Design Strategies for Choosing Cheap Canvas Prints

It’s increasingly common for people to approach a modest or casual redesign of their home on their own without hiring a professional. When you’re not truly renovating – not pulling down walls and running new infrastructure like plumbing – it really does boil down to your visual taste and ability to put things together. Some of us have an innate talent for that, and some of us just know how to please ourselves and don’t care if others think our taste a bit wonky. In either scenario, a DIY approach is perfectly workable.

One aspect of a DIY redesign that often frustrates people is the art on the walls: Budget tells them to go with something affordable, their heart tells them to go for something dramatic. And while it doesn’t take a genius to follow those opposing instincts directly to cheap canvas prints as the ideal of both desires, that’s where many people get stuck: How do even begin to choose art? Art isn’t just colour and shape, it says something about you personally – who you are and who you aspire to be. To avoid being intimidated by this decision, you need a strategy. Here are a few design strategies to get your project moving again.

Follow the Colour

One strategy for choosing cheap canvas prints is to follow the colour you’ve already chosen for the room – or to go the other way around. If you know the palette you’ll be using on the walls and in the fabrics, you can go to a source of images like ours and find images that match up with that palette – or contrast with it – and let your heart make the choice.

Or, reverse that – start off by choosing an image and then choose the room’s colour palette around that. There’s no rule that states you have to leave your wall art choices until last – flip the script and start there instead. In fact, why not choose a famous painting to generate your room’s palette – here’s a great article on that for inspiration – and then use that painting or one in the same palette as your artwork?

Follow the Visuals with Cheap Canvas Prints

Colour is always just one part of the story. The other part of your design is the theme, the images. Sometimes this is very obvious and purposefully front-and-centre – like when you walk into a beach house and everything has a seashell theme. Sometimes it’s so subtle it might as well not exist.

If your theme is front-and-centre, your wall art should be too. Designing a little boy’s room with a space or science fiction theme? Images of spaceships and planets are perfect. Even if your theme is a little more subtle, you can follow the visuals: A room designed to resemble the bed and breakfast you stayed in on your honeymoon can use images of the country or town you were in, famous landmarks you visited, or just allusions to your activities, like beach scenes or mountain vistas – or, of course, your own holiday photos transformed into amazing prints.

Whatever strategy you choose to follow in your DIY design, as long as you include your choice of images in your thinking it will all come together in the end and make a powerful statement. And when you know the images you want to use on your walls, click here and we’ll be delighted to make them for you.