Your home décor affects more than how your home looks. It has an impact on the mental health of everyone in the home, self-perception, confidence, mood, and if you need to work from home, it will affect your productivity too.
If you have never taken the time to consider the types of prints to frame and display, it’s definitely worth considering, because there’s a lot more to home décor than framing a single print you like, tapping a nail in the wall and hanging it.
Every nail in a wall to hang a frame is a commitment to the art you hang from it. Make that commitment count by framing something impactful that will help you set the atmosphere you crave, every day.
Art in the home sets the mood. The frames help beautify it and protect them so you can keep the atmosphere for as long as you want without the print deteriorating before its time.
5 Types of Art to Transform Your Home Décor
- Minimalist Line Art Drawings or Sketches
For busy rooms you feel could benefit from a little toning down in energy, there are few types of art more minimalist than line drawing posters. Despite being lines, they are a marvel to look at. Scribbles can create silhouettes of faces, entire bodies, wolves howling at an invisible moon, or hands being united.
Minimalist designs are the types to inspire calm, and depending on the artist’s creativity, some line drawings can be optical illusions that create a 3D effect to display in a 2D frame.
- Nature in a Frame
Pictures of nature are soothing and just the thing to hang indoors to awaken to that brightens your day, lifts your mood, soothes your mind and brings a little calm to the chaos of everyday life.
Small birds in flight, sunset on a blue-sky background, with perhaps some green foliage around the border by stencilling a leaf pattern directly onto a mount board then framing the print behind it.
You may be surprised by the difference little tweaks to the simplest of pictures can have.
- Celestial prints in the bedroom
Celestial prints represent different things to different people. Celestial can represent the heavens above, in which case, pictures of angels looking down from heaven could be the type of soothing print suited to a bedroom. For the non-religious, the most common celestial prints are those of night skies showing the moon and stars.
These types of wall art are ideal for overbed displays as it’s what you will see when you go to bed at night, making it easier for your mind to wind down as you think about night time, drifting to sleep and dreaming the night away. A far cry from the excitement you would feel if you had a framed poster over your bed getting you excited about an upcoming concert. Use wall art to set the mood.
- Frame some Cartoon Art for the Children
Cartoon art is perfect for the children’s bedrooms and playrooms, even the treehouse, or a garden den. They are colourful, playful and you can find a range of comic books that could be used to create a collage display with multiple cartoon characters.
- Create a Smaller Group Display with Colourful Cards
Cards aren’t limited to your traditional deck of playing cards. There are multiple types of collector’s cards, from sports trading cards including football and basketball, children’s gaming cards such as the Pokémon collection or even UNO cards as well as the intricate and colourful designs of tarot cards. They all have the same thing in common and that’s the sizing.
Most are 4” by 6” making them suitable for 7” by 5” frames. Go bigger with the frame, shorten it with an oversized mount board and you have yourself a collection of frames to create a unique gallery wall that would be ideal over a dresser, chest of drawers or a side table.
Have a look around your home to see where your walls look bland, have too much energy from bright coloured prints, or the prints that don’t make you feel anything when you look at them.
Art on your walls should evoke emotion. If yours don’t, find some art prints or photographs that do invoke feel-good vibes and print and frame those. It will make the world of a difference to how you feel when you are at home.