If you want to give your villa or apartment an effective makeover without having to invest in a paint job and new furniture, you can try to use your creative side to give your home a complete new look. Observe your walls. Do you like the way you’ve place paintings, pictures and prints? Most of the times, we tend to hang artwork on our walls without a specific criteria, without thinking about the value that those decor complements add to our existing furniture and interior design. In this article, we’ll give you some practical tips to inspire your creativity: all you need are good quality posters and an eye for detail.
The Living Room
Let’s start with the living room. This is the room where you meet your family and friends, spend quiet evenings with your loved ones, relax after a long day at work. Here, you can create “clutters” of posters of different sized, hanged in mosaic style. The posters can be of various sizes, just make sure that the distance between the posters is the same at the top and at the bottom of each frame. This will create a harmonic whole, even if you use a mix of different subjects and art styles. If you decide to go for a single, big-sized poster, then choose a colour print of a landscape and frame it in a colour in contrast with the walls. You will create the effect of a “window” that will add space and depth to the room.
The Kitchen
Here, you can really have some fun and be a little bit daring. Choose coloured prints of fruit, vegetables and food items, paired with some retrò looking pictures, such as reproductions of vintage advertising flyers. In the kitchen, it’s best to frame the pictures with glass, to protect them from vapour and grease.
Your Bedroom
The bedroom walls do not have to be too cluttered. Hang a single, centered, big sized print above the headboard. Choose a subject that is related to something that you love. For example, a city view or romantic forest trees. An abstract design is the best choice for a more contemporary, Scandinavian style decor.
The Kids Room
When it comes to kids, we always have to think forward. Their taste changes very rapidly. We love to decorate babies and toddlers’ rooms with images of their favourite cartoons, and, at that age, they really love to be surrounded by those reassuring and happy images. But, as they grow, kids prefer to have a room that looks more “cool”. If you want to give a nice touch to their room, choose the prints of animals. There are stunning images made by professional photographers that are genuine and unique portraits of wildlife, full of character and really charming. You should involve the children in the decision process, giving them a number of options to choose from. Instead of regular frames, you can opt for neat poster hangers made with practical magnetic fasteners or screw fastened wooden designs.