How can I tone down brightly painted walls within my living room?/?
Answers: To expand on what pebblespro is discussion about, you can win a faux glaze from a paint store i.e. opaque (semitransparent) and, when it's applied over paint, it commonly takes on the color of the innovative paint, but a few shades lighter.
The way you apply it is to use a deep-sea sponge (also available at paint stores), wet the sponge next to the glaze, and wipe it onto the painted surface. This gives a helpful of old-fashioned look (almost resembling a crushed velvet texture) and it lightens up the wall without shifting the basic tint of the productive paint.
Keep in mind that this rob quite a while, though. My wife did the 4 walls of our 13 x 19 master bedroom and it took her nearly 12 hours. But, she had to do some areas twice, because she started dab on more as she got to the other walls and had to shift over a couple of walls again to even things up. But, it really is a great effect.
You can try doing a treatment on that wall and bagging, sponging, rag a lighter color over the olive so the wall has movement and isn't purely solid green.
You can also break it up and paint either the top partially or bottom half a complementary color, and tag on a 'chair rail' where on earth the 2 colors meet, so the wall is split top/bottom.
Other than totalling a lot of wall hangings, that's in the region of all I know to do to keep hold of it from looking big and green.
Do a glazing techique to soften the effect or do stripes.
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