Wall Art As Decor
Paintings to enhance your walls
Displaying wall art is a great way to have your home reflect your personality and taste. Mounting an old masterpiece or cutting-edge sculpture in your living room or dining room lets you show off your artistic prowess to friends and visitors.
Why decorate our walls
It Creates A Focal Point
One of the basic principles of interior design is that every room needs a focal point, or a single design element that will instantly draw the eye into the space and give the viewer a sense of what to expect. It goes without saying that a great piece of wall art could easily fulfill this position. A creative gallery wall could easily spice up a more traditional dining area or a few hanging tapestries could as a cozy feel to a seating area.
When choosing a piece of wall art to be a focal point for your space, the most important consideration is size. An artwork that is too small will get dwarfed by the surrounding furniture and a piece that is too big will look as though it is spilling over.
It Brings A Sense Of Texture
Remember that not all wall art is created equal. While some pieces may be two-dimensional paintings or something similar, you should try to find art in a variety of different mediums to help bring a varying sense of texture into the space.
If your style is more avant garde, you could also consider doing a small mixed media installation that includes screens and digital art.
These extra bits of texture help add much needed visual weight to your interiors, which which help determine the tone of the room or how it feels.
It Makes The Room Appear Finished
Wall art is that finishing element that can help pull a space together and make it feel complete. It is that little extra touch that can take your space from simply looking functional to appearing as if it should grace the pages of an interior design magazine.
After that, it’s all about choosing decor that you love and will be happy seeing hang on your wall for many years to come.
Here are some simple tips for buying art paintings which might help you to create harmonious and beautiful environment:
Colours
One of the common interior design tricks is repetition of colour. If you have a painting with lots of green, introducing the same colour somewhere else in the room will create a feeling of continuity and flow. This can be done through accessories – decorative cushions, rugs, vases and vessels.
Motion or stillness
All paintings can be conventionally divided into two categories: depicting still life and depicting movement. If you want to create a serene and relaxing environment, choose the first one: landscapes, nature morte, portraits. Otherwise, for bringing energy and liveliness to the space find paintings with motion. This doesn’t necessarily have to be pictures of running horses, it can also be abstract paintings with curvilinear forms or lines in different directions which are subconsciously associated with movement.
Style and theme
Another important thing to pay attention to while choosing art is the style you have or want to create in the room. Thus, for traditional homes, designers usually choose portraits, landscapes, black and white photography. Abstract art and surrealism look great in contemporary spaces. In eclectic interiors you can actually mix different styles together, however, you need to have enough experience and skills to beautifully match them.
Wall art doesn’t have to be the last piece of the puzzle when you’re decorating a new space. In fact, it shouldn’t be. In our minds, wall art is most important when it comes to interior design. This is because when it’s used properly, your wall hangings can provide an excellent framework around which you should be able to plan the rest of the room.
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Wallpaper As Decor
Wall Art and Decor
The wallcovering you choose can make a room appear bigger, warmer, and brighter (or vice versa), and even hide imperfect elements.In fact, contemporary wallpaper is the smart, modern way to add space, interest – and value – to your home.
Wallpaper is a great way of bringing multiple colours and tones into a room rather than committing to one single paint . Clever wallpaper choices can enlarge and enlighten a stale space, create an eye-catching focal point and possibly make you rethink a room renovation!
Follow these expert tips below to makeover your own home with wallpaper.
1. Take a Cue from Colour
Colour can set the mood in a room. To make a space appear larger and the ceiling higher, pick patterns with cool-colour backgrounds, such as green, blue, or violet. Soft cool colours suggest tranquillity, while intense cool colours ors are fresh and dramatic. Warm colors — reds, yellows, and oranges — live up to their name and actually make people feel warmer.
Dark colors absorb light, making walls appear closer and the room smaller.
2. Texture
Textured surfaces also tend to make a wall look darker.
Hide Flaws with Texture Patterns with real or perceived texture can hide or camouflage wall imperfections or architectural eyesores.
For a fun, bright style, pick small motifs that are open and regularly spaced, such as polka dots. Don’t forget the decorative impact of borders.
3. Stripes and Patterns
Accent the Positive Stripes and other vertical patterns, which emphasize height, suggest dignity, vitality, and formality. Vertical patterns, including florals where the motif’s shape suggests a V or a U, will make a ceiling appear higher. Horizontal patterns accent width, suggest quietness and repose, and make narrow rooms appear wider.
Mix and Match Wisely A room without pattern can bore, while a room with too many patterns can cause restlessness. When mixing stripes, florals, or plaids in a room or between adjacent areas, pick patterns that repeat the same color or values of that color. Wallcovering books usually group designs by color to make coordinating easy.
Here are four wallpaper trends to get carried away with:
1. Textures
Adding warmth and intimacy to a cooler, more open and and even drafty space of the home is easily achievable through textural wallpaper. You can go for natural threads or patterned options.
2. Floral
Flowers can be perceived as passé or incredibly popular,when choosing a wallpaper for your home the most important thing is that you love it.
3. Geometric
Triangles, squares and multi-colouredapproaches offer a hard-to-miss statement but if you find them too masculine, go for white on cream or pastel hues for a modernist touch.
4. Wall as art
This is perfect for those who have few art pieces to hang but want to make impact on a room. Artwork will always play a very important role in interior spaces but wallpaper blends into the essence of a room in a different way.
