Do your walls seem dull and uninviting? Do you long for a cozy, welcoming room? Consider decorative wall painting techniques, such as sponging, ragging, stenciling or stamping. Even if you have no experience, you can brighten even dullest room quickly and cheaply with one of these easy decorative wall painting techniques.

Before painting your room, pick out a color scheme for your walls. When you chose your paint, remember that many painting techniques use two shades of one color. If you are using one of techniques that does use two shades of color, you can pick a darker color than you normally would chose for your base color, since lighter top color will make final result much lighter.

To sponge or rag a wall, paint on your base color and let it dry thoroughly. Then, dip your sponge or rag into lighter paint color and sponge or drag lighter color over base coat until you are satisfied with effect. If you are unhappy with your final result, you can repaint any areas that you don’t like with base coat. Once repainted area is dry, repeat faux painting technique.

When you’re decorating kid’s rooms, you can really save yourself a lot of time and money by having a budget and a simple plan. It doesn’t matter what age your child is, if you’re thinking about decorating his or her room, now is time to make that plan.

The foundation of your decorating plan should be flexible enough to work with several themes over years. By foundation I mean flooring, paint or other wall treatment and furniture. You could also carry this one step further and consider window treatments. If you have these basics in place, it will so much easier to just get a few new items in theme of choice, and make a quick change in your kid’s rooms.