What is the best and cheapest way to get a decorative paint scheme on walls? No idea how to do it. HELP!?

I am painting the whole house, we are starting with the bathroom.What is the best and cheapest way to get a decorative paint scheme on walls? No idea how to do it. HELP!?
There are some great faux painting techniques that you could try, some as easy as ragging with paint and glaze. Sometimes local paint and wallpaper stores will offer mini-classes in the basic techniques, and Barnes and Noble, Lowe's and other big-name hardware stores carry how-to books on the subject. I like the ones by Sunset and Better Homes and Gardens. It's best to practice on a small board of some sort 'till you get the hang of it. Stenciling is kinda out of ';vogue'; right now but I still like it. It can be used for a pretty and very inexpensive border, like in a bathroom.


Taping off alternating stripes on one wall in a room is fairly easy. You do the math and then, with the aid of painter's tape, you roll bands of clear, non-yellowing, acrylic varnish over your base coat. Remove the tape and you've got a tone-on-tone striped wall. I've found that 6';-wide stripes look best.What is the best and cheapest way to get a decorative paint scheme on walls? No idea how to do it. HELP!?
Don't trust Lowes, Home depot, ect for anything. Go to Sherwin Williams, Kelly Moore, or Anchor. Its a simple process for most faux painting, unless you want to do a realistic marble or other technique thats gonna need knowlege of glazes, oil over latex, latex over oil ect.





Best thing to do is get a 4'x4' sheet of drywall and the paints/supplies and just practice and experiment. After you learn one technique, others wont be so intimidating.
decorative painting can be any of a couple hundred techniques,and I must say all the ones that look cool are pretty difficult ,you could do the ragging,sponging or color washing as mentioned above but even they are somewhat out of vogue, the most popular things are now the trowled on coatings,as in the plasters and marbles, metallics with a glaze over the top are also popular,but they are not easy to learn and take some practice,for a good look that is easy to learn ,try Lusterstone ,you will probably love the look, it is the hottest product I apply these days. Painting/faux painting contractor.