Every memorable design needs a little of the unexpected, and your living room is not an exception. By having a real source for your plan, you can refer to it as you are selecting your decor and keep your design on point. By selecting a canvas wall art that you find appealing to mold your living room around, you have seen that the colors work well together, so you can probably make truly inspired color choices than you usually would for your plan.
Colors that Blend Well Together
The amazing thing about using a painting as design inspiration is that you enjoy a preexisting color palette to work from. As you look at your inspiration picture, use the main hue as your living room's primary accent color. Then study other colors used in the artwork and choose them to employ in conjunction with your primary accent color. The next two hues will be a pale, intermediate color to cover your walls and then any other color to choose as a secondary accent color. Depending on a wall hanging to place your design on is a fine way to take the colors that you will use in the room's design.
Mirroring the Painting's Theme
Selecting some of the pieces from your painting to place in your room design is another way to include your inspiration painting into your living room's design. A bright painting denoting beach umbrellas lined up on the water's edge may be just enough to inspire seashell and driftwood accents into your living room. If you extract your color palette and your theme from your inspiration painting, they will match amazingly well giving your living room's design a very polished, designer look. By selecting all of your colors from your inspiration picture, it is effortless to see how your finished room will look. You never have to limit your inspiration to the hues in the painting, because you can duplicate design and plants too. If your beach painting has a palm tree featured in it, you may like to include a wide leaf fern or small palm in your living room furnishings.
Making a Focal Point
After pulling your colors and theme from the inspiration artwork, it makes a natural focal point for the room. When you have a bigger painting, it can serve as the focal point for your living room design. If your inspiration painting is not very large, you can display it in concert with other artwork to create an alluring focal display. For example, if your inspiration painting is a beach scene, you may choose to make your focal point as a floating shelf holding the decor along with other beach items like seashells and a glass bowl filled with a sand display.