Painting an “ombre” finish means blending colors from the top of the wall to the bottom – usually a dark to light or light to dark of the same color family. Together with another decorative painter, we did ombre finishes in orange for a company that was renovating a large office space about a year ago.
Fast forward to today, and that same company is renovating another large office space – and this time they decided to go with more ombre walls in more colors (including orange)!
We ombre’d literally thousands of square feet in orange, yellow and blue. The orange was on two large adjacent walls, plus small accent walls. The yellow and blue were two large “blocks” of 4 walls each – including a hallway and closets.
To accomplish this look, we started with 9 different shades of each color, painting the walls in jagged stripes of each shade. With a couple of coats of these jagged stripes done, I then went back and did a wet blend between each of the 2 colors, creating a fade at each step.
The site is still under construction, but below are some pictures of our completed ombre walls…
Enjoy!
The first step in ombre’ing the walls — before the blend!
The final ombre’d/blended wall!
Walking around the yellow “block”
The biggest wall of the blue block
The orange block
Plus small orange accent walls!