Colour your home with ombre!

Ombre [French] means shaded in gradual hues and the ombre paint technique continues to be a hot trend around the globe.

14/06/2018

Painted furniture has become a hot trend in recent years, and using the ombre paint technique incorporates gradual hues of a single colour from light to dark, or vice-versa. It's a fun way to give furniture a new lease on life and also to bring the intensity of colour into a plain room.

You can use any acrylic paint to give furniture an ombre look, or make your own chalk paint and tint in ombre colours taken from a single paint swatch, which is by far the cheapest alternative, especially when using 3 or more colours.

To give you an idea of how different colours can work when using the ombre paint technique, we scoured Pinterest for some of the best furniture makeovers we could find.

The ombre paint techniques works extremely well on furniture with drawers, and the more drawers the better. Pop into your nearest Builders or paint store and visit the paint section to view the almost unlimited amount of colours available for your project. It's always a good idea to choose a single paint colour and then work from the colour swatch to select hues (lighter / darker) shades of the same colour. In this way you can avoid a sharp contrast between the different colours and have that gradual shading that has made ombre so popular.

Painting furniture is a great way to give dated furniture a second chance and to give secondhand furniture a new lease on life. Whereas these pieces wouldn't generally fit in with your decor, giving them a painted finish immediately updates them. Plus, when you paint your own furniture you get to choose the exact colours to transform the pieces, colours that would look good in a particular room or that would create a focal piece.

If you're keen to paint a piece of furniture using the ombre method all you need to do is choose your main colour. Since the colours used for ombre paint technique are all taken from the same colour swatch, there's no getting confused over the colours you will use - and once you've selected your main colour choice you can have the rest of the colours mixed. 

Be inspired by these beautiful pieces of furniture painted using the ombre painting method... No prizes for guessing which colour choice is the most popular at the moment!