Paint light wells for basement windows decoratively

What you need:

• white paint for exterior painting
• Acrylics
• paint brush
• Clear coat

Beautify your light shafts

With just a little effort, you can improve the view from your basement window.

• Instead of looking at the dreary light shaft, which is not enough to fully illuminate the room anyway, you can decoratively spice up the view from your basement window.
• It is important that you do not use dark colors or paint an excessive amount of surface in dark tones. This would mean that the light would be absorbed by the paint and thus even less light would penetrate into the basement.

Decorative ideas for the basement window

• Before you start painting patterns, pictures or anything else, it is advisable to prime the entire light shaft in white. On the one hand, you will definitely get a better end result of your embellishment, as you create a fresh, light base with white paint. On the other hand, the light rays that fall through the light shaft are reflected by the white surfaces and contribute to a better lighting result.
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• For the primer, it is essential to use paint that is suitable for exterior painting, that adheres to the light shaft and that can withstand wind and weather. Get advice on this from the paint department of a hardware store.


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• You can beautify the view from your cellar window by painting a colorful meadow of flowers. Use acrylic paints and small brushes and paint an authentic meadow in different shades of green. Now place all kinds of flowers on this meadow and, if you like, birds or bees. Such a look into "nature" brightens every mind, especially when you are actually in your dreary basement.
• Be sure to do this job in good, dry weather so that the acrylic paint dries quickly. In addition, this must be made "durable" by painting over it with clear varnish.
• Your children will surely be happy to help you beautify! Everyone can immortalize themselves with colorful handprints and write their name and the current date underneath.
• Another friendly variant is painting a rainbow. With such a colorful sight, your basement window appears much nicer.
• Depending on your skill, you can paint an animal in the light shaft. B. be a chameleon or a parrot. It should look as real as possible and is guaranteed to be a great eye-catcher.
• If you prefer to decorate your light shafts a little more discreetly, this variant is recommended: Cut out different shapes or even a silhouette of your head from normal paper the end. Glue the cut-out shapes onto your light shafts and just paint the outline with colorful acrylic paint.