Few interiors do without wall decoration. The bare empty walls mostly look cold and make the room uncomfortable. The choice of various wall decorations is so great that even a person with good taste and imagination can find it difficult to find the perfect option for their home. Indeed, the decor should reflect hobbies, suit the style, and in principle, have something in common with the life values of the owner. In our article, we have collected various variations of the pictures on the wall, which will help determine and create your own unique design of your home.
Techniques for performing paintings for interior decoration
To begin with, I would like to note that if you have at least minimal knowledge about interior decor, as well as the ability to choose the right colors, you can choose the pictures on the wall yourself. If such skills or desire are completely absent, perhaps the best solution would be to hire a professional in your field, i.e. a designer who with his own eyes will be able to evaluate the room and help to choose the most suitable home decor.
Options for performing paintings may be as follows:
- Acrylic. Vivid paintings made in this technique will be very appropriate in such stylistic directions as pop art and retro style.
- Watercolor. Such instances are always airy and light. They make the interior softer and fresher. Watercolor paintings perfectly complement the interiors in the style of Provence and shabby chic.
- Graphic arts. Most suitable for people who prefer the eclectic style.
- Posters Just doesn’t mean bad. Posters can perfectly complement the room in the styles of hi-tech and minimalism.
- photos. Wonderful pictures of professional photographers are no worse than the works of artists fit into any interior and serve as a good complement to empty walls.
Determine the placement of paintings
If you have decided on the style of the picture on the wall in the room, then it's time to think about where exactly it will hang. The options for placing pictures can be very different and depend mainly on the location of the furniture. For example, small or medium-sized paintings look most advantageous when they are above a small sofa, armchair or pedestal. The best option is if the image is slightly smaller than the width of the furniture over which it is located.
A few more standard places where the picture on the wall will look best are over the fireplace, over the sofa, over the bed and over the chest of drawers.
If the picture is large, then it is usually placed on the wall, free from any kind of furniture.
Do not forget about the rule that can visually make the space wider or higher. Depending on what effect you want to achieve, the picture on the wall is hung horizontally or vertically.
If there are several images, then the easiest way to place them is in a straight line with the same gap from each other. It is important to remember that primary attention is focused on the picture, which is in the middle than on the sides of it.
Pictures for the hallway
Perhaps the very first impression of the house and its owners can be made only by crossing the threshold of their home. The gaze immediately unfolds the routine of other people, their hobbies, preferences, taste and lifestyle in general. Today, the time of littered and cluttered corridors is slowly but surely going into oblivion. And people prefer light, cleanliness and space to replace them. It's not about the presence of a large entrance hall, but about its condition. And if the corridor is the first impression of the house, then the design of its walls should be taken seriously. Therefore, depending on the style of the interior in which the front door is made, the plot of the picture is better to choose from still lifes, city landscapes, ships. Pictures with inscriptions and quotes of suitable fonts in style are also excellent. Quotations may indicate the core values of a particular family. For example, it can be pictures with inscriptions on the theme of love, support, understanding and mutual assistance.
Pictures for a living room, a drawing room
The living room is always a favorite place for households and visitors. Most often this is a fairly spacious room, with a little furniture, but a large sofa. Based on this, the picture is most logical to place right above it. There may be many options. It all depends on the design of the room and color scheme. However, there are practically win-win options. These include paintings with unobtrusive motifs, nature or patterns. Also, the enlarged photo work of city streets, bridges, sunsets and sunrises will look great. The living room is the place where you can and should take risks. And also practically the only place in the house where the use of images is recommended, which in other rooms will not be too appropriate. These include deserts, motorcycle races, volcanoes, storms and other sharp and turbulent phenomena. The same goes for the color scheme. The picture in the living room may well be framed in bright and rich colors, perhaps even neon, if it echoes the general interior.
Children's room
To decorate this room, it is worth giving preference to children's pictures on the wall. They can be performed in any of the above techniques. The relevance of the image and color are more important here. It is better if it will be bright or delicate shades, without the use of gloomy tones.
Paintings with animals, cartoon characters and nature look good in the children's bedroom. It is wonderful when the works of the inhabitants of this room themselves are arranged on the walls as bright pictures in the frame. This will make the nursery truly unique and vibrant.
On the wall in the kitchen
The kitchen is also worthy of looking beautiful and stylish. Therefore, decorating the walls, do not forget about it. Most often, pictures are chosen on the wall for the kitchen with still lifes, abstraction, or portraits. Any motifs related to food or floristic are also suitable. If the room is small, it is worth taking a closer look at collages consisting of several medium-sized images, or nowadays fashionable trend - modular paintings, when one image is as if cut into three or more parts. Similar pictures for the walls in the kitchen perfectly complement your interior.
Bedroom
Basically, the most characteristic of the bedroom are restrained, not flashy tones. Because the abundance of bright walls or fragments of furniture excessively affects the psyche, not allowing to relax. Therefore, the decor for the walls should be appropriate. For the bedroom, you can recommend choosing paintings with the themes of flowers, sea surface or sky. For couples, a good choice would be the image of swans, as well as other romantic images that symbolize love and loyalty. Do not place pictures above the bed in which there are sharp corners, power or rudeness. Such motives carry a negative energy of destruction and are capable of causing subconscious harm to the owner of the canvas.
Study for work and study
In the most serious place in the house when designing, it is worth focusing on creating an atmosphere of calm and self-discipline. It is very appropriate to place pictures in the working room with a road or water going into the distance, because it is believed that such images attract good luck. And for example, the pictures on the wall in the room where the harvest is shown promise promise approaching success. The paintings with landscapes or benefits will fit perfectly into the study. As for the color scheme, it is definitely not worth decorating the walls with faded colors, grayness and blur, because in the office it is more a symbol of financial poverty and failure in business. For pep, you can recommend using black and white pictures on the wall in the interior that carry rigor and strength.
Also, photo works with an image symbolizing victory, labor results and triumph are perfect for the workplace.
As you can see, deciding on the choice of wall decoration is not so difficult. In any case, it is only important that in the resulting interior you and your household feel harmonious, comfortable and peaceful.