How to Dress Up a Bare Wall

I can only imagine that staring at a blank wall will make you go bananas. Empty wall space in a room gives the room a cold and non lived in feeling. I know it does create the room to look larger by deception of the mind and eye, but reality is you are tired of looking at the empty space and you need some good ideas on how to make it stand out pop. I have some great ideas for you!

Decorating Idea #1:
If you love candles then this idea is so perfect for you. If the wall you are wanting to decorate is in a room that is a little bit on the smaller side then you may need to make this room more intimate and you can create a romantic feel by decorating that bare wall with candles. Now, before I continue this is not an idea for anyone who has kids because we all know kids love to get their hands on "EVERYTHING" and we surely do not want any emergency room trips happening.

You can start with placing candle wall sconces in lines along the mid line of your wall. Make it a boarder around the whole room. Keep the sconces at eye level and reachable for you so you can light the candles. If you are not found of lighting candles then by the batter operated candles so you can leave them burning and not worry if you forget to blow one out. If you do not like the feel of candle wall sconces then you could use oil lamps that are mountable onto a wall. If you do go with oil lamps then use less because these tend to be bigger. Space the oil lamps out a little further then you would the sconces. Now, if you are really still not wanting the oil lamps or even the candle sconces then place short shelves on the wall, in a diagonal pattern and shelves matching the furniture in your room and then place light-able candles on the shelves.

Decorating Idea #2
Bare wall equals no color. If you want to dress up that naked wall but you do not want to hang anything and put holes in your wall, then painting that bare wall may be the best idea for you. Take what you have in the room you are working with and pick out two great colors that would work with the rest of the items in the room. Purchase the paint and if you are picking just two colors (make sure these colors work together) and paint the top half of the room one color and the bottom half the other color. At the seam where the two colors meet you can add border to cover up the connecting colors. The boarder can be anything from a chair rail to a wallpaper boarder that draws in both colors.

Now you may pick out three colors and do something really interesting. Do vertical lines on the wall. With this idea you will have to pick on dominate color and two other colors that are a lighter version of the dominate color. For example if you pick black then you will want the other two colors to be gray and then off white. Take the black color and start with a horizontal line that is about a foot wide and paint it from top of the wall to the bottom. Then the next line will be gray and about 7 inches wide. Then the last line will be 4 inches wide and white. Continue this patter across the whole wall.

Decorating Idea #3
OK, you really like the painting idea; however you are not interested in clean cut lines and to be honest with you not everyone is into that clean and simple line pattern. Your idea is a little bit more creative. Take one base paint that is going to stand out in the room, but match your other colors in your room as well. Paint the whole wall that base color. Next take a secondary color that is about 3 shades lighter then the base color and a sponge and sponge the walls in a circular pattern to create texture. You do not need to cover all the the base color because leaving some of the darker base color shine through really makes the wall pop out!

Decorating Idea #4
Pictures are always a safe bet when it comes to dressing up a bare wall, but you are tired of the same old way pictures are being hung on the wall. I have created this one time in the apartment my family use to live in. I took about 15 different family pictures I absolutely loved and had them done in black and white and enlarged to 5x7's. I then placed them in three different rows of 5 pictures in each row. However the rows were not lined up perfectly. They started off in a diagonal pattern but the rows lined up straight. I hung them about a foot apart from one another as well. Then I took the same pictures and had them made into 3 1/2 x5 but left them in color and then hung them diagonal to the original print. I always used plain black frames as well. The cheaper ones as well, and just scuffed up the corners of the black wood frames with a piece of sand paper to give it the rustic look.

Decorating Idea #5
If you have kids then this idea is the best one out there around. With this idea you will never get made again for writing on the wall! Paint the bare wall a chalk board green. The best color for you to pick would be a John Deere green. Paint the whole wall. Now grab some white paint and allow your children to make their hand prints all over the walls. Maybe 5 or 6 hand prints per kid. We really do not want to cover up the whole wall, but we want the kids touch added to this wall. Next place a small shelf on one side of the wall with baskets filled with white and different colored chalk. Now allow the kids to write all over the walls or even draw pictures. Take a warm, wet rag to clear their writing and start all over again. This gives your children the chance to write on your wall without getting in trouble and it also allows them to be the artist of the room as well!