How to choose the right picture for the interior of the room

For every person, comfort in the house is something special, unique, filled with warmth and emotions, memories or dreams of residents. In any interior, a person puts a part of his mood, character, fills the space in the house in accordance with his preferences, as a result of which he gets a unique and familiar environment with a bunch of thoughtful small details that form a holistic image of a small world.

Pictures give the interior a special charm and originality, emphasize the taste and individuality of the owners of the house

Often, when creating an atmosphere in a house, it is necessary to revive the space, fill it with new colors, emotions, inspirations. This goal can be easily achieved by hanging pictures for the interior in the desired places..

Examples of room decoration with paintings

Any room carries its own mood, so a picture for its interior should be chosen depending on the purpose of a particular room. For example, for a bedroom, it is better to choose calm canvases in the form of your favorite flowers or landscapes. For piquancy, you can use images with erotic notes.

Landscape is a good choice for a bedroom interior

For the kitchen, images of juicy still lifes, beautiful dishes, graceful butterflies or ripe sunflowers are suitable. For a children’s room, you can pick up from the image of cartoon characters, kind animals or beautiful dolls.

The tradition of decorating the living room with paintings has long roots.

In the living room, the flight of fantasies is practically unlimited. Here you can find wide canvases with a plot composition, with abstraction, modular works, works with a pleasing landscape, flowers, famous buildings, portraits of famous people – everything that expresses the owner makes his world individual.

Icons, paintings, interior carpets

A pleasant combination of exquisite taste with spirituality can be expressed in the work in the form of an icon. If earlier there was a special place for icons somewhere in a secluded corner in the kitchen or bedroom, now the walls of offices, living rooms and even bedrooms are decorated with icons in the form of chic paintings with rich massive frames..

The icons will be especially appropriate when decorating the bedroom interior in the old Russian style.

You can add softness and at the same time complement the furnishings with carpets, both floor and wall. A bright, flashy design can be slightly calmed by a monochromatic, calm floor carpet, and the walls of workrooms are decorated with chic paintings with rich massive frames, state rooms with a glaring, painted carpet can be used to decorate the wall of one of the rooms of the apartment.

Framed painting

The design of the wall is created not only by the picture itself, but also by the frame in which it is enclosed. Most often, white frames are found, but you can choose individual frames for each room:

made of wood;
made of plastic;
massive metal;
black and white;
carved frames with monograms and volumetric patterns;
decorated with flowers, nuts, stones.

Painting in a baguette frame on the wall of a classic living room

The current trend is canvases without any framing, imitating only the finished work, which has not yet been framed..

Modular paintings are often performed without frames.

How to choose a painting for the interior of different rooms

To choose a painting for each room, you need to decide what is the best location you would like to stay in it. For example, if in the bedroom you would like to feel relaxed in the evening, but at the same time fresh and cheerful in the morning, the image of the sea breeze or flowering fields against the background of dawn is suitable..

The best solutions for the bedroom will be pastel colors and soothing plots.

In the kitchen, any housewife wants to feel like a desirable woman, which means it will be useful to add works with your favorite flower buds combined with bright juicy fruits.

Room functionality: paintings for the interior of each room

From the point of view of the functionality of each room in an apartment or house, it is better to select pictures in them as follows:

First you need to define the function of each room. Each apartment has a different functionality in a particular room..
Determine the color scheme and basic shapes of the room.
Choose an image that best suits the functionality, colors and shapes of each room.

Symmetrically located canvases make the atmosphere more strict and restrained.

Principles for the selection of paintings:

Room in an apartment or house	Functionality	Colors and shapes	Image options
Living room	Reception of guests, watching TV	Brown, square	Abstraction, city
Children’s room	Playing with children, doing lessons	Light, angular	Animals
Bedroom	Rest of a married couple with a baby	Pastel shades, rounded	Bright and happy family, or personal photos
Rest of a single man	Dark shades, asymmetric	Black and white painting of a half-naked woman; Successful man
Kitchen	Cooking food, eating	Yellow shades, rectangular	Still lifes, landscapes
Reception of family and friends with treats	Green colors, oval	Funny company

Asymmetry adds dynamism to the room

Living room decor

When the once inspiring renovation is a little fed up, and it’s too early to make a new one or you don’t want to, you can bring some decor elements into the living room that will revive the room and fill it with new colors. As a decor in the living room, you can do:

tapestry on the wall;
new carpet;
curtains that you have dreamed of for a long time;
paintings;
wallpaper.

