Mel Carpenter
And although you could invest loads of money doing a total overhaul, you don’t have to spend a fortune to make a big difference in the look and feel of your most frequented rooms. That’s right: those boring, plain, unimaginative, two-dimensional and perfectly predictable walls – that’s where the potential lies.
Whether it is adding color, texture, shape, dimension, patterning, or drama, each of these designs represents a potential transformation for your interior spaces.
This is an especially good idea if you have a smaller living room that you are hoping to improve without having to sacrifice space and storage options.
One great thing about this option is that you don’t have to sacrifice wall space in order to display art. Having the few inches at the top for photos or small plants and trinkets adds such a fun and surprising twist to this classic design.
You can create a wall like this in your home fairly simply, filling your new mini mantel with all your family’s favorite things. Looking so good you may think it’s wallpaper, this hand-painted stenciled design is a breath of fresh air for any home.
A great base for a fun and gorgeous accent wall is classic white-washed boards. When placed all together, they create a rustic, elegant look that pairs perfectly with any other wooden elements and light-colored décor.
The rustic chic look is very much in right now, so it shouldn’t be hard to find great pairings to match this cool contemporary style. These dark wood accented walls are super cool and are an easy way to make a space feel homey but with a slight edge.
This design is one that you want to cozy up in, making it reminiscent of cold dark nights in a mountain cabin. If you are looking for a way to make your space feel more intimate and to emphasize the bright colors of your home, this is a good choice.
If you choose this wallpaper for your home décor, you will find it hard not to try breathing in the fresh mountain air anytime you enter the room.
Looking like a scene from the Cascade mountains, this beautiful design features distant snowcapped peaks, lush green forests, and a gentle morning mist.
These stylish fabric wall panels are a relatively easy addition to a space that can make a big impact. Featuring a range of muted tans, burgundies, and steel blues, these panels make for a perfect accent in a neutral-toned design theme.
Another plus is that they eschew traditional approaches to accent walls like paint or wallpaper, instead introducing the additional element of texture. The fabric is described as wrinkle-free, tear-free, and durable, so you can enjoy the soft colors and texture without worrying about wear and tear. This stick-on wall paneling embraces Art Deco through and through with its upward cascading design.
One moment it looks like a bunch of leaves overlaid on each other, and the next it looks like a series of Empire State Buildings; it looks as much as like an abstract mountain range as it does a wall of arrows pointed toward the ceiling.
If you are looking for an overnight transformation of your dining or living room, check out this incredible stick-on wall design. Just choose a prominent wall that needs a little life added to it, measure the space you’d like to cover, order the materials from this Etsy store, and apply using the included Velcro tape.
Apply to a small corner wall for a tasteful addition or go big and bold by featuring the pattern on a kitchen or dining room ceiling. As you can see, there is definitely not just one way of creating an accent wall, nor one single style that is going to work for every person, every house, or every room. And that brings up a good point: You can stick to redesigning one wall for now, but don’t feel you have to stop there.
In other words, the investment is low and the return is high when you put the accent on great wall design.
