Focus Walls

Call them focus walls or accent walls, a wall with a different colour of paint from the rest of the room can be a great look. 

Some of the things your focus wall can do for you:

• Bring a colour from another room in to increase the harmony among the rooms of your house when you want to use different colours.
• Try out an eye-popping colour before committing to it completely. Do you really want pomegranete walls in that room? Find out with one wall first. 
• Tame that eye-popping colour -- it can be completely different in a smaller dose from the effect it has on all four (or more) walls. 
• Liven up a room without repainting the whole room. You can do this a couple of times if you like to redecorate more often than you really need to paint. 
• Draw attention to one wall, either because it has the great architectural features you want to focus on or because your room doesn't have any architectural features to focus on.
• Create a special backdrop for a piece of art or furniture that calls out for special treatment. 

Just be sure to choose paint for the focus wall that responds to the same cleaning as the rest of the walls -- having to give your special wall special treatment will get old fast.