How to choose wallpaper: tips

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

How to choose the right wallpaper

How to choose wallpaper for photo wallpaper many are thinking about when repairing a room. At first glance, not a difficult question can, with the wrong approach, spoil the design of the entire room.

How to choose the right wallpaper for the wallpaper, we will consider today. There are a lot of design decisions on how to combine them, you just have to choose the most suitable option. Also, having looked at photos and videos, you can choose your ilk and a ready-made solution.

Choose wallpaper for the background wallpaper

How to choose a wallpaper in relation to the background, this will be the first step to making a decision. There is no such room in the apartment in which you could not use photo wallpaper as a decor. They will perfectly decorate the living room (see How to choose a wallpaper for the living room), children's room and dining room.

When planning to purchase this type of wall decoration, you need to be guided by some rules:

• The wallpaper pattern should be in harmony with the overall interior design;
• You can not subject the image on the photo wallpaper to distortion, it must fit into the framework of the room, not go beyond its borders;
• Wallpaper, which is the main background of the room to be glued, should be in harmony with the pattern on the photo wallpaper and support the overall style of the room.

Wall mural in the interior design of different rooms

With the help of successfully combined colors and images, you can achieve visual expansion of the hallway.

• To pay attention to the cabinet, you can design it by pasting with photo wallpaper. As a rule, in the hallway there are no sources of natural light, therefore, finishing materials for it are chosen in bright colors.
• You can give a unique look to the hallway by pasting wallpaper and photo wallpaper (see Wall mural in the hallway: what can they be combined with) not only the surface of the walls, but also part of the furniture. You can choose bright photo wallpapers with an imitation of a view from the window and choose the color of the main wallpaper that will be in harmony with the color of the furniture.
• A very careful approach requires the choice of finishing materials for decorating the bedroom. It is better to maintain it in calm shades. Wall mural is better to paste over the wall located behind the bed. So the image will not focus the attention of the resting person. Wallpaper with floral or floral ornaments combined with the main wallpaper background looks great.
• It looks very harmonious when the tone of bed linen is combined with the color of the wallpaper and repeats their pattern. An important point is which side the bedroom windows are looking at. If this is the sunny side, it is recommended to choose cold-colored finishing materials. The bedroom, whose windows face the southern and eastern sides, perfectly fit wallpaper containing a three-dimensional pattern. It can be an image of the sea, a forest grove or a beautiful beach.
• Successfully selected decoration for the living room will help create the right atmosphere in it. The most popular at the present time is the gluing of wallpaper with an urban image, contrasting with the main background of the wallpaper. Very beautiful floral wallpaper looks. This can be a vertically arranged floral pattern and basic wallpaper that emphasize the color palette of the photo wallpaper.
• Choosing a wallpaper in a nursery is necessary based on the personal preferences of the child. It is also necessary that the finishing material be of high quality and colorful.Images of all kinds of cartoon characters will really please children of a younger age group (see Photo wallpaper is fabulous: where can I use) Look great in children's photo wallpapers with natural motifs. They may feature jungle, beach sketches or sea landscapes.

The nuances of the correct combination of images and color palette

The choice of wallpaper will not be difficult if you follow the recommendations of professional designers on a combination of colors.

Create a background for photo wallpaper

So:

