5 trendy ideas for living room walls

In recent years, domestic space has become increasingly personal and welcoming, thanks to the desire to make every corner of the house unique. In the kitchen as in the living room, vital hubs of daily conviviality, new solutions are sought to decorate walls and ceilings that have always been overlooked. The current trend, in fact, seeks to make them real scenography, original and captivating, intervening with small restyling operations. Sometimes you don't need to overdo it! The walls of the living room can change their face by following simple rules and combining beautiful colors with new ideas, just as if they were paintings.

Let's discover 5 solutions to embellish the walls of the living room with colorful decorations and some useful advice for their design application.

1. COLOR-BLOCKING: PAINTING THE LIVING ROOM BY COMBINING MULTIPLE COLORS

It is certainly a new design trend that comes from art, in particular from the artist Piet Mondrian, and sees the combination of contrasting and complementary colors on the wall in order to characterize the surface. It will be possible to create an interesting and unique dynamic effect that will light up the walls of your living room in an instant, sometimes without resorting to the use of additional decorative elements. This technique is certainly among the favorites of those who want to obtain an unusual environment using a mix of bold and contrasting colors.

Here are some helpful tips for applying color blocking on living room walls:  

• Paint a single wall or a portion, in order to enhance its geometry and highlight a specific and unique area of ​​the room. In the case of a small living room, it could be an excellent solution to bring dynamism.
• Matching multiple shades, creating color intersections to enhance a piece of furniture or a corner. Obviously the shades must be combined harmoniously.
• Paint all surfaces in the room, including door profiles, ceilings or parts of them, and radiators that will be transformed into original design elements. This solution will certainly have to be combined with essential and minimal furnishings.
• Playing with geometry, using different shapes like triangles, circles or squares.
• Matching color to plants, if you are a lover of green. In this way the colors will be perfectly integrated with each other and will create a refined atmosphere 

Even an anonymous and unappreciated space in the house can become a beautiful place for experimentation and be transformed into a bold painting. Obviously, what must never be missing is the harmony of the parts; therefore, it is important to carefully plan the colors of the paint and proportion the "drawing" to be executed.

Color is obviously the absolute protagonist, especially the intense and full shades. Its composition, in addition to enhancing parts of the living room, can also act as an interesting visual divider between the different parts of the room.
Color block is particularly suitable for small geometries that can be enhanced and appear larger with just the well-calibrated use of colors. On the contrary, in a larger room, you can also dare with dark or very bright shades. To complete, you can play with details, inserting colorful and whimsical furnishing accessories.

2. PAINT THE CEILING WITH BRIGHT SHADES: A NEW IDEA FOR DECORATING THE LIVING ROOM

Surely in the common and most usual imagination, ceilings tend to be white and visually accompany the creativity of the walls. For some time now, a new and bold tendency to paint ceilings with colorful and unusual tones has spread. The reason is simple: they add personality and charisma to the room, showing a fanciful note that does not weigh down. 
There may be a situation where the ceiling is colored and the walls are white, so as to create a very obvious contrast, or the idea of ​​having everything colored, both the walls and the ceiling. Five surfaces completely covered and painted. 

There is an interesting case where this technique is functional as well as aesthetically beautiful: the open space. Large, bright, often characterized by significant heights, this space can become the right place to experiment. Decorating the walls and clearly highlighting the different environments can, in fact, prove to be a good method to make the entire surface harmonious.
Tips for designing your ceiling perfectly:

• use dark shades to reduce the height of a ceiling that is too high and thus bring it closer to the floor;
• use lighter shades to visually increase the height of the walls;
• imagine a color stripe that includes a small portion and illuminates an area to be enhanced.

In just a few steps, you will get a completely new and fresh image of the living room!

3. WALLPAPER: AN EVERGREEN FOR DECORATING WALLS WITH STYLE

Wallpaper is undoubtedly the perfect decoration for the walls of the living room. If you are short on ideas for an original painting, you can certainly rely on fabric wallpaper, which has reached, in recent years, truly exceptional levels of high definition printing. Increasingly a protagonist of interior design, it has become one of the favorite choices of architects and designers thanks to its versatility.

Here are three things to consider when choosing:

• The quality of the materials: we recommend that you prefer wallpapers printed with certified ecological inks.
• Technical performance: it is a product with a good duration over time, about 10 years. There is washable TNT wallpaper, easy to apply and maintain, vinyl paper and 3D paper, a novelty of recent years that will guarantee a particular three-dimensional effect, for those looking for an eccentric touch.
• Design and graphic patterns: the choice of colors and designs of the wallpaper will depend above all on the style you want to give to the living room and the needs of those who live there. There are many patterns available on the market and they will allow you to create unique and particular effects.

4. DECORATE THE LIVING ROOM WALLS WITH 3D EFFECT CERAMICS

Covering walls with new and precious materials is an interesting trend, which elegantly enhances vertical surfaces. If 3D technology is then used, the result is truly spectacular! Many companies have been able to exploit Italian manufacturing by combining it with new and contemporary ideas.
The walls of the living room can become textured relief paintings thanks to the application of ceramic elements and tiles.
It is an ideal solution for those who are looking for an original and tailor-made idea to decorate the wall, given the possibility of resizing the image as desired.

Of course, the combination of different patterns can give life to interesting collages that will shine even more with the play of light. Monochrome or colored, the choice is really wide and suitable for covering any wall in the living room. The 3D surfaces, soft to the touch, manage to perfectly combine the classic ceramic covering with a surprising sculptural effect, thus creating environments that are always dynamic. 
Here are some helpful design tips:

• If you prefer colorful 3D coverings, try to identify a single wall to enhance. In this way, the entire living area will not be weighed down.
• Play with lighting, perfect for creating interesting light and shadow effects. You will easily notice how the walls manage to change appearance throughout the day, from natural light to artificial light in the evening.
• You can think of inserting them as dividers of adjacent environments. They will thus be transformed into objects to be admired with a precise function.
• Select shapes and textures more in line with the geometry of the space in order to create a pleasant visual continuity between the parts.

5. NEON LIGHTS: AN ORIGINAL AND FUN TOUCH TO THE LIVING ROOM

Decorating the walls of the living room with neon lights can be a truly original and unexpected option. Thanks to the numerous options available on the market, it will be possible to choose between the most varied shapes and models. Used since the 1980s, neon lights create an ambient light capable of necessarily accompanying the main lighting.

One of the positive aspects of using neon is definitely its versatility. With a little imagination, you can create wonderful works of art that, even when turned off, are admired and acquire more and more charm. Functionality and aesthetics combine, thus, to give life to a perfect decoration for walls.
Here are some interesting ideas for designing your Neon Art concept:

• Using custom shapes. In addition to those already predefined, many laboratories create unique hand-crafted objects, born from inspiration and creativity. An example of this are the luminous writings that can transform into real artistic creations.
• If you want to give a pop touch in the living room, you can choose rather bright fluorescent colors, perhaps combined with a wall paint. The result will be perfect for those looking for an eclectic and cheerful effect.
• Place the lights in strategic points, in order to enhance a corner or a wall. With simplicity you can characterize a part of the living room, without adding further details to the wall.
• Il White always has a great charm. For those who do not want to dare, choosing a white neon light can be a good compromise. Light and delicate, it can add an elegant touch adapting to all styles.

Many old neon signs can be found in flea markets and antique shops. Unique pieces with inestimable value!