Shop for Wall Art by Room

The kind of home you have and mood, ambience and style of decor you create, should be perfectly designed to suit your lifestyle. Deciding on a style for your room should be determined by lifestyle you choose and not by what's latest interior design trend.

Whichever room you are wanting to decorate, whether it be your bedroom, living area, kitchen or office space, you need to decide what you want to get out of that space. For example,

· do you want to hold dinner parties or entertain?

· do you want a quiet retreat to get away from hustle and bustle? · Is this an area for kids to play in?

· Is this a room for your hobby?

Once you have decided what you want to use room for, you can now choose a color theme to suit function of room. For example, mellow greens and neutrals for your 'quiet retreat room', lively yellow for kids room, or pale tranquil blue for your office space. So far we have established function and color of room in question, this then gives us basis on choosing right art prints for area.

For example:

· bright colorful cartoon pictures for kids room

· mellow pastel floral pictures for your quiet retreat area, or

· tranquil landscape and scenic pictures for your office space

Choose your Style

Like paint color, artwork can immediately establish or change a room's mood. Not only can it pull room together, but you can use it to create a style uniquely your own.

· traditional & classic

· modern

· contemporary

· fun & entertaining

· casual

· romantic

The style of room is totally dependent on your own personal taste and this is time when you can inject your own personality into room through artwork and textured accessories.

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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.