If you want to prevent the rooms of your home from looking cold and without personality, make sure that you do not have austere spaces in them. When you want to add some life to a room and give it character, you should add some wall décor to alleviate the monotony of blank walls. Here are some great ideas to bring this kind of life to your walls.
One of the best and easiest is to add texture to the wall. There are so many wallpapers that are textured, and it is a simple task to wallpaper your wall(s) with a wallpaper that has a raised pattern, or is made to look like bamboo or linen. Of course, this can be taken to the extreme, and there have been avant-garde decorators who have attached straw or paper bags to a wall for texture, but this is not a solution within everyone’s reach.
Wallpaper is still the time-tested way to add texture and color to your walls, and if you start looking at some of the wallpaper books at a home decor store, you’ll be amazed at the variety of looks you can achieve, and let the straw in the barn for the animals!
You can also consider wall hangings to remedy a soft wall. A beautiful antique quilt adds a lovely touch of texture and color, and also highlights a unique family heirloom. This is one of the best ways to add texture as it is done in a very custom way.
Another very personalized way to add texture is to display a collection on a wall. For example, a gentleman who collects old tools might consider hanging them on a family room wall in an interesting pattern. Now they’re serving a function, and you’ve also managed to remove some of the clutter from your garage.
How about using old doll clothes or dresses to liven up the walls of a girl’s room? Here you surely have a lot of color, and the textures of the old dresses are usually materials such as tulle or organza, which would be very striking. Dress colors like this are perfect for a girl’s room.
Just by using your imagination and the materials around you, you will get lots of ideas to add texture to a boring wall.