You can easily get lost in this ocean, so experts do not recommend at random to go to stores to buy wallpaper. Charm from the vending sample will quickly dissipate and the purchase may prove unsuccessful. Before you go to shops, you need to think about the future interior and clearly enough imagine what wallpapers are needed and what they will solve the problem.
How to choose the right wallpaper?
In the decor of the wallpaper, the texture, color and pattern are highlighted. Designers reduce all variants of drawings to 5 groups - these are "flowers, spotted backgrounds, red spots, stripes and wallpaper without a pattern or smooth backgrounds.
Flowers
They call professionals recognizable objects and figures. And then it does not matter what is depicted on the wallpaper - the Egyptian pyramids, gallant cowgirls, eiffel towers, flowers. They can be vague or contrasting, rare or frequent, small or large.
The first rule
Large and frequent "flowers" thicken and reduce space, but small and rare - expand and discharge. A fine "floral" wallpaper pattern acts as a neutral, unobtrusive background and is used in different styles. The same can be said about the contrast of the picture. Vague, low-key figures will look neutral. A clear "flowers" immediately attract attention.
Strips
They became widespread, they successfully combine with almost any style, except for such styles as art deco, baroque.
The second rule
Vertical bands, as it were, increase the height of the ceiling, but the total volume of the room is reduced. The smaller the bands, the smaller the effect of squeezing space. And if the room has low ceilings, and the room is close, it is better to use wallpaper with a large strip.
It will be better if the borders of the bands are not very contrasting or vague. These strips "lift" the ceiling and will not affect the size of the room. And alternating color strips will "bring the walls closer to each other" and participate in the "lifting" of the ceiling.
Large spots
The variant of wallpaper patterns will be large spots, or drawings that mimic animal skins. It is undesirable to glue the entire room with such an "aggressive" pattern, such decors are successfully used to highlight a certain part, you can paste a separate sector of the wall or one wall. Large spots, like large "flowers" visually narrow space.
Third rule
Large diffuse spots have a bright decorative effect. They create, as it were, a sense of play of shadow and light. But do not glue the "big stain" of your entire room and put an experiment on your nerves.
Spotted backgrounds
They are small blended stains or two or more shades and resemble splashes from a spray gun. This decor appeared in the 20th century and can be used on any wall.
The fourth rule
Small droplets-specks conceal large flaws of the surface and perfectly mask them. Light rays scatter in different directions. Solid wallpaper is glued to very even walls or all defects and bumps are visible. In this case, drawbacks will help to hide the relief and dense texture of the wallpaper.
Solid wallpaper
They are the background, it creates the necessary depth of perception and emphasizes the interior. In this case, monophonic wallpaper does not seem faceless and boring. They only better emphasize floral arrangements, the beauty of figurines, sculptural forms of furniture and elegant outlines.
The fifth rule
If you plan to decorate the walls, you are going to decorate the rooms with wall installations or decorative panels, hang photos, paintings, then it is better to choose plain wallpaper. It does not matter what the design style is. Of course, for classical interiors, it's better to choose a wallpaper of pastel tones, then the texture - elegant monograms, characteristic embossing - will do. It is important that wallpaper with decorative forms do not conflict with surrounding objects.