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Living & Dining
Today living and dining rooms are most often one. This space increasingly extends to an integrated kitchen. Socio-economic and cultural evolutions have significantly reduced residential surface areas. In their wake, socialising at home has become restricted to the occupants’ inner circles. Formality has given way to conviviality, bringing down walls. This however creates the need to structure these open spaces otherwise and also to optimize the use of space. Furniture plays a major role in delimiting physical space with regards to functions. Paint significantly contributes to visual structuring. Consequently, choice of colours, degrees of brilliance and texture are all-important to set atmospheres, for accentuation, to dynamise and express the personality of that all-inclusive space.
Floor
Nowadays, floors are an integral element of an interior decoration plan. These surfaces therefore need to be addressed, dressed and decorated as such. We have a whole set of paints specially formulated for Floors. These are low-maintenance, highly resistant, water-proof and washable coatings. They definitely bring in a touch of originality to your decor. Decorative cements also offer highly aesthetic options to dress up your floors. Mauvilac represents an innovative and comprehensive brand of execution systems for their professional application.
Wood
If your woodworks require painting, you’ll find everything you require in the conventional gloss, ecological lacquers and universal paint section under Metal Surfaces. If you wish to entertain the natural beauty of your wooden furniture, staircases or flooring—Woodlife is the specialised range you need for a variety of functional solutions.
Metal
Decorative paints for metal are to be found under Metal Surfaces.
Don't Forget!
Long-lasting finishes start with flawless surfaces. You will find all it takes in terms of products and advice in our Surface Repair, Treatment & Preparation section. Perfect execution requires appropriate tools too—we provide professional equipment for one and all: check out our Paint Brushes, Rollers & Accessories section.
Kitchen
The kitchen is that part of the house which has known the most transformations over time both as concerns its functions and technological evolutions. It is the living space which presents the highest rate of equipment. The kitchen has indeed wholly turned into a living space—it is everybody’s place and that which has evolved into the dining room too. Whether it is still walled off or is an open kitchen-dining room; whether it’s a three in-one: kitchen-living-dining or four in-one including the TV room, the kitchen is the axis around which life revolves. It is the nervous centre, the heart setting the pace, the time-keeper. Its interior architecture and decoration focus increasing attention and its values extend beyond functionality to embrace aesthetic and emotional values. This room now expresses not only lifestyle but also a whole new art of living.
Floor
Nowadays, floors are an integral element of an interior decoration plan. These surfaces therefore need to be addressed, dressed and decorated as such. We have a whole set of paints specially formulated for Floors. These are low-maintenance, highly resistant, water-proof and washable coatings. They definitely bring in a touch of originality to your decor. Decorative cements also offer highly aesthetic options to dress up your floors. Mauvilac represents an innovative and comprehensive brand of execution systems for their professional application.
Wood
If your woodworks require painting, you’ll find everything you require in the conventional gloss, ecological lacquers and universal paint section under Metal Surfaces. If you wish to entertain the natural beauty of your wooden furniture, staircases or flooring—Woodlife is the specialised range you need for a variety of functional solutions.
Metal
Decorative paints for metal are to be found under Metal Surfaces.
Don't Forget!
Long-lasting finishes start with flawless surfaces. You will find all it takes in terms of products and advice in our Surface Repair, Treatment & Preparation section. Perfect execution requires appropriate tools too—we provide professional equipment for one and all: check out our Paint Brushes, Rollers & Accessories section.
Bedroom
Bedrooms rhyme with peace and intimacy; this dictates a suitable decor to conjure it up. This is the room where you reconnect with yourself, where you restore yourself. It is therefore most important to take great care in the choice of its colour scheme and finishing. These have a direct bearing on the ambiance and mood it weaves. A bedroom is a sensitive room—you therefore need to choose thoughtfully.
Floor
Nowadays, floors are an integral element of an interior decoration plan. These surfaces therefore need to be addressed, dressed and decorated as such. We have a whole set of paints specially formulated for Floors. These are low-maintenance, highly resistant, water-proof and washable coatings. They definitely bring in a touch of originality to your decor. Decorative cements also offer highly aesthetic options to dress up your floors. Mauvilac represents an innovative and comprehensive brand of execution systems for their professional application.
