If you want to make a statement in your home, a deep & dramatic black accent wall will never fail you. Ever!
First of all what is an accent wall. An accent wall is a single wall in a room that is a different color than the rest of the room. You can either use a paint or wallpaper to highlight this wall. It is also known as a featured wall which is a great way to experiment on a bold color.
Darker walls that would otherwise make a room feel smaller will make a room feel bigger when you use them on an accent wall.
This is the wall that I chose to experiment on. It's not too wide and real easy to change back to a basic white wall if it turns out bad. So far I've only used some floral murals on it as shown on the photo below. But that got so boring real quick so I decided to go bold and paint it black.
So I removed all the stickers/murals and sanded the wall to make sure everything is smooth before I start doing this project.
And I didn't want to just paint it black and hang frames on this accent wall. I wanted to put up my collection of fashion books instead of them just sitting on my shelves so I searched for long narrow shelves. And as always, I'd rather upcycle so I searched online for used ones and found someone selling 4 of them that are the exact measurement I was looking for on Craigslist just for $30! Not only am I saving money, I'm also saving the environment.
I used a liquid sander deglosser instead of manually sanding. This saves a lot of time and not messy at all. As soon as the shelves were dry, I painted it the same color as I'm painting the wall. I gave the shelves 2-3 coats of paint.
Then I lined them up and measured them to be in the center of the wall, horizontally & vertically taking into consideration the length and size of my books and accessories I will be putting on the shelves.
After putting painter's tape on the ceiling and the sides of the wall that I want to keep white, I started painting. I painted the wall 2-3 coats of black paint.
Then the fun part, decorating and accessorizing. A few of the decors were made by me. I will make sure to link those below later.
And the finished product!!!
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