subject: Making Your Home Your Own [print this page] Making Your Home Your Own Making Your Home Your Own
So you have just purchased or rented your own home and you are ready to move in.
A person's home is an extension of their personality, perhaps not in size or expense rating, but certainly in the way the home is decorated and the tiny features and splashes of colour.
Some landlords (if you are renting) might not want to let you paint the walls any colour and might request that you stick to natural colours. If this is the case and you really want to paint your walls a bright primary colour, ask them if they would let you do this on the condition that you return the wall to white when you move out. If the answer is still no then you are going to have to get creative in adding colour to the walls.
A massive painting will do the trick. You can purchase a giant canvass (or have one made) and then splash random colours onto it that represent the colours you would have liked to have on the wall. Canvas can be made in any size. Just ask around and find a canvas maker.
A stretch of fabric could also be used to colour your wall. Much like wall paper is used. You can have a canvas maker stretch the fabric onto a canvass for you to keep it stiff and unwrinkled while hanging on your wall.
If you are able to paint any colour you wish on your walls, keep in mind that with bright or heavy colours less is more. Instead of painting all of the walls paint only one as a feature. Lets say you painted the largest wall in your dining room red. A simple black and white photograph printed on canvas (or other materials) would be a great compliment for the wall without over doing the extremity of having a red wall.
If you have a red wall pick a neutral colour for your couches and then match the wall or compliment the wall with your throw pillows. Select a handful of colours and work your furniture and accessories around those colours in order to have a theme.
If you are the type of person who likes to change things around often then I suggest a neutral base (walls and large furniture like couches) and some very colourful richly textured paintings, pillows, throws, carpets or mats, vases etc. You can keep a selection of these things in various colours and when you are bored simply swop them out with a different set of colours.
