Fabulous walls don't have to cost a fortune. Today, virtually all paint companies offer the materials that allow you to wash your walls with translucent color or add texture or pattern to plain surfaces.
Light, bright, animated, subdued, aged--whatever mood you want for a room, you can use paint and decorative techniques to help create it.
Faux and decorative techniques allow you to fine-tune plain paint to give your rooms just the look you want. These changes can be subtle, with translucent color layered over a similar shade of opaque paint, or bold and brassy thanks to new metallic paints.