Wood
If your woodworks require painting, you’ll find everything you require in the conventional gloss, ecological lacquers and universal paint section under Metal Surfaces. If you wish to entertain the natural beauty of your wooden furniture, staircases or flooring—Woodlife is the specialised range you need for a variety of functional solutions.
Metal
Decorative paints for metal are to be found under Metal Surfaces.
Don't Forget!
Long-lasting finishes start with flawless surfaces. You will find all it takes in terms of products and advice in our Surface Repair, Treatment & Preparation section. Perfect execution requires appropriate tools too—we provide professional equipment for one and all: check out our Paint Brushes, Rollers & Accessories section.
Bathroom
Water vapour, condensation, direct exposure to water and humidity and subsequent fungus—these are the daily risks to which is exposed your bathroom paint. The most exposed are obviously those areas directly exposed to splashing, i.e. the walls closest to the shower cubicle, bath tub and wash basin. One must therefore choose decorative paints that offer the most resistance—either waterproof, including fungicidal components and washable. Moreover, it is also important to ensure that the best possible hygienic conditions are ensured here.
Floor
Nowadays, floors are an integral element of an interior decoration plan. These surfaces therefore need to be addressed, dressed and decorated as such. We have a whole set of paints specially formulated for Floors. These are low-maintenance, highly resistant, water-proof and washable coatings. They definitely bring in a touch of originality to your decor. Decorative cements also offer highly aesthetic options to dress up your floors. Mauvilac represents an innovative and comprehensive brand of execution systems for their professional application.
Wood
If your woodworks require painting, you’ll find everything you require in the conventional gloss, ecological lacquers and universal paint section under Metal Surfaces. If you wish to entertain the natural beauty of your wooden furniture, staircases or flooring—Woodlife is the specialised range you need for a variety of functional solutions.
Metal
Decorative paints for metal are to be found under Metal Surfaces.
Don't Forget!
Long-lasting finishes start with flawless surfaces. You will find all it takes in terms of products and advice in our Surface Repair, Treatment & Preparation section. Perfect execution requires appropriate tools too—we provide professional equipment for one and all: check out our Paint Brushes, Rollers & Accessories section.
Dominant Colour
The dominant colour sets the mood of the room and is that one which will make up 50% of the overall space, ideally.
Enhancing Colour
This can be on a wall panel, in the colour of the curtains or even on the floor and is chosen from the same nuance as the dominant colour to enhance it. It should occupy 25% of the overall space.
Accent Colours
Accent colours are best left to accessories as they bring in visual diversity and focal points: flower pots, cushions, wall pictures, to name just a few. They are streaks of either contrasting colours or echoes of the dominant colour. The best is to compose about 25% of overall space from these colours.
Hering’s colour wheel, is used and acknowledged across the world as the best colour combination system. Hering’s colour wheel includes a fourth primary colour, yellow, in addition to the three which the human eye identifies as independent colours, namely red, blue and green. Hering also classifies white and black as basic primary colours. He describes his colour wheel as one translating the colours which are naturally perceived by the human eye. Indeed, this is the colour system which had been endorsed as the basis for the NCS system (Natural Colour System). The NCS system is today the international benchmarking system as regards colour combination.
Harmonious Colours
When two primary colours—either red, blue, green or yellow—are mixed, they produce the secondary colours, i.e. violet, blue-green, orange and lime green. Just go round Hering’s colour wheel and you will notice that adjacent colours are naturally in harmony.
Complementary Colours
On Hering’s colour wheel, colours that are to be found opposite one another are not in harmony. Still, one vibrates with the other. These opposites are the complementary colours—they enhance one another. Making use of complementary colours creates visual dynamism.
Optical Effects
Enlarge: Colours can, by sheer optical effect, apparently enlarge the volume of a room. Enlarging colours are generally pale and cold colours. One can also paint two facing wall panels in a pale colour and the other two in a darker colour. Light up: If you want to bring in more light into a room, paint the ceiling in white or ivory and paint the walls with pale colours. Warm up: To set a cosy mood, paint the ceiling in a warmer colour than that used for the walls. Cover up: To cover up surface imperfections, particularly those of the ceiling, you should choose matt finishing.