for kids’ rooms.
Depending on how creative you want to be, you may need multiple colour pots, but just one colour would work too if you don’t have multiple shades.
Abstract swirls, arched shape murals, geometric shapes or contrasting dark line art can all be achieved with around one litre of paint.
Simply sketch out what shape or design you want with masking tape and paint in between the lines, or be brave and freehand it.
Leave the paint to dry and peel off the masking tape to reveal the design.
With similar effects to panelling, colour blocking and two-tone walls are both great ways to layer contrasting tones. Colour blocking can be a single stripe on the wall or something more substantial like halving the wall to create two tones. If you have an open-plan room which is used for different purposes, consider painting just a small section to incorporate some colour.
This is commonly done in large rooms where a living space is shared with an office or a kitchen, but it can really break up the elements of the room and seemingly makes areas have their own dedicated space. Of course, the amount of paint being used is down to how large the space is, but a reasonably small section of a wall should require up to one litre of paint.
Sometimes, the small and simple painting tricks are the most eye-catching and actually need very little paint at all. Whether you have leftover paint pots from previous projects or you’re trying to be a little savvier with your redecorating, there are a number of simple yet effective ways to use up small amounts of paint to revamp your space.
We hope these decorating techniques and tips from our Technical Advisor, Jon, come in handy and help you use up a few half pots of paint in your shed.
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