Interior Design is one of the more egalitarian activities you can engage in. After all, whether we’re professionals with years of training or DIYers with ambition, we all have the same basic ingredients to work with – floor plans, colour palettes, furniture, items, and of course photo canvas pieces and other wall art. It’s not about your credentials, it’s about what you do with these materials that can make or break your room design.
Sometimes, though, the ideas are slow in coming. You might have the urge to do something dramatic using abstract art or some other form of photo canvas, but the urge has to be combined with inspiration to do something truly memorable. The trick isn’t to think outside the box, but to avoid getting in the box in the first place. That means switching things up creatively. Here are a few suggestions to make your choices of canvas art more unexpected and creative.
Photo Canvas Inspiration: Don’t Forget the Bric-a-Brac
One mistake people make when trapped in ‘the box’ is to view every design element in the room as a separate category. Sure, most people know enough to think about colour and texture when choosing the different elements of a room, but they still think in terms of ‘wall art’, ‘furniture’, and ‘bric-a-brac’ a.k.a. the tiny decorative items that will line shelves and sit in strategic places around the room.
The key inspiration here is to stop thinking in terms of categories and start thinking more holistically. If you know what you’re going to decorate your shelves or other flat surfaces with in the room, use that for your photo canvas inspiration. This can be literal – if you’re going to have a jade frog figurine on a shelf, why not have an awesome art print of a green frog on the wall behind it? – or more abstract, just picking up colours or shapes in general.
Fusing your three-dimensional decorations with your wall art instantly creates cohesion in your room and makes everything feel connected, without making the room feel ‘staged’ or too ‘matchy-matchy’.
Forget the Literal
Another way people get trapped in a box when it comes to using photo canvas wall decorations is in the perceived need for art to be literally an image of something – a landscape, an object. The fact is, going abstract and simply grooving on the colour and texture of your room design in the wall art is a great way to tie the room together without having to come up with an image that works.
You can either go find amazing abstract art and have it made into a photo canvas for your walls, or create your own by using the colour palette you’ve chosen and some free time. Getting away from the literal allows your guests’ imaginations to soar, making the whole room experience even more powerful.
Getting outside the box is the first step towards truly great design work in your room. When you’ve made some fun choices for wall art, click here and we’ll turn those choices into bespoke photo canvas art that will blow people away.
