Wall art plays an important role in interior design as it helps create 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 room look 'lived in' and they also inject your personality into room; · color pictures and prints help connect with 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 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 middle of wall in which you want to lengthen. These lines then naturally create illusion of increased length in 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 print, can accomplish 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 length of room naturally.

Two, three or more of these horizontal landscape pictures will give maximum impact you are looking for to help lengthen a small room. Also bear in mind not to overdo 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 narrow side, there is a simple strategy to make room appear broader. All you need is a tin of paint, a wall mirror and a large colorful wall picture.

Decorating with Art Pictures

You will be surprised at important role that art pictures play in home decor accessories. Not only do pictures add your own personality into room, they absorb noise and can actually help change illusion of a rooms' shape if placed in right places. For example:

· horizontal landscape pictures help widen a room;

· Portrait floral pictures help give illusion of height; and

· one large picture reflected through a mirror gives sensation of additional broader space.

Creating Art Arrangements:-

For a maximum effect and to make interesting wall arrangements that can become a dynamic focal point of room, try to hang smaller pictures in a cluster.

If you hang an even number of smaller prints tightly together in a cluster, this will help balance out a large space and give a window effect in a small space. Remember to hang prints together tightly to create one unit and one focal point.

For larger pictures, place them in proportion to furniture. For example, hang a large picture approximately six to nine inches above a sofa or at eye level. By hanging a larger print too high above any piece of furniture can leave both pieces feeling disconnected.

Tips Before Hanging Art:-

Before hanging any art on a wall, try different combinations of arrangements. Use painter's tape and brown paper bags and keep rearranging bits of paper on wall until you have come up with a great picture arrangement.

Always hang prints at eye level and use your hand in between pictures as a guide to space large and medium sized pictures.

Create Illusions with Mirrors

Mirrors are great to help create illusion of space. By cleverly placing mirrors on an adjacent wall to a picture or something that is interesting in your room, will reflect image and add a sense of space.

For darker rooms, hang a decorative mirror near a window. The light will then bounce off mirror into room portraying more natural much-needed light back into area.