Metallic paints inspiration

Metallic paint is becoming increasingly popular if you want to mix contemporary and heritage to your home. Here’s some inspiration.

If you’re thinking of refreshing your home, you may not be entirely convinced shine and sparkle paint is the way to go. However, if used in the correct way, metallic paint can add interesting detail to a home. 

Crown Paint have put together their top picks that will bring a blend of shimmer and interest to your home. The full range of Crown Paint is available at BJ Mullen.

Granite Top 

Grey shades are ever popular but if you are looking for a  grey  with a twist, Granite Top Metallic emulsion provides an alternative to a standard matt finish. Perfectly on-trend, the Granite Top paint is designed shimmer in the light for a stunning feature wall, stencil or detail.  

Rose Gold

If you’re looking for something a little more feminine, our Rose Gold is the perfect addition for feature walls, stripes and stencils. 

Rose Gold paint shimmers with a metallic finish that will brighten your space, providing an interesting focal point to any room. 

Copper 

If you’re feeling adventurous, Copper metallic paint provides a stunning backdrop to a room. The paint creates a lustrous look of metallic shine to your walls and combined with a matt emulsion, makes an interesting contrast.   Copper Metallic paint is the perfect way to bring a glowing feeling of warmth to the room, a sure fire way to impress your guests, and still provide a soothing place relax.  

Striking

To introduce just a touch of our metallic paint, use Striking to create a metallic stripe. 

Horizontal stripes can be edgy and work really well in a hallway to help elongate  the space without sacrificing style. 

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How to achieve a beautiful feature wall.

When it comes to a feature wall – it should be a stand out wall that’s nice and colourful.

When it comes to decorating, feature walls are one of the oldest tricks in the book; they enable you to accentuate architectural features such as alcoves or chimney breasts. Often when people think about decorating, there is the assumption that an all-over paint job is required to activate change. However, a feature wall is the easiest way to introduce colour into your scheme without the need paint every wall.

When picking your feature wall, the best place to start is by assessing which side of the room is least cluttered by furniture. Chimney breasts are the obvious choice if you have them as they are naturally the room’s focal point, however if this is not an option, pick the wall with the least distractions. This ensures you won’t be competing with furniture lines or patterns on furnishings.

Depending on how bold you wish to be, pick a contrasting shade to the other three walls. Feature walls often work well in richer colours, so do not afraid to make a statement. More traditional feature walls will use one tone to a single wall. However, to give the room a more contemporary and unique feel, why not try using more than one shade, extending the colour beyond the borders and around the corner? Colours you wouldn’t normally put together often make for the most interesting schemes. Therefore, opting for more unconventional pairings will transform your space as the combinations push and pull against one another.

As an alternative to block colours or graphical shapes, pattern is also an easy way to instantly add playfulness and personality into your home. Depending on the size of your feature wall and your level of skill, why not opt for an impressionist affect through wide brush strokes? It doesn’t need to be an exact science and the end result will be something entirely unique. Alternatively, there is such a rich variety of stencils available now, so you can create something bespoke without the need for any artistic sensibility.

The joy of a feature wall is that you can layer; simply add more colour to a scheme if it feels empty or paint over combinations that don’t work.

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How to incorporate colour

Are you looking to get out of your neutral colour comfort zone?  Want to add some interest and focal points without having to decide on a whole feature wall? Or even if you just want to tie your colour scheme together with some highlights and accents, sometimes the best ways to incorporate colour into your space are the least obvious ones.

Don’t be put off using colour in your home if you’re not attracted to the traditional feature wall layout, there are plenty of ways to introduce a brighter scheme, add accents and highlight features of your space.

Try painting your woodwork in a contrasting or bright shade to stand out against plain walls. You could even take this one step further and paint your window frame a different colour to your skirting boards.  This can have an amazing effect on a room when paired with complementary blinds as you can see the whole surround.

For a more modern look for painted wood work try using a lighter or darker shade from the same tonal palette as your wall, like this bedroom in Mustard Jar with woodwork finished in Soft Shadow, Non Drip Satin.

And finally if your looking to make a bigger impact an alternative take on the feature wall is to divide your space using colour, for example painting the bottom half of the wall in a different colour to the top, such as this kitchen done in Soft Shadow (top) and Chartreuse Mix (bottom).

For expert advice and a full range of paint and accessories, please call into BJ Mullen.