Lesson 5 of 8 · 12 min
Materials and finishes
Choose floor finishes, paint whole rooms or single wall faces, add panelling and skirting, set ceiling colours and recolour furniture.
In this lesson you will
- Set a room's floor finish and paint every wall in it at once
- Paint or panel one side of a single wall
- Change ceiling colour, skirting boards and furniture colours
Finishes do most of the work in making a plan look like a home. In Arcvelle Studio, floors, paint, panelling and ceilings are set per room, and single walls can be finished side by side.
Floors and paint for a whole room
- With the Select tool, click inside a room. The properties panel shows the room's name, type and area.
- Under Flooring, pick a finish. There are 17, from oak planks and parquet to porcelain tile, marble, terrazzo, polished concrete, carpet, decking and lawn.
- Under Wall paint, pick a colour. This paints every wall face inside the room in one step.
- Under Wall panelling, choose Wainscot panelling, Timber slats or Tiles, then a colour and a Height. Panelling stops at doors and below window sills.
One wall at a time
An accent wall, or a different colour on each side of a partition, is set on the wall itself.
- Click a wall. The properties panel shows Paint and Panelling, each with Side A and Side B.
- Pick a colour for the side you want. The other side keeps its own colour.
- Add panelling to one side only, such as tiles behind a basin to 1.2 m.
With nothing selected, Default wall colour under Light & atmosphere sets the colour for walls you have not painted.
Ceilings and skirting
- Select a room and scroll to Ceiling and skirting.
- Pick a Ceiling colour. Ceilings show in walk mode, tours and 360° panoramas, so this matters more than it looks from above.
- Turn Skirting boards off for rooms such as a tiled bathroom, where you would not usually fit them.
Recolour furniture
- Select a piece of furniture. Under Finish, choose a Main colour and, for pieces that have one, a Second colour, such as the frame of a sofa.
- Use Custom next to the swatches to pick any colour.
Build a scheme first
If you are unsure where to start, make a board in the Moodboard maker. Start from a style or add up to three photos, and it pulls out a palette and matches each colour to the nearest named paint. Keep it open beside the Studio as a reference while you pick swatches.
A useful rule is to choose the floor first, as it covers the largest area and is the hardest to change in a real home, then paint, then textiles and accents.
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