A room is more than the sum of its four walls. Colours, textures and carefully chosen accents influence how spacious, cosy or harmonious a living space is perceived to be. The great thing is that it’s often just small design changes or clever creative touches that create a completely new atmosphere and noticeably enhance your sense of well-being.
The walls provide the ideal foundation for this – along with ideas and products from Erfurt. After all, the wall expert not only offers a wide selection of paintable wallpapers but also provides plenty of inspiration. For example, the latest creative idea demonstrates how delicate lines, geometric shapes and artistic freedom can be used to create an expressive wall-to-ceiling design that redefines the room and is staged like a free-floating work of art.
This creates a modern accent that catches the eye without overwhelming the room. But wall design can do even more. By combining the right colour with the right painting technique, you can deliberately steer the overall effect of the room. As a general rule, light shades help small rooms feel more spacious, whilst darker shades lend a sense of cosiness to large living areas. Even low ceilings can be made to appear taller using light colours and contrasting stripes in the same colour at the top of the walls. Narrow corridors appear more spacious with a darker end wall, whilst wide rooms appear more harmonious with a light-coloured end wall.
However, the choice of wallpaper is also crucial to the final result: the distinctive texture of woodchip wallpaper, for example, lends the paintwork extra depth, plays with light and shadow, and, on top of that, conceals any unevenness on the wall. Smooth non-woven wallpapers, on the other hand, create a smooth, uniform surface on which colours and accents are shown off to their best advantage. And embossed non-woven wallpapers help to emphasise certain effects.
It becomes particularly exciting when different wallpaper textures are combined. For instance, a coloured accent wall with a textured surface becomes an eye-catcher, whilst subtle smooth non-woven wallpapers on the remaining walls create a sense of visual calm. Best of all: all Erfurt wallpapers can be repainted multiple times, allowing your wall design to be flexibly adapted to changing life circumstances or interior styles over the years. Full details and creative ideas with step-by-step instructions are available at www.erfurt.com.
