Good designers find inspiration for their room decor in the most ordinary places. Having a physical referral that you can use as you develop your design process, makes the whole design operation more straightforward. The other thing that is fantastic about using a muse like a magnificent canvas artwork for your design plan is that you know all of the colors in it work together, so you can combine shades that you would otherwise never dare to use together.
Colors that Blend Well Together
By using a reference for your living room's design inspiration, you can not even think about choosing a color palette. Look at the main color in the work of art, and select that as your main accent color. Then think about the other colors in the painting, so you can decide on a couple of additional colors for your design. The next couple of hues will be a pale, neutral color to paint your walls and then any other color to bring in as a secondary accent color. Especially if you are not skilled at mixing colors, the artist of your inspiration painting has already taken care of that for you, so it is a perfect way to choose your room's color palette.
Echoing the Painting's Theme
One other way to use your inspiration painting to design your living room is to use the subject matter of the painting as the foundation for your room’s design. For example, a vineyard painting may inspire you to design your living room in a Tuscan style, or an beach painting may inspire you to create a port side theme in your living room. The automatic side effect that happens when you use an inspiration painting for your room’s design is that your colors and your subject will naturally go perfectly together. Since all of the colors in your living room are represented in your picture, you know that they will, not only look great together, but they will work together with synergy. While you are using colors from your painting throughout you living room design, you can also repeat patterns and plants to pull your look together. If your seashore painting has a palm tree depicted in it, you may want to add a wide leaf fern or small palm in your living room furnishings.
Employing your Inspiration Painting as a Focal Point
Mounting your inspiration artwork on the wall serves to unite the colors and furnishings in your living room while creating a focal wall. If the painting is very large, then it can stand on its own as the focal point of the living room. Smaller paintings can be grouped together with other pieces to finish a focal wall. For example, if your inspiration painting is a beach scene, you may decide to create your focal point as a single shelf holding the wall art along with other beach items like seashells and a crystal holder filled with a sea grass display.
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