When decorating our home, whether new or the one we currently live in, the “energies” for decorating are usually focused on the furniture or accessories to be placed against it. Walls are often seen as a surface that can hardly be furnished or decorated, to be mostly used for a few paintings or to provide space for other furniture. In reality, walls can also be decorated and give, giving the room an even more personal and original touch-all you need is the right idea in mind! Below are six of them you can try to put into practice to give your home walls an extra boost.
Decorating the walls of your home, a way to personalize
Who said that a wall has to be “just” a vertical outlining surface, often left blank or used as a space to support other furniture? Everything in a home can be used to give even more personality and originality to the atmosphere around us. We have all at least once had a certain wall in our home that seemed far too empty. Coloring it, to avoid the impersonal coldness of classic white, is already a great first step to give it a little extra soul, for example, by choosing colors in harmony with the rest of the decor or, on the contrary, in stark contrast, to catch the eye.
But how can we really decorate it, making it a focal point of the home? Here in the next few paragraphs are some decorating and design ideas to consider.
Enhancing the wall with one large picture
Normally, walls are used to hang photographs or paintings. Which of course makes sense. But it’s also true that there are pictures and paintings, and to best decorate a wall, there are posters and prints that encapsulate so much history that they have nothing to envy from the best-known and most appreciated design objects. Just think of the entire “Nature Series” created by Enzo Mari and sold by Danese Milano.
The prints in this series-where animal or plant figures are stripped of their superfluousness to become a symbol of themselves-are often characterized by their large size. They dominate the wall on which they are placed, functioning well as unique pieces, protagonists of the vertical place in which they are located. It may be a good idea then, in the presence of an empty wall, to enrich that space with such a print, perhaps in harmony with the colors of the rest of the room.
Decorating walls with a mosaic effect
For this other proposal, we will get more help from Mari’s work. Some of her prints are smaller in size, so they would not be able to fill an entire wall. The problem is actually easily solved if you combine them, for example by joining four or six of them together to form a mosaic, as in this image.
What makes this decorative choice interesting is the uniformity that the images have with each other, because they come from the same hand and the same concept. In the case of Mari’s work this is particularly evident, but the mosaic effect can also be achieved by doing a mix of different styles and different visual references to each other. The important thing, however, is to do it in a reasoned way and without exaggerating the contrast too much.
Using a wall as a point of support for furniture or furnishings is a fairly standard choice, but again the level of customization or uniqueness all depends on the piece of furniture that is chosen. There are pieces of furniture that are not just furniture, but true pieces of design, such as Mogg’s Metrica bookshelves. Modular, featuring a glass part and a metal part, their structure is as simple and minimal as it is visually striking, especially if you give this object a way to dominate the entire wall.
Bookcases can be more than just a piece of furniture on which to store books and objects: they are a great way to give even more customization and uniqueness to a room, especially when their colors, the material they are made of, and their shapes tell stories and stand out. We talked about this in the article tell us what living room you have and we’ll tell you what bookshelf to give your books.
Giving a wow effect to the wall with a designer lamp
We have already talked in other articles about how the right lamps can help create a personal and interesting decor-this also applies to wall and
Our advice in this case is to pay special attention to the positioning of the lamp, its size and how the illumination coming from it will go into dialogue with that of other lamps already present or with natural lighting.
Playing with mirrors
Mirrors can also come to our aid when choosing to decorate an empty or overly bare wall. They are objects that are often used only for their specific function and usually find space in limited areas of the home-such as the bathroom, bedrooms or foyers-but can actually be allies for good decor. Look at these examples.
Mirrors give a great opportunity to play with perspective, size, depth, and space, even more so if they are used as the stars of our walls. Gervasoni’s Sweet 97 98 is a perfect example. So is Mogg’s Letteronza. The secret here is to indulge and dare with particular shapes, important dimensions, interesting materials and colors capable of capturing attention. A well-placed mirror can make all the difference in an otherwise empty wall, while also helping to give the room more breathing room.
Decorating the wall with vertical indoor gardens and plants
Plants and flowers are increasingly becoming an integral part of our homes, and we have already discussed this in the article on the power of plants in interior design projects. We are used to imagining pots and planters only resting on horizontal surfaces, for example on the floor or resting on furniture, but there is nothing to stop us from thinking of them vertically as decorations for our own walls as well! Just take a look at this proposal by Driade, the Erbale planter.
This is undoubtedly an original and unexpected choice, very suitable in apartments that are perhaps small and characterized by a contemporary style, where you would also like to integrate a natural and green part, but you do not have the right space to do so.
Home walls are often seen as mere backgrounds for furniture or paintings. In reality, with a little creativity and the right inspirations, they can take center stage, adding character and style to any room. Whether it’s an impressive work of art, a set of prints that tell a story, a designer bookcase, or a well-placed mirror, any wall can help transform the atmosphere of a home. Exploring these solutions will allow you to personalize spaces in unique ways, making each corner truly representative of your style.
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