• Experts do not advise combining a bright pattern on photo wallpaper with bright background wallpaper. It is better to use a plain wallpaper covering or wallpaper containing an abstract pattern as a background. In exceptional cases, you can use a floral ornament, both on the background wallpaper, and as a picture for photo wallpaper. They should harmoniously complement each other, without interfering with the overall design of the room.
• It’s easy to choose the background wallpaper for the photo wallpaper depicting a big city (cm. City wall murals in the interior: how to choose) They can be glued to any background. Wall murals with a floral image are perfectly combined with the main wallpaper of pastel colors. Wallpaper with a dominance of green colors is recommended to combine with beige or white background wallpaper. They have a calming effect on the state of the nervous system of the inhabitants of the room. It must be remembered that the background decoration should not distract attention from the plot on the photo wallpaper, otherwise their need is reduced to zero.
• In addition to the fact that photowall-paper in interior design serves as an aesthetic addition, they can still be used to adjust the space in the room. For example, the presence of large drawings visually expands the space of the room. For this, wallpapers containing an enlarged image of a flower are great.
• The use of vertically arranged patterns on the wallpaper visually lengthens the space of the room, and wallpapers of light shades can add additional illumination to the room. A large number of dark tones present in the finishing materials will certainly add originality to the interior. However, caution should be exercised in the use of dark colors, such colors contribute to the rapid tiredness of them.
• If in the photo wallpaper, the yellow palette is the priority, then you should choose background wallpapers of beige, calm blue, light green and delicate pink. If the violet or lilac color scheme is clearly expressed in the image on the photo wallpaper, then the background decoration for them can be wallpaper in white, beige, light gray and delicate bluish shades.
• According to the recommendations of professional designers, it is better to avoid the bright color of the wallpaper in those rooms that are resting places. They can be used to decorate a children's room, but restraint should also be shown here. A vivid image should occupy only a small space of the surface of the walls and ceiling, it is advisable to stick monophonic wallpapers on the rest. You can use the application and other design finds for a harmonious design of the room.
• Photowall-paper gives the chance to combine contrasting color schemesgiving refined uniqueness to the rooms. The use of contrasts looks great in the interior of the dining room and living room.
• For the scarlet rose shown in the mural, a khaki background is suitableand irises will blend in perfectly with the orange background.

Attention: Recently, a monochrome palette of colors for interior decoration in bedrooms, dining rooms and living rooms has been very popular.

The use of photo wallpaper for zoning

Now let's look at the photo wallpaper how to choose according to the allocated zones of the room.The zonal combination of photo wallpaper and the background wallpaper can be done in several ways.

Wall mural zoning

• Photowall-paper with the image is pasted on the entire wall or only on its central part. This contributes to the visual expansion of the room space and at the same time the allocation of any one zone.
• The second option for applying photo wallpaper involves placing them on two sides of any selected object. You can purchase two copies of the photo wallpaper, or you can separate any kit into two identical halves.
• Another option is the selection of different sets of photo wallpaper, but with thematic images. The use of mirrors placed opposite the wallpaper with a pattern will help to increase the room’s space optically.

Attention: It is important that the mirrors do not reflect the background wallpaper, this will prevent the creation of the effect of extended space.

• To add more relief to the room, many use such a fashionable trend as niches created in modern apartments. It is recommended to cover the entire niche with photo wallpaper. Here, contrasting color schemes will look very profitable.

Framed Wallpaper Design

• Framed wallpaper designs are currently very popular. This creates the illusion of the presence of paintings in the interior of the room. Such an original decoration of the room can be easily done with your own hands.
• For the manufacture of frames for photo wallpaper, moldings, pilasters, brackets and other materials are used to achieve the desired relief or achieve decoration under stucco molding.
• Framed murals can be done in several simple ways to do it yourself. The first way involves framing the entire picture. The second option is the preparation of intricate compositions with identical patterns of varying sizes or the breakdown of the picture into parts of different formats. This method is great for decorating living rooms and bedrooms.

In order to independently perform such a beautiful design, you must follow a certain algorithm:

• Choose a location for the photo wallpaper, taking into account the parameters of the room, its level of illumination and other important points.
• Cut the necessary elements of the picture from the existing photo wallpaper.
• Mark the places on the wallwhere prepared drawings or one image will be located. Not necessarily their symmetrical arrangement.
• Fasten the frames to the wall surface.
• Glue the pictures inside the frames.

Attention: The sequence of the last two elements can be changed. First, you can stick the pictures on the wall, then fix the frames prepared earlier on them.

• Experts advise before designing photo wallpaper in a frame, to finish the wall surface with wallpaper used as the main background. Observing harmony in the combination of colors and images, you can achieve the necessary comfort and coziness in the rooms.

How to choose wallpaper for photo wallpaper you now understand, everything should be harmonious and pleasing to the eye. Having done all the work with your own hands, its price will not be significant and the instruction will help you foresee everything.