If you are looking to decorate a large wall that leads to the stairs, the blank space above your sofa, or the empty wall in the bedroom this simple guide will help you make the best decision when selecting your Artico Déco wall art.
Collections
Our team of artists have enthusiastically explored motifs and inspirations based on the philosophy of bringing “Easy Living” wall art that contributes to happiness and harmony in personal spaces.
Collections
Scenery
Human nature looks for references that make us feel pleasure. The most powerful are those inspired by horizons within the landscape. We have a great selection among our best-selling wall art, they will bring poetic and contemplative sensations.
Abstract
It is within this collection of abstract expressionism that the Artico Déco team seeks a style that can define us. The mixture of lines, colors and shapes provides the right balance between order and spontaneity, creating bold wall art for restless spirits.
Atmosphere
The atmospheric art style in Artico Déco is inspired by subtle and ethereal tones that seek to create compositions of intermingled colors that provoke reflective environments.
Minimal
In interior design, many times less is more! This is one of the most adaptable styles with colors and shapes that can bring balance between color schemes. The layer’s colors and transparencies are the key to creating a simple yet complex wall art.
Impasto
The most intuitive and primary part in art is produced through tactile sensation. Our team create pieces with a sensual approach through textures, pigment colors and visual weight, these can provide strength sensations within the interior design.
Geometric
Often times we seek to provoke a sense of order and composition. Artico Déco explores the combination of geometric arrangements which are superimposed on more expressive backgrounds. These two elements merge to provide personality and structure.
At Artico Déco, we seek to help you create easy, warm and elegant spaces
Spaces
A wall art not only serves to fill an empty space, but as an element of visual strength, that represents a part of the expression of your personality, your tastes and what attracts your attention.
The conception of space is a window to the identity and creativity of people.
Spaces
Office Workspaces
Whether a personal office, a clinic waiting room, a client lobby backdrop, or a corporate meeting room, a large piece of wall art provides a comfortable and sophisticated atmosphere which adds a professional touch to public spaces.
Dining
room
The dining room is ideal for designing with a bold spirit. A medium or large wall art that stretches across the table, with pops of bright color and direct lighting, can be a great conversation starter.
Living room
The area above the sofa is excellent for hanging a unique wall art or mural arrangement of varied media. This wall piece can add a touch of color and texture that defines the harmony of the rest of the decoration.
Work spaces
Our home has now also become our workspace. Wall art can add that accent of personality in the areas that are visible. The large formats of landscapes or environments with colors typical of nature give a striking and formal touch at the same time.
Bedrooms
The bedroom is the personal sanctuary where you will seek to have an emotional connection with your selection of wall art. Being a space dedicated to relaxation and rest, wall art should not be too overwhelming in design or colors. Landscapes and soft abstracts are excellent in these rooms.
Kitchen
Practical considerations are key in the kitchen. Avoid any type of art framed in glass that can become greasy. Pairing hard surfaces like stainless steel kitchen and tile with a piece of handcrafted wall art creates just the right amount of visual tension. Medium or small pieces with neutral colors and abstract painting can complement the overall palette of the kitchen.
Bathrooms
One of the most frequently forgotten utilitarian places when thinking about decorative art is the bathroom. Wall art with calming qualities is the key here. In general, relaxing tones and motifs are ideal.
Whether in the bathroom or the social area, you can be a little more extravagant. Guests love to be curious about the artwork in the bathrooms. Find unique pieces that reflect your personal style. Typically, a 24-inch piece of art fits nicely over a toilet space and balances out a wall where you have a vanity and toilet on the same wall.
Color is a power which directly influences the soul
Wassily Kandisnsky
Colors
Choosing colors for your wall art is easy when you follow a few rules of interior design. These proven guides will help you find the best color combinations to complete your home décor
Colors
The Rule
60-30-10
Perhaps the most widely used interior design rule is to divide the use of color into percentages:
60
The main color should represent 60% of the total color used in the decoration of your space. It does not necessarily mean using a single solid color, but rather that the combination of its tones results in a dominant color. Artico Déco oversized wall art can set that dominant color tone your room needs.
30
The secondary color should make up 30% of the color scheme of your décor. With only half the amount of saturation the primary color should contrast or harmonize with the primary color. Choosing a non-adjacent color helps us create depth and interest in the decoration of the space. We offer you a great selection of large and medium wall art that help complete your personal color scheme.
10
The next color will be one third of the secondary color and one sixth of the main color. This accent color is meant to add interest and contrast to your color scheme. It should be used throughout the decor to draw the eye deeper into the design of the room. Our small pieces can help you complement your space with. that touch of contrasts that capture your attention.
The Color Wheel
Choosing a color scheme can be intimidating. But there is a sure-fire way to create a color palette that’s not only easy on the eyes but makes you want to live in it. The secret is a powerful decorating tool called “The Color Wheel”, it is a great tool to creating winning color combinations if you know how to use it.
Black, White and Grays
Commonly confused as colors, the achromatic scale from White to Black is properly called “Values of Lightness”. The use of gray scales is the perfect complement in color schemes to harmonize and provide a visual break with the rest of the colors. In Artico Déco Collections, most of the pieces are created using a dominant grayscale palette that are complemented by shades of color which bring elegance and versatility to our creations.
