I am painting a bathroom in a bar, and I was wondering what some good ideas were out there to dress up the walls? I don’t want to use wallpaper, or put up wood trim.
If its a ladies room how about stenciling? Mens room maybe a spongepainting or feathering with dark or lighter colors depending on your color base backround References :
Your first consideration should be the decor of the bar and the effect that you want to have on patrons. You can achieve just about anything with paint and imagination. References :
Try going into a site called glidden.com. They have a ton of features on there that allow you to paint any wall whatever color you want and see what it looks like after its done. I think they have wall paper on there too. If that doesn’t work, try this. Go into Google or Yahoo image search. Key in wallpaper or wallpaper borders or whatever you think best describes the item you’re looking for. Voila, you now have thousands of photographs to choose from. Most images link to a website for more information. References : http://www.blanketscoverssofas.com/fleece-throw-blanket.html
Paint the bathroom midnight blue on the walls. Load a large paint brush with very little white paint just on the tips. Hold the brush upright and run your finger over the bristles to allow the white paint to ‘flick’ onto the walls to look like specks of stars…. very tiny stars.
Let it dry.
Come back and paint the midnight blue over any imperfect or blobby looking stars.
Then …..
Paint the city. Use different sizes of rectangles in varying heights to make the ‘buildings’…. just solid color gray. Then after they dry… add yellow rectangles on the buildings to act as ‘windows’. You can make these as elaborate or as simple as you wish depending on your skill and ability with a paint brush.
After this is done…. find books that have the words
‘Party all night’ in different languages.
Use a paint pen so you have more control over the ‘writing’ part.
Write the phrase on the blue part in white paint in different fonts and different sizes all over the mural in different areas. One may be up in the sky in English… one may be an advertisement on the building in French…one may be on the side in Japanese….
Very contemporary look at not a lot of cost. Even the worst of artists could do this. References :
December 13th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
a nice mirror
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December 13th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
get drunk patrons to paint on them
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December 13th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
If its a ladies room how about stenciling? Mens room maybe a spongepainting or feathering with dark or lighter colors depending on your color base backround
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December 13th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Use a stencil to paint some kind of pretty design. Since it’s a bathroom, perhaps a series of seashells and fish is what you want.
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December 13th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
You can make wall decals out of that felt with the adhesive backing. Those are super cute.
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December 13th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
You can use furniture stain to get an old world look and it is really cheap. just rub it on in a circular motion till it looks good.
Also, you can buy a 5 gallon jug of joint compound and use it like you are icing a cake.
It will give a heavy stucco look and is also on the cheap.
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December 13th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Your first consideration should be the decor of the bar and the effect that you want to have on patrons. You can achieve just about anything with paint and imagination.
References :
December 14th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Try going into a site called glidden.com. They have a ton of features on there that allow you to paint any wall whatever color you want and see what it looks like after its done. I think they have wall paper on there too. If that doesn’t work, try this. Go into Google or Yahoo image search. Key in wallpaper or wallpaper borders or whatever you think best describes the item you’re looking for. Voila, you now have thousands of photographs to choose from. Most images link to a website for more information.
References :
http://www.blanketscoverssofas.com/fleece-throw-blanket.html
December 14th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Paint a mural.
Very easy to do.
Paint the bathroom midnight blue on the walls. Load a large paint brush with very little white paint just on the tips. Hold the brush upright and run your finger over the bristles to allow the white paint to ‘flick’ onto the walls to look like specks of stars…. very tiny stars.
Let it dry.
Come back and paint the midnight blue over any imperfect or blobby looking stars.
Then …..
Paint the city. Use different sizes of rectangles in varying heights to make the ‘buildings’…. just solid color gray. Then after they dry… add yellow rectangles on the buildings to act as ‘windows’. You can make these as elaborate or as simple as you wish depending on your skill and ability with a paint brush.
After this is done…. find books that have the words
‘Party all night’ in different languages.
Use a paint pen so you have more control over the ‘writing’ part.
Write the phrase on the blue part in white paint in different fonts and different sizes all over the mural in different areas. One may be up in the sky in English… one may be an advertisement on the building in French…one may be on the side in Japanese….
Very contemporary look at not a lot of cost. Even the worst of artists could do this.
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