How To Use Art Prints To Decorate Your Apartment Or Dorm
If you are trying to make your apartment or college dorm feel like home
, one of the best ways to do so is to use beautiful artwork which represents who you are, and what brings you joy and comfort. If you're thinking about breaking the bank for the sake of a beautiful room, think again.
You don't have to spend as much as an oil tycoon to have a home every bit as beautiful. A pair of human eyes can only take in so much, no matter how much is put before them.
The secret is not to aim for beauty that comes from opulence, but for a simple beauty. And simple beauty is usually less expensive.
The best way to go for simple beauty in interior design is to make the focus of a room a single well-chosen decorative element. Unless you happen to get really, really lucky at a crafts fair or estate sale, there's only one sure way to buy high taste on a low budget.
Not original paintings or expensive wallpaper. Just a well-chosen print of a painting or photograph that reflects your style and taste and matches your room.
Art prints are not posters. Posters are made using paper stock similar to what magazines use.
Art prints are made using special heavier print stock especially for prints. Posters often play rather loose with the original image, cropping it, resizing it, adding text, or even changing shading.
Prints will typically come much closer to the original, and will rarely crop the original image or alter its appearance significantly. Posters are vastly less durable than art prints.
You can expect a high-quality print to last decades without showing signs of age. Reproductions of a work of art, usually a painting, involve using exactly or nearly exactly the same brush strokes and materials, which is why they are so expensive.
Prints, meanwhile, reproduce the look of the artwork without reproducing every detail of it. For instance, even though many prints of paintings use textured surfaces or even artificial brush strokes, the exact brush strokes of the original are not copied.
Reproductions also have to be conserved as carefully as original paintings in most cases, or they will fade. High-quality prints are given protection against fading, either in the form of a coating to the surface, or a Plexiglas case.
Reproductions, being paintings, are not very durable, and must be treated with special care. Prints, though not indestructible, are more likely to survive accidents.
Some prints can even be washed with glass cleaner. Of course, no art print will be a good anchor for a room's decor if it's not well chosen.
Unfortunately, many people either don't have any particular tastes when it comes to art or decor, or else do not trust their own taste. Luckily, the internet puts the accumulated knowledge of thousands of decorators, artists, and art experts at your disposal.
Thanks to the internet, your home can look as good as the ones on TV. Turning your dorm room into a home away from home is a special challenge since space can be a problem.
But art can dress up any room and give you the chance to really express your personality. The traditional dorm room wall has consisted mostly of posters, but what do you do if you want to create a more mature look?
Or what if you have so little wall space that there isn't room for something as large as a poster? There are several solutions to these problems for the student who wants to decorate in style.
If you like the idea of posters but want something more than sports and rock stars, how about a poster of your favorite movie? You can choose from the promotional poster or a still of your favorite scene.
These are a trend with both young and old alike, and some interior designers are even including them in their designs. Vintage advertisement posters can be a unique and fun way to express yourself.
An ad for an old product or film can be a funny conversation piece, and retro chic especially from the 1940's and 1950's is a strong trend. With these simple additions, your small space can feel more like home.
by: Tom Selwick
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