Bedroom feature wall

sper

Hello everyone,

I need some help wrt choosing Color for kids room feature wall. I am after a neutral tone Color and want to know if I should go with low-sheen or Matt finish Color. And if I want to add glitter which one would be a good choice.

BTW I tried a light purple low-sheen with brush and it doesn’t look good at all. 
thanks

MitchellMc

Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community @sper. It's brilliant to have you join us and many thanks for your question about colour selection.

Choosing colours is a very personal choice, so it's quite challenging for someone to suggest colours that you find appealing and that match your decor'. I'd suggest you start by googling kids room colour palettes. You'll find thousands of options and examples of their use. 

Have you tried the Dulux colour app? It allows you to take a picture of the room and then virtually paint the walls. 

Low-sheen will be much easier to clean marks off than matt paint. So, for a child's room, I'd be going with low-sheen.

You can use Dulux 500ml Design Glitter Effect Diamond Paint for your glitter effect. This will give you a shimmer effect but won't resemble children's craft glitter with a much larger particle. You could do a test section to see how Dulux 300g Duramax Multi Glitter Spray Paint goes over water-based wall paint. However, it's designed to go over Dulux Duramax topcoats, so I'm not sure if it's going to react unusually. If you're willing to experiment, you could try mixing standard craft glitter with your wall paint. I'd do a base coat without it, and then the final coat with the glitter added. You'd need a substantial amount to see it in the final coat.

Let me mention @prettyliving and @Tara86 to see if they have any thoughts.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mitchell