The living room is usually the guest reception place in your house, so it should be decorated carefully and impressively. You have a lot of things to make your living room more gorgeous such as designing the ceiling, choosing furniture and decoration elements, setting the lights and decorating the walls.
Sometimes, decorating the living room walls will go into a deadlock, because you do not have enough decoration ideas for large living room walls. The 9 ideas for living room wall decoration below are for your reference.
1. Wall decoration idea for the living room with mirrors
Mirrors are a popular element for wall decoration in the living room. Mirrors on the wall will make you feel the living room space is larger, so it is effective for small living rooms. It optimizes the brightness for the large or low-light living room because it reflects the light. Parallel with functions of decoration, space duplication and light multiplication, you can use those mirrors to look at yourself before you go out.
2. Use plants to make the living room more green
Adding some plants is a smart idea to create some fresh air for your house. This time, let’s try hanging them on the living room wall instead of placing them on the floor. However, you have to consider the type of plants which will be hung on the wall. I recommend indoor plants from the Crassulaceae family such as Burro’s-tail, Sedum, Jade Plant…for wall decoration. Because most of them are small and neat, they will be easily hung on the wall. They are CAM plants, so their features are arid condition adaptability and oxygen release at night. With those features, you do not need to water them too much, which can make the wall dirty, and your health will not be affected at night.
3. Shelves for wall decoration in the living room
Using shelves is also a good idea to decorate your living room wall. Parallel with the decoration purpose, you can use those shelves for storing objects. However, Decoration shelves, for themselves, are also decor elements, so their structure sometimes will not be as concrete as normal shelves. Therefore, you should not put heavy stuff or too many things on those decoration shelves.
4.light up the living room wall
Decorative light is also a two-function decoration element. It is not only decorating the living room wall but also lighting up the room. There are a lot of ideas you can go with the light for living room wall decoration. For the simplest example, you can run LED wire from the ceiling to the floor with random bright points as rain. You can also use LED Strip to draw some simple things such as your signature, symbols, easy pictures…However, I recommend using LED strips/wire combined with other decoration elements or using decorative wall lamps. Because it will be boring at day if you only use LED strip or wire.
5. Decorate the living room wall with pictures
Almost people will think about pictures when they try to decorate their living room walls. This is a classic method that appeared a long time ago, but it is still effective in modern life. If you are a drawing lover, living room walls are ideal places to show off your talent. However, you have to consider whether the pictures hung on the wall are in harmony with the living room or not. Picture content, color and size are the main points on that you need to focus for choosing a picture and hanging it on the living room walls
6. Wood slat idea for living room wall
Wood slat is one of the special ideas for the living room wall decoration. There are a lot of ways to install wood slats on your living wall. For example, wood slats can be set up vertically, horizontally, or diagonally as well as you can create some simple textures with them. The vertical wood slat wall is my favorite because it takes the least time to build and limits dust from sticking to them.
7. Build Gallery for the living room wall
Living room walls are also the best places to set up the gallery about something which means to you. It may be memorable places, photo collections or family photos. Normally, there will be 7 steps to create a gallery.
- Decide the theme of your gallery
- Choose the outstanding photos
- Select the picture frame
- Measure and design the layout on your living room wall
- Hanging
- Have a final look
8. Decorate the living room with Murals
The mural is a large picture which is drawn directly to the surfaces of the walls, ceilings or other permanent substrates. The mural is known as the oldest human art form, as cave paintings, and can be found around the world. In interior design, Mural is popular for wall and ceiling decoration. However, you should not try decorating your living room wall with murals by yourself if you are not a dexterous person. I recommend hiring a mural artist to save time and effort.
9. Design an accent wall
An accent wall is a wall with a different design compared with other walls in that room. It could be a different color, material or structure. For example, if your living room is mainly decorated with light colors like white, you can choose a neuter color like gray for the accent wall to maintain the light color theme of the room. Alternatively, the Dark Army Green is a good choice for a contrastive color accent wall. Wallpaper, tile or special textures are other methods to design an outstanding accent wall.
In conclusion, there are many ways and ideas to decorate your living room walls, but the 9 ideas that I shared above are the most popular. I hope with these ideas your living room walls will become more outstanding and stunning.