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Spatial effect - wallpaper changes rooms

The whole room can be changed by a wall design. You can choose your own patterns and colors according to your taste. Colors and a wide variety of patterns are currently in vogue. But with such a large selection, the choice is rarely easy. If you take a close look at your apartment, you can not only beautify your room with patterns and colors, but also influence unfavorable floor plans, room heights and lighting conditions.

In this way, it is possible to use wallpaper and colors to make your rooms homely but also to change them visually. Our perception of space goes back a long way into the past and is still influenced and determined by people's earlier experience of nature. The sky above us is bright and the ground beneath our feet is dark. If a room is rather large and flooded with light, we feel insecure, lost but also free. In dark rooms, on the other hand, we feel cramped, but also sheltered and protected. The order in which we perceive the room also corresponds to our basic instinct: First we look at the floor to test whether it is stable. Then we look around and perceive the entire environment, seek eye contact and gather information.

As soon as orientation becomes "boring", only then does the ceiling come into our field of vision. The room design influences this visual sequence: floor-wall-ceiling. For example, if there is a wall with strong wall colors or unusual patterns, you first pay attention to the wall instead of the floor. In addition to controlling your gaze and movement, you can also influence the overall impression. For example, you can easily cover up architectural inconsistencies and small defects.

Ceiling and floor

A dark floor creates a foundation that gives the room stability and security. If the walls are light, the room appears spacious and wide. If the floor and walls are darker than the ceiling, the room appears to be higher, which is called the "nest effect". A dark ceiling acts like a protective roof and makes high rooms appear lower. If the ceiling color appears again on furniture, for example, it creates a balance and the ceiling appears less solitary.

Patterns

Patterns are of fundamental importance in many cultures and religions. Geometric patterns are popular and with representational motifs the image message is in the foreground. Patterns can change the room significantly: Large patterns in dark tones reduce the wall area and shift the proportions. Small patterns, on the other hand, have the exact opposite effect, they visually expand the room. Other types of patterns include: static, abstract, organic, floral, ornamental and random.

Accent wall

A wall that is accentuated in dark colors visually shortens the room. The accent wall visually pushes the eye towards the middle of the room, contrasting colors look extremely striking in front of such a wall. If the accent wall and floor are designed similarly, a visual connection is created that may shorten the room, but makes it appear cozy.

Stripes

Vertical stripes narrow the room and make it appear higher. Horizontal stripes have the opposite effect: the room appears lower and wider. You can achieve calm and spaciousness with a subtle, horizontal emphasis in the lower third of the wall surface.