A feature wall is a simple way to highlight and draw attention to an area of a room in your home, and add a bit of flare to a currently monochromatic or dull room. This technique of defining a unique space, highlighting a piece of artwork, or emphasizing an architectural feature in your home can really add depth, colour, and personality to the room.
If you like colour but are too afraid to go bold in a room, a feature wall is a great alternative; it allows you to pick a bold colour without the commitment of painting your entire room. Feature walls can also help flow colour from one room to the next when you have a large open concept space.
Don’t forget that feature walls don’t necessarily have to be exclusively wall surfaces. Sometimes painting the ceiling, support beams, or the trim in a room is a great way to add a splash of colour as well. Remember that feature walls are meant to highlight a room – so choose the most unique thing in the room and emphasize it with some colour.
Feature walls are a great alternative to completely repainting a room, and because you only need to focus on one wall or specific element, they are inexpensive to create. The City Painters are a great example of a Toronto-based company that can help you spruce up any room in your home – even on a budget – using feature walls
When choosing the colour for your feature wall, consider colours that you already see in the room. Pulling colours from fabrics, artwork, unique appliances, or accessories that already occupy space in the room will help make the room seem more cohesive when you’re finished painting.
How much colour is too much? Start small with your selection process of which spaces in the room should be painted. You can always paint more elements such as the trim, but you don’t want to turn around and realize you went too big in the room.