If you love nature, art, books or your pets, we have a few ways to inspire a refreshed look and style for your walls. Try these fun yet functional suggestions – ranging from professional installations to inexpensive weekend home handy projects – to make your home fabulous.
Choosing the right colour
Painting a room is a popular project for interior design beginners and veteran renovators alike. After all, it’s pretty painless, relatively inexpensive. And should something go horribly wrong, it’s quite easy to fix. But before you grab your roller and get started, it’s important to have an action plan.
Read on to learn how to paint a room and see the steps you’ll need to follow to make sure your project is a success.
Browsing through fan decks and paint chips can be overwhelming. Start by figuring out the general colour characteristics: Do you want a warm or cool shade? A neutral or a saturated shade?
If you have existing furniture or art, you’ll also want to consider how the shade will compliment them. Once you have a sense of what you’re looking for, pick a few shades and get samples. Test the shades to see how they look in the room at different times of the day.
Fabulous feature walls
People underestimate how easy one simple design decision can change the entire look of a space.
They tend to be nervous about making decisions outside of their creative comfort zone, yet the age-old idea of keeping a palette neutral and adding colour with soft finishes is still very much relevant in today’s design world.
Anyone can hang wallpaper, but it takes a little know-how to hang it straight and with tight, nearly invisible seams.
Tiling your kitchen wall
Backsplash tiles in your kitchen add a flair and textural interest to the space.
The backsplash, whether you spring for a professional tile installation or use DIY self-adhesive vinyl tiles, also protects the wall from food stains and splashes and moisture damage behind sinks.
Gallery wall
Designate a wall of your home as a gallery space. Treat it like an actual art gallery, hanging framed original art prints you like, family photos, your children’s art – whatever speaks to your soul.
If you’re on a budget, instead of taking your pieces to a frame shop, scour thrift stores for suitable frames that you can repaint if needed and repurpose. Don’t be afraid to mix up framing styles for a colourful, eclectic, chic effect.
If your walls are shorter, extend the framed gallery all the way up to the ceiling. This gives the illusion of a higher ceiling.
Hanging plates or collections
Do you have a special, cherished pattern of plates? Perhaps your mother’s or grandmother’s china pattern? Instead of leaving them stacked deep in a cabinet, turn them into a decorative wall element.
Hanging plates is a charming, three-dimensional accent that still enjoys popularity. Buy wire plate hangers and elevate the importance of an antique serving platter or dish.
When you’re mounting the wire plate hangers, take extra caution that they’ve properly adhered to the wall. You don’t want them falling. You may want to install some shelving to lean the plates on or display other collectables mix and match, and incorporate art or photographs within the plates.
Wall planters
Bring the outdoors inside. Plants not only bring a beautiful, organic feeling to your decor, but they help clean the air by absorbing impurities and releasing oxygen.
Instead of setting your plants on the floor, windowsill, or on a table, why not hang them on the wall?
Wall-mounted planters add a beautiful burst of colour and life to any wall.
When planning the location of your plant wall, make sure it’s in a room of the home that receives adequate sunlight or install grow lights for your growing, ‘green wall’ accent.
Mirrors
Enlarge the look of your space and bring a brighter ambience when you hang mirrors on your walls.
An oversized mirror, or several of them in a pattern or as part of a wall gallery, can open up the space by reflecting back the interior. If placed perpendicular to windows, mirrors also reflect sunlight back into the space so it seems lighter and brighter.
Mirrors don’t have to be square, ho-hum additions to your space. Look for uniquely shaped mirrors, like geometric, circular, and windowpane shapes, with intriguing frames, adding a distinctive wall art ambience.
Mirrors have burst out of the ‘bathrooms and bedrooms-only’ mould. A welcome addition to any room, mirrors look great behind a buffet table or sofa, in the entryway, or anywhere you want a reflection and light.
Hanging plates is a charming, three-dimensional accent that still enjoys popularity. Buy wire plate hangers and elevate the importance of an antique serving platter or dish. Picture: www.property24.com
Designate a wall of your home as a gallery space. Treat it like an actual art gallery, hanging framed original art prints you like, family photos, your children’s art.
Picture: www.property24.com
People underestimate how easy one simple design decision can change the entire look of a space.
Picture: www.property24.com
Painting a room is a popular project for beginning DIYers and veteran renovators alike. After all, it’s pretty painless, relatively inexpensive. Picture:www.property24.com
