Colour Considerations for Wall Décor in Your Home

Using framed prints on your walls as part of your home and wall décor is nothing new, but the ability to create these amazing pieces of canvas art with your own personal photos via online photo printing is – and people everywhere are bringing that personal touch to their interior designs with photos of their families, their pets, their vacation spots, or simply inspirational photos captured throughout their lives.

While you can have a tremendous impact decorating your home with these sorts of personal photos, there are other considerations, colour being chief among them. Because the photos we randomly snap of our children, dogs, or friends and surroundings don’t come with instructions on how to integrate them into our interior designs. Here are a few things to consider when bringing canvas prints as wall art into our homes.

Canvas Wall Art and Colour Tip 1: Saturate

The first step towards successfully using canvas art on your walls to augment your home’s design with your personal photos is to consider colour before you even take the first photo. Investigate the settings on your camera. If using a smartphone, download the best camera App available. Set things up so that when you take a photo, the colours are deep and bright and saturated – almost unreal-looking. The key here is that you’re not necessarily looking for photos that you will glance at to spark memories, but rather you’re creating wall art – you can always fade the colours later in editing, but you can’t make them more vibrant if they start off faded and bland.

Canvas Wall Art and Colour Tip 2: Choose Wisely

The next step is to think about colour while you’re taking photos. Consider the light: Overcast days will give you more muted colours, so wait for sunny days. Consider your subjects: If you’re taking photos of your family, make sure they’re dressed in bright colours. The best way to ensure a powerful colour moment on your walls is to arrange for a powerful colour moment in your photo to begin with. This can be as simple as choosing the most colourful moment available to you for a snap, or it could be as involved as planning the outfits and background of every actor in your photo. Either way, the key is planning.

Canvas Wall Art and Colour Tip 3: Implement

Once you have your database of colour-infused canvas prints, the final step is to use them wisely. There are several strategies:

• Complement. If your room has a colour palette or theme, your canvas art can complement it. For example, if your walls are mint and the furniture white, you can find other shades of green that draw from both and tie the walls and furniture together nicely.
• Pop It. Alternatively, you can use your colourful canvas prints as ‘pops’ of colour. In that same room, some nice bright yellows or blues would stand out, draw the eye, and break up some of the monotony of the minty walls.
• Dominate. One other strategy is to take white walls and minimalist furniture and use your canvas art as the entire colour palette, bringing colour into the room with noisy, crowded prints that have a lot of colours going on – just be sure to match the prints so their colours complement each other.

There you have it. You have full control over your home design, especially when using canvas art – but you have to use that control starting before you take a single photo. Once you’ve gotten control of your colour palette, let’s get started creating amazing wall art!