There are many things you can do with your walls to make your home unique, stylish, and comfortable. One of the most popular options nowadays, for both households and stylish business places, is wallpaper. It is a favourite when it comes to design as it can be easily used to bring in style and dimension, add texture and colour to your space. This is partly due to the incredible diversity of wallpaper, its designs and materials.
Whether you are looking to spruce up your living room or you want something fun for your kids’ room, wallpaper offers endless options for decoration. An absolute trend in the last years, contemporary geometric design wallpapers can be a great choice for any room you want to decorate.
Shapes for Dimension
If what you are looking for is to create a striking impression in your home, striking geometric shapes are a great option. With minimalism being one of the key characteristics in many of the interior design styles, from the unique Scandi to the edgy industrial style, big, bold geometric designs are a perfect way to create balance and harmony in any space.
Whether you are decorating your living room, your bedroom, your office, or any other space, a well-chosen eye-catching geometric wallpaper can be the missing piece to your design puzzle. A striking geometric shapes wallpaper has the ability to bring a high level of sophistication and dimension. Featuring an endless variety of combinations of geometrical shapes, including lines, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, etc., geometric wallpapers can be used to add more depth, create a strong impact, evoke a feeling of order, visually enlarge rooms, etc.
Shapes for Effects
Homeowners and interior designers, use geometric shapes, whether they are regular or something more abstract, to create a wide variety of effects. You can use them to create a bold statement or to give your room some elegance. You can use a more impactful one on one wall, something calmer in the entire room or you can use it to create a repeating theme.
While it may seem counter-intuitive, shapes can be great in smaller spaces. Most people think that solid colours are the only way to go in a small room, but patterns really have the ability to make them appear more spacious. Patterns with big shapes, for instance, are a great option for small rooms.
Shapes for Balance
For rooms with calmer, minimalistic décor, with neutral colours, monochromatic shades, or black and white furniture and decorations, you can choose wallpapers that feature louder, bold geometric shapes, with darker or vibrant colours to create a striking contemporary vibe. You can create a feature wall, and use your wallpaper to add more colour and texture, or you can cover smaller surfaces, like the back of bookshelves or other pieces of furniture.
For rooms with more colour and brighter hues, these types of wallpapers can be overwhelming and make the space feel cluttered. Instead, you should go for a geometric pattern wallpaper that pops less, in one accentuated colour or in neutral colours, to tone down space. If, on the other hand, you want to use tone-on-tone layering, or in other words varying tints of the same colour, geometric wallpapers can be an ideal choice. You can use them to mix patterns, always keeping harmony in mind.
Shapes for Accent
With such a big variety of shapes, colours, patterns etc., geometric wall coverings are one of the best options for creating an accent wall. With so many options, you can find art-like designs, that can make any room feel unique and luxurious. Furthermore, you can use them to create feature walls behind the sofa in your living room, the bed in your bedroom, the dining table in your dining room etc.
Decorating with this type of wallpaper can be difficult for homeowners because even though there are so many options that look beautiful if you don’t choose well geometric shapes and patterns can make your room seem odd and can look out of place. If you aren’t too confident in your interior design abilities, try to visualise as best as possible. Get samples, or open a photo of the design you like on your phone or your laptop, so you can visualise better.
Shapes for Creativity
If you are more courageous, you can experiment and play with patterns and colours. Use the opportunities that geometric wallpaper designs offer to show off your personality and maybe come out with something more surprising and unique. Nevertheless, if you have a lot of patterns on other elements in the room, choose a wallpaper design that’s more toned down. If your room is minimalistic, both in the number of elements, and in colours, find a wallpaper that will stand out, and add more colour, texture, dimension.
The simplest way to think about it is in terms of balance – combine big with small (big patterns in small rooms, colourful wallpaper in toned down rooms…) Alternatively, if you want geometric shapes, but you are afraid to make a mistake, you can start smaller. Cover a smaller wall, a part of a wall, a column, a piece of furniture, or put a piece of it in a frame and hang it as an art piece. This can help you get bolder and try something more impressive.
