Contemporary styles in wall painting don’t just talk of fashion trends, the choices come with improved software - Ranjani Govind

After all those years of panting your walls with unexciting and muted and hues, shade cards with innumerable choices added zing that helped the paint industry offer the exact creams and greens. Now we are several shades better off, what with colour tint technologies of offering a perplexing list to meet the fussy demands.

“Any kind of experimenting is good as we get more adventures doing up our walls,” explains Arvind Bhat who is just building his home in Sadashivnagar. “One wall with bold and the others with matching lights are something of a fashion now. The harmony is in bringing together an aesthetic wall make over, as showpieces to take a back seat.”

“I was tired of searching for a good art- painting, every artist seemed to be going above my budget. When Asian Paints came up with a textured paints, my foyer was made up with a brush effect which had a double tone. I am happy I settled for this,” Nandita says.

Colour assortments available on shade cards are passé. New - age wall décor speaks of dimension, drama, texture and more zest. Some uncanny imagination tools that talk art and a colourful palette are enough to make your walls speak a contemporary language, “life- energy” flows. It has specific colours to suit the deferent direction in a house/office.

The upgraded lifestyle brand called Lewis Berger (the man who started Berger Paints in 1970 in Britain) now has classic and designer graphics expression for interior wall finishes are fungus-proof, water-resistant and suitable for varying ambient temperatures. Addition of special plasticizers in their new-generation paint also helps cover up small cracks in the walls.

It’s royal, these effects

Almost all exhibitions have Asian Paints demonstration of their brushing effect that creates aesthetic patterns on the wall. The appeal is not just for eye, one should spare a thought for the ingenuity of the effect created and the artist who wields the same on your walls, say company representatives at the exhibition. Asian paints’ Royal Play, an exclusive range of special effects finishes, helps one on decorating without other wall enhancers.

Says a printed literature of Asian Paints, “Our durable emulsion paints are normally used to highlight certain portion of the house for extra focus. The combinations can be dealt with six effects (ragging, brushing sponging)