Blended Families

 Let's talk about Blended Families - families of colors, anyway. How do you take a plain piece of furniture and add DRAMA without just throwing bling on it? BLENDING.

Blending is both harder than it looks and yet so easy to use to make a plain jane piece into something magnifico.

Take this cabinet, for example, done by Erin from Erin Rochon Design. Nice piece, right? Sure. But now, adding the paint - in this case, same color family but different shades - and blend them together. WOWSA manelli! 

You can blend: 

  • complementary colors
  • ombre effect (various shades of one color light to dark or color to white or color to black)
  • opposing (contrasting) colors -- this is the hardest to pull off because often you end up muddying the colors to brown (needs less actual blending and more "overlapping" or criss-crossing effect to not muddle the colors)

The biggest tip is using the CLEAN big fluffy brush to blend! Clean so you don't mix the colors where you don't want them, and big and mushy to mush that paint to a smooooooth transition. Like this big arse brush: https://dixiebellepaint.com/best-dang-brush/  is a great tool for blending. 



Follow Erin's steps here to create your own DRAMA without any recriminations! Keep the drama for the furniture where it should be.

https://blog.dixiebellepaint.com/blended-hutch-with-magnolia-garden-transfer/



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