Architect Magazine: The market for interior finishes is filled with products meant to blend quietly into a space. But what does a designer specify for projects needing a bolder expression? This selection of wallcoverings provides a punch of pattern and color with the flexibility to be swapped out as tastes—or tenants—change.
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These wall papers are great and creative for personalizing different room spaces. With the different types of colors and patterns, these wall papers are perfect for brighting up any room. And with the amount going on with these wall paper ideas, accent pieces of furniture and comforts will be 10x easier to incorporate into the room. I know sometimes with a plain wall with one color it can be hard to pick specific accents decor for the room. But these fantastical wall ideas seem to be great for those who want to spice up their room with metallic, tribal, or personalized wall papers.
I honestly didn't know that wall paper was still a thing in design, but these are so cool! These bring a new age and modern turn to old fashioned, ugly wall paper. It is a very simple and easy way to add detail and design to a room.
Some of these wallpapers/ wall designs are very intriguing. Whether or not, I would put some of them in my home is a different story, but I think they can be respected as a piece of design art. I think a lot of these wallpapers would work really well as an accent wall, especially the illusion wall. For some reason, I also think that these designs would work well in a business office to lighten the mood and increase creativity. I think perhaps some of the designs may be a bit much for the common eye because of the color pattern and the way your eye moves throughout the design. I would love to see one of these in person.
Even though I see wall decals all the time, I don't actually know anyone who has these hanging in their house. They remind me of those holiday window decals that kids put up in their house. Wall decals also have a tendency not to stay adhered to a surface for a long period of time, eventually they begin to peel or bubble up. They can also be challenging to apply to a surface for people who don't typically do this kind of stuff. Definitely fun and adds an other dimension to a wall.
Im slightly in love with the great hall by Dan Funderburgh for Flavor Paper. Its a beautiful stark contrast that incredibly elegantly reflects onto the hardwood floor. Designs that change the entire room rather then are a singular characteristic I think are absolutely beautiful. The gradient wall paper I can see being used a previously distinct white room such that changes the existing space. Not to mention it can allow for such a range of colors to be used with the furniture and other amenities in the room. The great hall design almost seems like it puts a limitation on what can be used in the room with it but how well it complements that hardwood floor is pretty impressive to my eye. But if you look at the hypnotist, it looks like it sets a constraint on color for anything that is going to be place in this room
The designs in the article seemed to me to be better for a comforter spread or a large poster. I loved all the designs, yet I feel that too much color and busyness on a wall can crowd a room and make it feel less welcoming than intended. Perhaps I'm old fashioned; I like rooms when they have a solid (if neutralized) base coat of paint on the walls, with accents from the bed/kitchen/living room dressing to liven up the space. The wall decals would probably be difficult to light, because who knows how they'll receive light. It's especially difficult to make rooms look welcoming if they're too dark and enclosed within on themselves. The idea in the article seems nice, but I don't think I would choose it for myself.
Although I absolutely adore all of these designs, I'm not sure I would actually want them inside my home. The exception would be the gradient geometric pattern, which I could see being put on one wall of a living room. They are very loud wallpaper, so it could potentially be hard to have a cohesive room unlike traditional wallpaper or solid colors. I still love the idea, though.
This is, for lack of a better word, rad. The designs are unique and modern, and will great implications. Rather than painting an intricate design on a set, in this modern age, a designer could create their wallpaper pattern online, and then have it printed for ease of application. I see this being very useful in theatrical situation wherein time is too crunched to otherwise fulfill a designers vision on a wall. Very cool. I want some in my house.
I wasn't sure quite what to think about these, but I think that Nikki's comment is prefect. These look like patterns that would work better on a comforter than on a wall. Now, I don't mean to say that I don't like these patterns, because I do. I think that some of these look really cool, and I think it would be awesome to somehow find a way to incorporate them into a room. That being said, I think that creates a very difficult design challenge, due to the fact that these patterns are very busy and loud. I think that the Rorschach one would be very difficult to incorporate into a room, and even a poster sized version of it would be challenging. I think that the more subtle ones like The Hypnotists have potential to look really good if used well, but I think that the use of any of these can backfire and they can become something of an eyesore.
These are all really cool and fun but I would never use any of them. Maybe in an art gallery displaying interesting wall paper but nothing else! I mean, who wants to get a headache every time they walk into a room!?!? The Gradient wall paper is vey pretty but I don't think I could stand to be in a room with that for more than a couple of minutes. My eyes would start to hurt and everything would start floating (the guitar hero hallucinations!). And the wall paper with all of the Metropolitan museum artifacts, it's too busy that I wouldn't want to spend time to appreciate it. Maybe I'm just an ultra boring person who likes blank walls that you can add stuff to. I do like the 'Trace' on though and would totally put something like that in a picture frame and hang it on one of my blank walls!
I was incredibly bored by this article until I got to the last wallpaper. The hypnotic look of a wall would definitely work as a great accent wall in a room. However, if someone were to cover an entire room with the hypnotic wallpaper, there's not a doubt in my mind that people would just get sick really quickly. I'm sure the same could be said about the other wallpapers, but the last one is definitely on a whole new scale.
There is something to be said about how you design the interior of your home. I worked at an interior design firm this summer and I was mystified, sometimes appalled, and intrigued about what some people would choose to put in their homes. I personally would never put any of these wallpapers in a home that I owned, because these type of bold visuals, I feel, command too much of the attention in the room. I enjoy interior spaces in which my eye and interest is drawn to a specific object or entity that stands out in the room but does not over-command it.
These are some fun alternatives to paint or regular wallpaper. I really like the one by Trove. I think it's simple, yet beautiful and will add something to room rather than distracting from the rest of it. I was not a fan of the Rorschach or Hypnotist wallpapers. They were extremely overwhelming and not pleasing to look at. Imagining these taking the whole wall makes me squirm. It does not appeal to me to have what is essentially an optical illusion plastered on my walls. The Rorschach paper was slightly less obnoxious, but some of the patterns were still to overwhelming for my taste.
When I first saw the title of this article, I thought that they were going to talk about alternatives to wallpaper, as opposed to more vivid types. A few summers ago, I volunteered at a land trust that was experimenting with new ways of covering and insulation wall, to aid in being more eco friendly. They ended up creating this cool texture with paint, plaster and the hay they had used to insulate the walls. In regards to these wall papers, I thought they were all really nice. More often then not people chose patterns that blend into the background of their home, but I like the idea of having a striking wall and then designing around it.
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