Accent wall in the interior

The modern interior of the guest room must necessarily be at least something unique, because this, one might say, is the main room in the house - its face. If the interior of the living room is typical, boring, what do you think, what impression your guests will make on your home? Definitely not the best, because the current fashion trends and opportunities are fundamentally different from those that were welcomed even 20-30 years ago. That is why it is so important to understand what an accent wall is in the interior, to find out all the nuances of its design.

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What is an accent wall and why is it needed in the living room?

As a rule, it represents some interesting, eye-catching, bright design of a more or less large section of the wall. Depending on the chosen design composition, the highlight of the interior of the room for receiving guests may be:

• Some kind of accessory.
• Piece of furniture.
• Refined and expensive lamp.
• Beautiful wall.

Important! Quite often, the entire wall can be used to design an accent element.

The main requirements for such decoration of the living room is to ensure that it matches the spirit of the interior design of the room and stands out against the background of the primary colors used to decorate vertical and horizontal surfaces.

So why do you need an accent wall in the living room? Maybe it’s better to do without her by choosing something else? Let's consider what advantages this solution provides:

• It makes it possible to dilute the uniform interior with the help of a metered, bright detail of the design of a vertical surface.
• Such a design element immediately attracts the attention of guests, and they will have something to do in the first few minutes of the visit, looking at a beautiful accent composition on the wall.
• It distracts attention from any unsightly element of the interior that is nearby, thereby improving the experience of guests from the design composition of the living room.

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The principles of design accent wall in the living room

If you still decide to design an accent wall in the interior of the living room, then it is worth considering that its proper creation is a rather difficult task that requires a competent and thoughtful approach. If you take this work lightly, then you can seriously “break firewood”, as a result - you have to redo everything. And this is additional financial and labor costs, not to mention the spent nerves.

To facilitate your task and form a common understanding of the conceptual aspects of creating an accent wall and its role in the interior, experienced specialists in the field of design have developed a number of design principles for this element of the living room decoration:

• The surface area of ​​the accent wall should be less than the total area of ​​the remaining vertical surfaces of the living room. In other words, from the four walls of the living room, no more than two can be used as accents. Otherwise, instead of a beautiful accent, you will get a real interior nightmare that can only be fixed with the help of a radical re-design.
• It is not necessary to use the accent wall as a single element. You can apply two “designer highlights” at once. For example, a part of the surface of the wall-arch is designed as an accent.In this case, the arch will act as a successful addition to it.
• Accent wall can be decorated in completely different ways. You can bet on bright colors, or you can highlight a wall with an attractive and unusual texture. The main thing to remember is that the results of your research fit in well with the design idea of ​​the room.
• Using bright accent walls as a basis, it is worth remembering their perception. In other words, in addition to focusing on one’s own taste, one must take into account the psychology of one color or another.

Important! It will be unpleasant if some shade of such a wall quickly bothers you or, worse, after a while it starts to annoy you.

• The location should be chosen correctly, since the overall impression that it will produce will depend on this.
• Do not be afraid to use such a wall in order to emphasize the presence of a particular functional area in the room.

Important! Designers believe that the best accent wall denotes a leisure area. Although, of course, this is a matter of personal taste.

• You should always remember that such a design move is designed to create a visual balance in the interior of the living room. It can both make the interior more harmonious, and bring imbalance into it.

Important! When designing an accent wall in the interior, it is better to spend a little more time studying the nuances of working with such an element of the interior than subsequently to "disentangle" the result.

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Location

It is very important to choose the right accent wall in the room for receiving guests. This will not only help to make the interior composition more organic, but also make it possible for the accent wall to realize all the design functions assigned to it.

Design specialists who have extensive experience in creating such interior elements give some advice on this matter:

• If the design composition of the living room allows, then do an accent wall immediately opposite the entrance to the room. This option is considered the most effective, since in this case this wall will capture the attention of guests as soon as they enter the room.
• Position it in such a way as to separate one functional area of ​​the room from another. This is especially necessary in those rooms where rooms with different functional purpose are combined, for example, kitchen and living room, bedroom and living room, and the like. Visual separation of such functional areas is simply necessary.
• Often an accent wall is made out where it is planned to place a very beautiful and eye-catching element of the interior, for example, such as a beautiful cabinet-display case or fireplace. In this case, the decorated wall will be a great addition to such an element of the interior.
• An accent wall can be designed simply in the TV viewing area, although then it is undesirable to make it too bright. This will not only distract from watching movies, but also harm the health of your eyes.

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Materials that will be needed for registration

Considering the different options for creating an accent wall, it is worth considering the materials that may be required to implement such a project.

In fact, there is no mystery in the choice of material. For these purposes, the most usual materials for wall decoration are suitable, although, of course, you can not save to create a special effect. So, for the design of such a wall the following materials may come in handy:

• Decorative plaster.
• Wallpaper.
• Tile.
• Artificial or natural stone.
• Paint.
• Brick.
• Glass panels.
• Wood and more.

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Color composition

Many owners naively believe that the most effective option to focus on the wall is to paint it in bright colors.Indeed, sometimes this helps, but for an elegant living room with a modern style, several bright spots can not always emphasize the complexity and magnificence of the design idea, so when creating such a wall, it is advisable to resort to more complex actions.

In fact, you need to create a mini color composition, which still has to be beautifully and organically combined with the color scheme of the entire room for guests, which in itself is quite difficult. When creating a color scheme for an accent wall in the interior, it is worth remembering a few simple rules:

• Warm shades visually narrow the space, so you should not use them in large quantities in a small living room. But even without them it is impossible, because the warm color makes the room more comfortable.
• Cold shades serve to expand the space, however, in large quantities they can deprive the room of comfort.
• Pastel tones of any colors alone will not be able to attract attention, and if you want to use them to design an accent wall, you should add some bright spots to them, at least in the form of textured elements.

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Thus, the accent wall is one of the necessary details, without which the design composition will look ordinary, fresh and frankly boring. Of course, you can try to replace such a wall, for example, with beautiful accessories or exquisite pieces of furniture, but it will be much more difficult to achieve such a design effect, moreover, more expensive.