The accented wall in the interior became a classic technique of modern designers. Arranging the right accents in the room by highlighting one wall with color or texture is a simple way of creating a special, unique living space.
However, in the design of the accent wall there are some subtleties and rules. If you want to learn how to properly focus on the wall, "House of Dreams" will help to understand this issue.
Creating an accent wall: simple rules
The accent wall can solve quite a lot of problems when decorating a room, if you really use the basic techniques of building an interior design. To focus on the wall, which can not only attract attention, but also improve the design of the room, the following rules will help:
- the accent wall in the room should be one, very rarely - two. But you should never do just three accents on the walls - it will bring dissonance into the room and look grotesque;
- can be identified only part of one of the walls, or even focus exclusively on architectural elements of the wall: arches and niches;
- to build an interior with an accent wall can be both in color contrast, and on a softer combination of tones, depending on the desired effect;
- using warm and cold colors, you can visually both bring the accented wall closer and visually push it away;
- accent wall is an excellent option for zoning space. With this simple technique, you can designate a rest area in the living room or separate the dining area from the kitchen;
- do not forget that the emphasis on one wall sets the tone for the whole interior, and it is this decision of the designer that can finally balance the design of the room.
Accent wall: interesting solutions and basic techniques
The possibilities of the modern world in designing the interior, including the accent wall, are truly limitless. However, there are always tricks that are used most often.
Color
It can be as contrasting with the basic shade of the room, and it is in tune with it. Often this method is used when painting the room with paint or paper.
Texture
The accent wall can be in the same color range as the rest of the room's walls, but be decorated with textured plaster, 3D panels, woodenbeams, artificial stone, masonry, mosaic or something else, the opposite of the texture of the rest of the walls of the room.
The color of the room can be identical or different on each wall, butone of them - the one on which the accent is made, is decorated with an active print using wallpaper, a stencil, a certain pattern, a fresco. Sometimes a graphic drawing is created on one of the walls.
Decorative elements
To create an accent on one or two walls you can and do not start repairs - just decorate the necessary walls with elements of interior decor. For this frame, baguettes, sockets, photos, paintings, plates, bamboo elements, false-fireplaces or soft panels - anything you like, for your taste!
Wall-papers and vinyl stickers
Both decorative stickers and wallpapers allow you to change the interior magically, bringing one of the wallsnecessary accent.
These are the most typical solutions for residents of city apartments. All these methods can be used both individually and in combination with each other.
Original ways to focus on one wall
Using a variety of possibilities, interior designers create non-standard, stunning variations of the accent wall:
- ring spikes
- antique billboards
- microcrete cover
- world map Graffiti
- Fabric panels
- Patchwork and much more
Accent wall in the interior of different rooms
Interesting solutions associated with the accent wall, you can create in any room in your house. As a rule, most often an accent wall is used in the interior of the living room and bedroom, but there are interesting solutions in the design of children's rooms, hallway, bathrooms. Let's see how the use of such a technique differs, as the emphasis on the wall, in the design of different rooms.
In the living room
Most often in the living room you can find an accent on the wall with a TV.This decision is completely justified - as a rule, designers try to make it more active in comparison with the design of other walls.
Another accent wall in the living room can be located to highlight the rest area above the sofa. This accent on the wall can be an excellent background for interior details, paintings, photographs and a variety of decor.
Much less often used accents in the design of the wall, not occupied by any TV, or soft furniture, for example - the end wall with window blocks. This may be caused by the desire to highlight the textile design of the window, combining it with the main range of room design, or when trying to visually draw or narrow the room.
In bedroom
Unlike the living room, the accent wall in the bedroom is almost in100% of cases is intended to emphasize the main subject in the interior of this room - a bed. That is why the emphasis on the wall behind the head of the bed has become an element of the classic design of the sleeping area.
Quite rare, but from this no less effective, make one accent behind the headboard, and the second - in the zone of the dressing table, interior niche or dressing room.
In the kitchen
Which walls in the kitchen make it reasonable to make the leading? Of course, this is a working area - a kitchen apron, which can act as an accent wall in the kitchen, attracting increased attention to the cooking area.
However, this technique has already bored designers, and increasingly there are accent walls, designed to draw attention to the dining area.
children's room
As a rule, the accent wall in the nursery is located in the play area. It is there that kids spend most of the day and this, by definition, is the most active interior zone.
But if the entire children's room is decorated brightly and festively, then the accent area can be just a bedroom or a workplace, made in a more relaxed design.
In the hallway
The impression of the whole house begins with the entrance hall. And it's not surprising that here, too, you want to place the right accents, highlighting the area in front of the mirror.
And you can make an attempt to visually widen the entrance hall: visually to remove the opposite wall from the entrance with the help of light, cold shades.
In the bathroom or toilet
Interesting solutions are offered by tile manufacturers, allowing the wall behind the bathroom to transform into a real work of art.
Whatever way of embodying the idea you choose, the accent wall in the interior will be the right solution. If the view is where to catch on, the interior can no longer become boring, which means that you have achieved the desired goal by setting the necessary dynamics in the room decoration and putting emphasis!