The use of cheap canvas prints in interior design has been explored pretty thoroughly over the years, and there’s no denying that print photos on canvas can have a powerful role in the overall look and feel of any room or home. But most of the suggestions for using canvas prints are looking for bold, overpowering moments in your rooms. The usual focus is on using canvas prints as focal points, dramatic moments that draw the eye.
There is another way for those who are a bit more skilled in their design endeavours. If you have the time and subtlety of mind, stunning canvas prints can act not as dramatic moments in your room, but rather as the muted threads that tie everything together. Here’s a few ideas to illustrate the idea.
Design Subtlety with Canvas Prints: Bring the Pattern
Design has several components – colour, texture, and the lines – the patterns. An all-white room or any room done in a single block colour can be powerful for a moment, but without texture and pattern it’s going to become dull before long.
Pattern can be introduced in many ways – furniture is a common technique; the placement of a cool couch or chair with a complementary pattern can bring some life to the colour scheme and make everything pop as a result. So here’s an idea: Carry that pattern up onto the wall using a high-quality photo of the pattern. The repetition on the walls will not only solidify the consecutiveness of the room, it adds an unexpected moment that will startle and cement the design concept in people’s minds.
Design Subtlety with Canvas Prints: The Colour Pop
The other basic tenet of design is that you should have a cohesive palette throughout most of the room, with ‘ops’ of colour that create excitement and kinetic energy in the design. These pops are typically achieved using props like throw pillows or installations.
It can also be achieved, and with more creative freedom, by using cheap canvas prints of photos that include the necessary colour as part of the image. Not only does the non-solid nature of a photograph render the pop effect more subtle (and thus more powerful) it allows a second dimension of creativity. You can not only select the colour you wish to pop out with, but you can select the images you want to transform into canvas prints – images that can either symbolise the colour you’ve chosen to be your pop (an easy example would be an image of a red wagon for the colour red, or apples) or that contrast with the colour (blue apples!) in a fun way.
It’s all about thinking ‘outside the box’ and using the tools at hand creatively. Canvas prints are a tool that can augment your interior design in a powerful way if you know how to use them.
When you’ve made you plans and you’ve selected the ideal photos for your colour pops or pattern pulls, send them to us and we’ll take care of making them into awesome canvas art prints that will enhance any design.
