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Often at the end of the repair, we find that we have one or more empty walls that just need some kind of decor. The question immediately arises – how to decorate the wall. There are many different ways. Moreover, the beauty of wall decorations is that most of them can be easily removed and replaced, while changing the mood, and sometimes even the style of the room. First, let’s look at how to decorate a wall correctly, in terms of design.
Design approach
Almost all interior design styles that are popular today – modern, hi-tech, minimalism, etc. – suggest light-colored walls. The design turns out to be light and unobtrusive, but after a while you want something brighter, some accents. And the best way to add those accents is to decorate the walls. Smooth and smooth, they serve as the perfect backdrop.
Panels and collages
The easiest way is to make a wall panel from the same small fragments, paint them in colors close to the main one or play with one of the additional colors already present in the interior.
Collages are suitable for decorating the wall. They can be made from photographs – from a personal album, celebrities, natural or urban landscapes, animals, birds … whatever. Reproductions of paintings are also suitable, even just multi-colored fragments pasted over, for example, with companion wallpaper.
If the style of the room is closer to pop art or any other avant-garde direction, then it’s better to choose the right theme, and the color scheme of the collage is harder. This is closer to art than just design. As an example, you can play with images or reproductions of avant-garde artists in different colors.
Moreover, it is far from necessary to make holes in the walls under each frame. The solution can be borrowed from galleries: hang a cornice under the ceiling – ordinary or string, and attach elements of wall decor to it on a thick fishing line. Changing the exposure in this case is a matter of several tens of minutes.
Triptychs
Since ancient times, the walls have been decorated with triptychs, but earlier they used painting. You can paint the walls today, but this requires a lot of talent. For those who did not work out with painting, there is another option – to divide the image (photo) you like into several fragments and place it on the wall in this form.
The method is simple, but gives an interesting effect. And to make everything look more voluminous, make a base for each fragment. You can use thin wooden slats, you can beat them out of fiberboard, even with thick even cardboard, cut out pieces of insulation – thin foam.
The style of the image, the predominant color, you choose based on the general style of the room and the shades available in the interior. It is not necessary that the image consists only of such tones, but the primary colors must be present. This is the only way to connect the wall decoration with the rest of the design into a single whole. If you can’t find a suitable image, you can use a black and white photo. It also looks very impressive. Only with photographs, the frames should be almost flat – pieces of hard, thick cardboard and that’s it.
Decorate the walls with photos
In general, the idea of decorating the wall with photographs gives the home a personality. Even strict cold minimalism becomes more comfortable. If you are tired of the coldness of the design of your home – add a few photos with or without frames – and immediately feel the atmosphere as more “warm”.
Moreover, you can hang photos on the walls according to the same principle – on fishing lines attached to a baguette under the ceiling.
Decorating with wood and stone
If you consider wall decoration as something more global, stylish and permanent, you can turn to materials such as wood and stone. This will already be a stationary decor, which you are unlikely to be able to quickly change. But the degree of decorativeness is an order of magnitude higher.
You can brighten up the gloom and coldness of the stone by highlighting warm tones. The fragments do not have to be even. The “torn” edge is even more interesting from the point of view of decoration, but very inconvenient from the point of view of the housewives – it’s hard to clean.
Living decorations from plants
Very unusual living decorations on the walls. These are the so-called “green walls”. Live plants are planted in some volume. They are selected in different colors, species, with different leaf shapes. You can make such a composition in the form of a picture in a frame, with mandatory backlighting. Just remember to water it regularly…
It is a little easier to create compositions from climbing plants. They are planted in a long container, a fishing line is tied, and whips are distributed along it. Properly selected plants look great. The only negative is that the “decor” grows for a long time.
We make decoration for the walls with our own hands
There are many ideas for decorating the walls in a room that are easy to implement on your own. The most popular, perhaps, are stickers or stickers. There are many ready-made ones that just need to be glued, but it is not always possible to find exactly what you want. But you can always do what you dreamed of with your own hands.
Paper wall decor: butterflies, flowers, hearts
It is very easy to make voluminous wall decor from colored paper. Only it must be double-sided – the sheets must be painted on both sides. You will also need double-sided tape, and also a pencil, scissors, maybe cardboard.
In romantic interiors – children’s rooms for girls – you can decorate the walls with butterflies or flowers. The easiest way is to cut out patterns from cardboard of different sizes. It is convenient to circle them with a finely sharpened pencil, then cut them out along the drawn lines.
If we are talking about butterflies, then they need to bend the “wings”, leaving a straight body. Glue a small piece of double-sided tape to the body (for now, remove the protective coating on only one side). With this Velcro, you can glue the decoration to any surface.
From such multi-colored butterflies you can make pictures. The main thing is the idea and the desire to realize it.
By the same principle, flowers are made from the same double-sided colored paper. Moreover, simple daisies look like decoration more graphic than more complex ones (poppies, roses, etc.). Having cut them out, the petals are slightly bent, the Velcro is glued to the middle. It turns out a voluminous decoration.
Another romantic option is hearts. They are also cut out of paper, only the cutout is made deeper. Then, by connecting and gluing the cut part, they add volume to the decor. They are attached in the same way – on pieces of double-sided tape.
Wall decorations made of threads and carnations
Do not know how to decorate the wall in an original way? You can make very interesting things from threads. They take some kind of base – a wooden board, for example, a silhouette is stuffed on it with carnations.
Threads are pulled between the carnations, creating a three-dimensional pattern. You can use any thread, for example, floss.
In this technique, you can make almost any image.
Make a panel
Making a wonderful panel for a bedroom or room is easy. It is necessary to take a dense insulation – polystyrene foam or something similar 2-3 cm thick.
Cut the foam into strips of equal or different sizes, wrap with a suitable fabric or wallpaper. The easiest way to fix them is with staples from a construction stapler.
To make the panels easy to attach, staples are attached to them (for example, with glue). On one of the fragments – smoothly colored – you can apply a drawing. It can be made using a stencil, you can find some kind of pattern, cut it out and stick it.
Everything is easy and simple, in a few tens of minutes the panel is ready. Several options in the photo below.
Kitchen wall decoration
The first possibility is to make a panel, but with a “kitchen” pattern. For example, a photo of coffee beans, a cup of coffee, or some other similar image. You can make a decorative panel using even ordinary things – for example, cutlery and dishes.
More traditional is the use of plates brought from different countries. They are both a decoration and a reminder of a good time.
Another way to decorate an empty kitchen wall is to use stickers. They can be ready-made – you can find them on sale, or you can cut them out of any images and stick them on double-sided tape.
Video tutorials on creating wall decor with your own hands
How to make a panel of shells
Picture of coffee beans
Decorative panel
Examples of wall decorations in video format.