Creating Dynamic Moods with Canvas Art Prints

When we design the look of a room, whether it’s a casual living space, a productive home office, or a formal dining room, what we’re really doing is creating a mood. Color, texture, lines, art, and shapes all combine into a powerful psychological image of what the room will be used for, and that’s why the best designers make a good living creating rooms – because they understand how all of these things work together and affect each other.

That doesn’t mean that every room in your home has to have a defined and hard-coded mood. And it doesn’t mean that changing the feel of your room requires that you haul out all the furniture and start from scratch. In fact, one of the best secrets of high-end interior designers is the way a room’s mood can change just by changing the canvas art prints or other wall decorations.

Setting the Mood with Canvas Art Prints

Art is one of the most powerful components of any room’s design. It can be a subtle effect that pulls in the color palette of the room and ties it all together in an unobtrusive and almost unnoticed way.

Or the art on the walls can be almost at odds with the color palette and other design elements, a speck of contrast in an otherwise harmonious design that accentuates color and pattern by deviating from the plan. The eye gets used to seeing certain motifs in the design and then suddenly happens on this contrasting element, and that moment of surprise can often make a design sing.

the Art of Changing the Mood

Knowing that the art on your walls has such an effect on the overall perception of the room means you can use this to change that mood at any time. All it takes is a little planning. Using a neutral color palette in the room that straddles the warm and cold ends of the spectrum means that you can warm up or cool down a room simply by using wall paintings that dip into those spectrum’s. This gives you an ‘all season’ room that can be warm in the colder weather and cool in the summer months.

Another way to change a room’s mood using art prints is with the subject of the art itself. A room dominated by a huge wedding portrait or formal family portrait will always feel more formal and less relaxed than a room with a fun, wacky piece of abstract art. Similarly, a room that lacks a defined purpose in the home can gain some identity with the simple addition of canvas art that signals its purpose – for example, art that centers on sewing iconography for a craft room, or images of toys and playing children for a kid’s play room. This also means that you can play the long game – for example, a baby’s room that transforms into a play room and then into a study over the course of decades – all without a costly renovation simply by adjusting the art.

Interior design is an art form, and thus has many subtitles and secrets it takes years to master. Changing the mood of a room by changing what’s on the walls is one such secret, and it’s a powerful one. Next time you’re renovating a room, play the long game and choose your art carefully. And when you’ve got the perfect plan, click here and we’ll deliver the highest-quality canvas art prints for your design.