6 Savvy Ideas For Decorating Your Interiors With Canvas Art Prints

Interior Design

According to InLiquid, hanging original art in your home is as critical as having a quality bed. In other words, art is an essential piece of furniture that you wouldn’t want to miss in your interiors. This is because it influences the mood of your houses’ occupants, portrays your sense of style, and spruces up the otherwise boring walls. (1)

One popular type of wall art for home interiors is canvas prints. They’re usually budget-friendly, come in several size options, are highly durable, and can attain museum-quality prints. Also, they look stunning, since they don’t produce any glare and reflections, regardless of your home’s lighting conditions.

Arch2O 6 ideas for decorating your interiors with canvas art prints

If this convinces you and you decide to buy canvas prints for your interiors, here are six savvy ideas of decorating with them:

Create a focal point

The Spruce defines a “focal point” as the element your eyes land on upon getting into a room. To add to that, a focal point also refers to the area that demands the most attention of people spending time in a specific space. You shouldn’t leave your family members and visitors to guess what they should look at and talk about while at your home. It’s your responsibility to create a distinct area of interest within your interiors that viewers will subconsciously be drawn to. (2)

One genius way to create a focal point is by hanging oversized canvas prints. For the living room, you can have one or several above the fireplace or the three-seater couch. For the bedrooms, the empty wall above the bed’s headboard is a perfect spot. And for the kitchen, look for an empty wall with no with shelves or other fixtures.

For an even stronger emphasis, you’d want to paint the wall in question a different color from the rest of the neutral walls. Think of bold hues, such as yellow, green, red, or pink, for the accent wall. The resulting focal point will be unmistakable.

Personalize

It’s true there are thousands, if not millions, of canvas prints to choose from. Nearly everything under the sun has been depicted in art. But your favorite local or online art shop may not have the exact image you want. It’s in such cases that you need to order custom canvas prints. All you have to do is provide the dealer with your favorite image and specify your preferred dimensions. They’ll print a high-quality art piece and deliver it to your doorstep.

On this account, consider developing a captivating family portrait into a canvas print. You’ll never grow tired watching your beautiful family immortalized on the walls. You can also imprint substantial images of places and objects that you’ve shot with your phone camera. Alternatively, consider pictures of your favorite celebrities or their photoshopped images that you can’t find anywhere else.

Combine several pieces to form a gallery wall

Gallery walls date back to 17th-century Paris, where paintings of Royal Academy graduates were displayed floor-to-ceiling so as not to leave out any pieces. This arrangement style quickly picked on among art enthusiasts, and it still rocks up to date. In fact, it isn’t a trend. It has been there for hundreds of years, and it isn’t set to go away anytime soon. So don’t listen to those who claim gallery walls are over. (3)

Collect several canvas prints and spare one wall to display them all. You can decide to have all of them in one size or combine different-sized pieces. For the latter option, it’d be best to hang the biggest in the middle and surround it with the smaller ones. Make sure to leave enough spaces around each canvas print—preferably 3 to 6 inches—to avoid a crowded appearance.

Hang them in unpredictable places

There are no hard rules when it comes to hanging canvas prints. Your creativity plays a crucial role in the final look of the space you’re decorating. So stretch your imagination by decorating these often-ignored spots in your home:

Corners where two bare walls meet
Inside the toilet
Inside a non-functional fireplace
In front of a bookshelf
Under a slanted ceiling
Above kitchen cabinets
Underneath your stairs
In front of windows (as long as you don’t compromise natural lighting in your home)
Just below the ceiling trim (to defy the notion that art must be hung at eye level)
On your patio
Inside door-less shelves (4)

Split canvas prints

Another popular decor trend is printing a single image on several separate canvas panels of similar quality and vibrancy. When you arrange these pieces close to each other but with noticeable spaces between them, you pull out an impressive and show-stopping wall decor that any art-conscious onlooker can’t help but marvel at.

It’s not a must that the different canvas panels be of the same size. The central ones can be bigger, with the sizes decreasing as you move to those at the outer edges.

Use hexagonal pieces

Close in popularity to the split canvas prints are the hexagon-shaped ones. It’s said that only three regular shapes of identical sizes can perfectly fill a flat plane—that is, equilateral triangles, squares, and hexagons. But nature prefers hexagons, as seen in honeycombs, a fly’s eyes, soap, basalt columns, snowflakes, nuts, gems, minerals, soccer balls, and tie knots. (5)

You’d want to imitate these by hanging hexagon-shaped canvas prints on your walls. It’s a much-welcome break from the usual rectangular pieces that people are so used to. If you choose this option, make a point of arranging several pieces to form interesting patterns on your walls.

Conclusion

Canvas prints are an excellent wall art option for your house interiors. The six tips outlined in this post should be a great starting point for your home decor project. But that’s not the end of the story. Feel free to explore more options once you master these. Again, your creativity will help you achieve a unique look in your spaces. You don’t have to copy any ideas out there. Use them as a mere guide to come up with breathtaking ideas for your walls.