Loving Color: 5 Ways to Decorate With Paint Chips
Turn those also-ran paint strips into conversation-starting art and accessories for your home
A fresh coat of paint is one of the quickest and easiest ways to transform a room. But deciding on which color to use is another story. Even if you have the shade and hue narrowed down, there are still dozens upon dozens of choices — all of which seem to look exactly the same after a few days. The samples can start to pile up as you debate over which color is just right.
After all is said and done, odds are you have more than a few remaining paint chips lying around. Don't just recycle these colorful pieces of paper! The shape and gradation make these leftovers perfect fodder for several colorful DIYs around the house. These 5 bloggers came up with their own clever ways to use up the paint chips in their homes.
After all is said and done, odds are you have more than a few remaining paint chips lying around. Don't just recycle these colorful pieces of paper! The shape and gradation make these leftovers perfect fodder for several colorful DIYs around the house. These 5 bloggers came up with their own clever ways to use up the paint chips in their homes.
Sally from SallyTV used to be an interior designer, so she still has thousands of paint chips from old projects on file. She wanted to do something creative with them instead of just tossing them out, so instead of painting her dining room, she used her paint chips to create a unique and textural wall installation.
She attached each paint chip to the wall with double-stick tape, leaving some unflattened to look more like a casual inspiration board than formal wallpaper.
Read more about Sally's paint chip ideas
She attached each paint chip to the wall with double-stick tape, leaving some unflattened to look more like a casual inspiration board than formal wallpaper.
Read more about Sally's paint chip ideas
If you had a smaller-scale project in mind, try your hand at this DIY paint chip calendar by Lori from Hey… Things Change! cut squares from leftover paint chips and pasted them on a Crayola floor pad. Using different hues for each page mixes it up a bit and make it a fun craft for her kids to do each month.
Check out Lori's complete DIY
Check out Lori's complete DIY
This eye-catching artwork was featured in recent Houzz tour on Heather from The Lovely Cupboard's home. She chose paint samples all in the same color family — pinks, oranges and purples, and cut them into triangles. After sorting them by color and hue, she used extra-strength glue sticks to glue them to the posterboard for a chic piece of art.
Check out Heather's DIY
Check out Heather's DIY
Erin from Landsdowne Life created a fish-scale-like piece of art for her living room. Instead of cutting her extra paint chips into triangles as Heather did, Erin used a big paper puncher to punch out hundreds of dime-sized dots. She arranged them in a scalloping pattern on a red wood panel, and glued them down with Mod Podge.
Read Erin's full DIY
Tell us: What do you do with leftover paint chips?
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Read Erin's full DIY
Tell us: What do you do with leftover paint chips?
More DIYs:
Fluffy White Paper Lantern
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Outdoor Winter Table
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