How to Change a Room's Dimension using Wall Pictures
by Claire Bowes
Description: How to use pictures to change a room's dimensions.
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The Basic Role of Pictures
Wall art plays an important role in interior design as it helps create
the ambience of a room. By cleverly placing wall pictures in certain
ways, you can change and create a new look and feel in a room.
The role wall pictures play in interior design are:
- pictures, mirrors or other ornamental accessories on walls help make
the room look 'lived in' and they also inject your personality into the
room
- color pictures and prints help connect with the rooms accent
- pictures help absorb noise in a room, otherwise a room with totally
bare walls will sound empty and will have an echo
- pictures and prints can help enhance or change a room's 'look and
feel
How to Lengthen a Room
If you have a small room in your house, you can easily achieve the
illusion of length. This can be done in two ways. If you like bold
statements then simply paint a couple of horizontal lines in a bold color
across the middle of the wall in which you want to lengthen. These lines
then naturally create the illusion of increased length in the room. An
alternative way to do this, and a more subtle way, is to use pictures.
By strategically placing art pictures or photographs with any kind of
strong horizontal line in the print, can accomplish the illusion of
length. For example, if you chose two or three long rectangular pictures
with horizontal panoramic prints such as ocean & beach pictures, fields,
or scenic mountain pictures, then this will help extend the length of
the room naturally.
Two, three or more of these horizontal landscape pictures will give the
maximum impact you are looking for to help lengthen a small room. Also
bear in mind not to overdo the room with furniture. Too much clutter
makes a room appear smaller.
How to Broaden a Narrow Room
If you have a room which is a bit on the narrow side, there is a simple
strategy to make the room appear broader. All you need is a tin of
paint, a wall mirror and a large colorful wall picture.
Get your tin of paint, which should preferably be a darker contrasting
color to your other walls, and paint one of the walls with this darker
paint. Find a colorful and lively large painting and hang it on the
wall you have just painted - colorful flower pictures are ideal for this.
On the wall adjacent to your picture, hang a decorative large mirror.
What has happened here is that the mirror reflects on the large
picture, and the additional darker color on the wall has immediately given the
room some much-needed depth. This combination will then make the room
appear wider.
By adding these simple additions to your narrow room, you have
instantly created a balance in the room's dimensions giving the sensation of
additional space.
How to Heighten a Low Ceiling
Rooms with low ceilings give an oppressive feeling, whereas rooms with
a high ceiling give a light and airy feel with a large amount of space.
To overcome the problem of a low ceiling, there are a couple of
interior design strategies to use.
First of all put down a darker floor covering, whether it be a wooden
floor, carpet or lino. Paint the walls with a lighter color than the
floor, or use light colored wallpaper. If you can, use white paint for
the ceiling as this always gives the room maximum light and instantly
draws the eyes upwards.
Hang up wall pictures with strong vertical lines as this then gives the
impression of height. Use portrait prints such as vertical landscapes,
i.e. lighthouses, trees, cityscapes, or floral prints such as flowers
in a vertical vase or tall long stem roses. Therefore, by combining the
dark floor, light walls and ceiling and portraits prints, all adds to
the sense of height in a room.
Summary
Art pictures and prints play an important role in home decorating for
several reasons. They do not only reflect and put your own personality
into the room, but they can also help as a solution to change the look
and feel of a room by giving the illusion of height, width and length.
This can easily be achieved by combining wall pictures, contrasting
colors and decorative mirrors.
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