We all claim one room in the house above all others. For some of us these rooms are recreational in nature – the family room with the big television, or the theatre room or workout room. For others, ‘our’ room is a more creative space – the home office, or the kitchen. This is where we get excited because we can spend our time creating something.
We sometimes need a little ‘wall inspiration’ in these rooms, because your creative space is not just stocked with tools and specified for the purpose, it’s supposed to feed you with inspiration. Take a look at this fantastic office renovation in Chicago. Forget the desk and the floors and all the interior design stuff – notice the amount of interesting things packed onto the shelves and wall space. This is an office where someone goes to have ideas.
That should be the goal when decorating ‘your’ room for creative inspiration. Here are some ideas that incorporate canvas wall art to inspire you in ‘your’ room.
Using Canvas Wall Art to Inspire with Great People
A great, unusual way to use wall art in your home office is to find images of inspirational figures in your shared vocation in their offices.
For example, for the aspiring weekend novelist who keeps tweaking the Great Novel in their weekend hours, photos of famous authors working in their offices, turned into visually rich canvas wall art, can be great mental and emotional food for those days when the words don’t come so easily and ‘your’ room seems to be a cold, unforgiving place.
Similarly, in the kitchen, photos of the great chefs at work in their kitchens can offer a despairing home chef a stiff upper lip moment when they think they’ve ruined dinner – they can glance up and see a master at work, take a deep breath, and go once more into the fray.
Inspiring with Collage
Another great approach to using your interior design and decoration to turn ‘your’ room into an inspiration for your creative endeavours is the collage approach: Litter the wall with lots of small-scale but high-impact images. Anything and everything that catches your eye – amazing meals or colourful ingredients for a kitchen, interesting city scenes or fanciful science-fiction landscapes for the office – whatever catches your eyes and generates ideas, you can turn into instant brain and spirit ‘food’ that makes your room sustaining and invigorating instead of simply a place to get stuff done.
Leave one wall blank, and slowly fill it with small canvas prints. The more colour, the more texture, the more variety the better, because you just never know what’s going to be the medicine on any particular day when you’re creatively blocked and feeling uninspired.
Whatever approach you take, when you’ve chosen your decorations click here and we’d be excited to help you on your journey by turning those inspirations into gorgeous prints for your wall. After all, that’s what inspires us!