The main rule for choosing a picture for a living room is compliance with the general style of the room

Wall decor in the hallway and kitchen

In the hallway, decorative elements can be:

new hangers, hooks for clothes;
wall decoration with textured stones;
filling with mirrors.

The size and number of paintings for the hallway are selected taking into account the size of the room

In the kitchen, you can decorate:

interesting colored shelves;
glue the kitchen set with adhesive tape of interesting colors.

Fashionable options for the office

Any client, visitor or employee will appreciate the fashionable interior in the office, which is not complete without modern accessories: glass tables, decorated floor lamps, interesting paintings depicting abstractions, majestic mountains, famous and successful people. At the same time, such an interior will look holistic when using the same material and frame color as the furniture available in this room..

In office buildings, walls are often decorated with modular paintings.

Paintings in a modern interior: style and accents

The arrangement of color accents, emphasis on the incompatibility of styles is characteristic of the modern design of apartments. So, in the modern interior, a certain minimalism can be traced: luxurious fleecy carpets have been replaced by carpets made of thick curtains, chic monograms and candelabra have replaced lamps without floor lamps and black and white furniture.

Abstract canvases refresh the look of the room and give it a new sound

This is where it will be fashionable and stylish to add bright accents on the wall. Unusual canvases for this style will be quite appropriate..

What to choose: classic or creative?

Many people think: what will look more appropriate in his house – a copy of the work of a famous classic or the creative work of a novice artist.

Copies of famous canvases are a win-win option for an interior in a classic style

Of course, you need to choose according to the style of the entire interior of each particular room. And do not forget that different rooms can have different styles, so that your apartment is able to combine both classics and creativity..

Pop art paintings

A new evolving style in design is pop art. Amazing paintings with a riot of colors and emotions, bright and neon images – this is the main idea of this style. This style will fit well into the apartment of a young energetic family, or a youth fitness room..

The main feature of the pop art style is its ambiguity.

Paintings in the kanzashi technique in the interior

Each picture made using the kanzashi technique is practically unique and individual, since most of them are made by needlewomen from ribbons, beads, beads and other fabric materials. Original embroidery on canvas on the theme of flowers, plants and greenery will perfectly fit into a cozy bedroom or kitchen.

Due to its grace and positive energy, kanzashi paintings are suitable for any room in the house.

Paintings for the interior in the baroque style, nude genre

Not everyone can afford a luxurious baroque style in an apartment or house. But those happy owners of this style are refined aristocrats who emphasize their status, wealth, taste with their choice. And the choice of a painting for the Baroque style is a responsible task, since it should also ideally fit the royal style. These can be canvases by famous artists of the 17th – 18th centuries.

The paintings are among the main decorative elements of the Baroque interior, as well as the fireplace, figurines and moldings.

The nude genre can also be attributed to an infrequent one. Not everyone dares to hang works in the nude genre in their homes. They depict half-naked girls, which gives them a special piquancy and eroticism..

Nude painting on the wall of a stylish loft living room

Painting in the spirit of surrealism in the interior

Those who like to delve into the subconscious, to find many meanings of the same objects, it is imperative to create a picture in the spirit of surrealism.

A copy of Salvador Dali’s painting “Meditative Rose” on the wall of the living room

It can be both copies of the canvases of the famous Salvador Dali, and the work of novice artists..

Impressionist paintings

Such works are created by artists without certain contours and black colors, they are not drawn in workshops and without mixing paints on a palette. Interestingly blurred shapes and outlines of images may appeal to high art connoisseurs.

Inspirational canvas by Haykui Khachatryan

Pictures of this style should not be burdened with massive frames..

Paintings and furniture

When choosing, a prerequisite is to combine them in style, material and colors with the existing furniture. In general, it will be harmonious when the emphasis is on individual details – either it is bright, impressive furniture and calm tones of the picture, or vice versa – discreet furniture in combination with flashy canvases.

Canvas with a traditional landscape in a Victorian-style living room with Art Nouveau elements

In any case, do not place them next to a wardrobe or windows, above a TV or next to a mirror. Better to take a free wall or free space above the sofa, bed or above the dining table.

Composition of multiple images

Interesting compositions of several images have become widespread. Several paintings of the same thematic series are arranged in a symmetrical order, either in a row or in several. Or asymmetrical, placing the largest one in the center.

The plot of a modular picture is able to emphasize the features of a room. For example, canvases with an airplane taking off will fit perfectly into an elongated living room with a high ceiling.

Such compositions can contain both several images, and one, divided into several parts..

Where to place the painting?

Place the selected artwork on the wall approximately opposite the eyes, or slightly higher. If the picture will be located above the dining table, then it is better to hang it in front of the view from a sitting position..