Taking High Fashion to Your Walls with Canvas Prints and Wallpaper

The human brain and eye are restless. We see something fresh and new and we get excited by it, but that excitement slowly fades to appreciation and then boredom. That’s why we’re often energised when visitors walk into our bathrooms and kitchens: We see things through their eyes and see everything fresh. We can see again how daring our choices were, how unique our lines are.

That doesn’t stop us from constantly craving a new look, though – if anything it simply sets the bar higher, because we want those same people to be just as excited when they visit next time – or more excited. So we turn to a fresh coat of paint, some gorgeous and unusual canvas prints, and some amazing furniture to give us that design ‘fix’ we crave.

The best design thrills are when we combine two distinct things into something no one’s seen before. If you want ideas, look to the fashion world – then bring those ideas to your walls.

Prints on Prints

If you ever watch fashion-based reality television, you know that one of the fastest ways to get a gasp out of people is to choose a super wicked print for your fashion designs. Prints often straddle the line between good taste and shock value, and while they are almost always visually striking, they can go wrong so, so easily.

That’s why relying on established fashion designers to choose your prints for your interior design inspiration is a fantastic idea. For example, check out Geoffrey J. Finch’s collection for Antipodium. His playful use of ‘emoticons’ in his print could have been a disaster, but instead is fresh and cool and beautiful.

If a print matches your colour palette, take it right from the dress and put it on your walls! You’re using the best print ideas from the fashion world, so your chances of going wrong are slim, after all.

Wallpaper or Canvas Prints

Of course, not every print is equal. The Finch dress linked above is a subtle, low-key print that will work very well as wallpaper – having a feature wall done in this print will be light, playful, and a lot of fun, upping the glamour ante in any room. But other prints can be a little too heavy and busy for an entire wall – blowing them up to wallpaper size will just make the room feel crazy.

In those cases, scaling down to custom canvas prints is the answer. Painting the walls in a complementary colour and using the prints to pop out the pattern from the wall gets that high-fashion drama into your space without overwhelming you with lines and patterns.

The fashion world is constantly generating amazing ideas. While taking those ideas and making your own dresses for sale would be wrong, using some of their print concepts for your walls is just importing glamour into your home.

If you like this idea and you have a print in mind for your own walls, click here and we’d be more than happy to turn it into awesome wall art you’ll be excited to show off.