Wall hangings are a great way to add colours and meanings to your living room. We live in an age of expressionism and the bare boring living room wall is no longer fanciful. Art makes our home humane. With your living room décor, you can easily express emotions that words can’t freely capture; and, in so doing, you can majestically transform your home. Like a doctor prescribing medication, interior designers have increasingly prescribed wall art as the perfect enhancement décor that brings life to living spaces.
However, for you to achieve your stunning design fantasy, you must choose the right wall art for your living room. The basic goal you are trying to achieve includes beautifying you room by laying out art piece(s) that can easily become an exquisite topic of discuss; displaying your passion, lifestyle and personality for the world to know; giving texture and depth to your wall space(s) in a unique and fashionable way; as well as, perfecting your room’s finishes.
The right wall art will set your living room tone, reinforce feelings you wish to evoke and communicate your uniqueness and style. Below are the 4 factors that should influence your living room wall art decor
- Your Passion and Love
In simple terms, art should evoke positive and personal emotion. The perfect wall art for your living room should bring up happy, joyful and calm feeling each time you stare at it. Your living room view should be an extension of your taste and fantasy. Hold all other criteria secondary.
- The Wall Art Style
Styles are focal to interior decoration. The ideal wall art choice must marry your home’s established point of view and style. A modern styled home should be adorned with art that evoke feelings of modern life; and, so too, the traditional or contemporary. Let your adopted wall art refine and re-emphasize your home’s style.
- The Size of the Wall Art
The size of your living room’s empty wall spaces, in proportion to the size of your wall art piece(s) must be put in consideration. Ensure the adopted size creates a good balance with the available space. Before going for a piece, whether custom-made or ready-made, ensure you have decided on the perfect size. 1 metre and larger length-sized piece (oversized art) will ultimately act as your room’s focal point. It is better place above a proportionately big furniture. Large wall art (80 to 100 centimetres) is just perfect when used as your centrepiece resting on a surface. Medium-sized piece (60 to 80 centimetres) is better suitable as a standalone or paired up wall art piece(s). Small and mini-size pieces (25 to 60 centimetres) are best grouped together as a collection of gallery wall pieces.
- The Wall Art Colour
It is equally important that your chosen wall art blends in colour with your home’s wall finishing. While this is not an advocacy for compulsory white on white décor, colour blending is still very essential. You should select colours that forge a kind of consistency with one or more already present room colours. You may however vary it in terms of tones and shades.