Gold, Silver, Bronze and Copper
Metallic colors are always adventurous, it is convenient to start little by little to integrate them within accents in our decoration. A few touches of metallic shine can create a feeling of abundance and elegance; but excess can be somewhat pretentious. These colors go very well with spaces where dark tones predominate and with little competition from visual elements.
Color Schemes
Cool
Neutrals
Warm
neutrals
Color Schemes
Before you start to work in your color scheme, keep in mind that blues, greens, and purples tend to be cooler and give a more relaxing vibe while oranges, yellows, browns, and reds are warmer and more emotional. It’s important to know what kind of feel you want in your room before choosing a color palette.
Monochrome
You don’t have to decorate with a mixture of colors. In fact, going monochrome with tones on tones of one color can result in a really sophisticated look.
Start by selecting a color that you really love and can relate to (thinking about which color you wear the most in your wardrobe is a good starting point), then have fun mixing different shades, from light to dark, or you can keep it classic by sticking to one tone. Everything is fair game, from the walls to the upholstery and accessories.
A well-balanced room usually has warm and cool tones, but not necessarily in equal amounts. So if you have a cool-toned monochromatic color scheme, warm it up a bit with a natural-fiber rug, wood furniture, and black brass or oil-rubbed bronze finishes. Anchor a warm palette with white walls and neutral upholstery.
Analog
If you like the simplicity of the monochrome scheme, but want to create more interest, the analogous color scheme is for you. It’s a sure-fire way to create a successful color scheme with soft contrast. It’s as simple as matching two or three colors that are next to each other on the wheel.
The best way to create a cohesive look is to follow the 60-30-10 rule. To create a more relaxing atmosphere in a space, such as a bedroom, choose neutral or cool tones. For a more energetic feel, go for more saturated or warmer tones. Even adding just one element, like wall art or an upholstered chair, with that third color adds excitement to the space.
Complementary
Opposites attract. The choice of two complementary colors creates an energizing, high-contrast color scheme. It’s a pretty simple concept: pairing two colors from opposite sides of the color wheel, like purple with yellow, blue with orange, or red with green with their shade variants.
Obviously, you’ll want to look beyond the primary colors to create that winning combination with the right hues. When using two contrasting bright colors, we like to favor one color over the other, or use both to accent against a neutral background with a good dose of white and lots of natural light!
Triad
Are you feeling daring? A triad is made up of three colors spaced evenly on the wheel. This color scheme creates a vivid yet balanced contrast, so it feels slightly less intense than a complementary color scheme. Look for combinations that are pleasing to the eye and let one color dominate and accentuate the other two.
If you really want to go further, use saturated versions of all three colors. Although you can also adopt shades of colors that incorporate many neutral colors.
Split Complementary
This latest proposal for the use of three colors is a variant of the complementary scheme. It is formed by selecting a dominant color on the wheel along with the two adjacent to its complementary color. If a complementary color scheme gives us high and energetic contrasts, the complementary split scheme is generally more conservative and balanced.
When we think of wall art, size does matter!
Sizes
A Artico Déco wall art can be the definitive decoration that your room was missing, however, if the size is not correct or it is in the wrong position, something feels wrong. A very small piece of art on a large wall can seem incomplete and a very large piece in small wall gives us a feeling of being overwhelmed.
Sizes
How to read the space
Most of the time, bigger is better. A common mistake buyers make is choosing artwork that is too small for their walls. To make sure your masterpiece fits perfectly into your space, we’ve put together this simple guide to help you choose the right size paint for your space.
We know, rules are sometimes meant to be broken, but when it comes to sizing, these 4 simple rules serve as a great tool to get you on the right track and help you improve your decorating skills.
Wall Space
Wall art should occupy 60% – 75% of the available wall space, that is, wall space that is not covered by furniture or trim. Start by measuring the width and height of your wall and then multiply them by 0.60 and 0.75. This will give you the variety of canvas sizes that will fit the space.
For example: If you have a blank wall that is 9 feet tall and 5 feet wide, you would multiply both 9 and 5 by 0.6 and 0.75. The ideal height of the canvas would be between 5.4 to 6.75 and the ideal width would between 3 feet and 3.75 feet.
Furniture
When hanging wall art over furniture, such as a bed, fireplace, dining table, or sofa, it should be 2/3 to 3/4 the width of the furniture. You can do a calculation similar to the one used to calculate the wall space in the previous example. Let’s say your sofa is 6 feet wide, multiply 6 by 0.66 and 0.75. Thus, a piece between 3.6 feet and 4.5 feet wide would fit wonderfully on top of your sofa.
Hanging Heights
A common rule of thumb is to hang wall art at eye level so that its midpoint is between 57 – 60 inches from the floor. If you have a room with ceilings higher than eight feet, artwork can be hung a little higher than 60 inches. Once you choose the right height for your space, stick with it for consistency.
Using a similar rule, the bottom of the wall art should hang 6 to 12 inches above the surface of the nearest piece of furniture. Even if you want to have the full field of view for the artwork, you can allow a table lamp or flower arrangement to cross your view as long as it doesn’t cause too much visual tension.
Gallery Wall
Remember that it is always possible to make a wall arrangement by mixing various media such as oil paintings, watercolors, collages or photographs that give shape to a gallery of art pieces. Select small formats with different types of frames that are evenly spaced 3 – 6 inches apart on some of their sides. Mixing different sizes is key, but no one piece should stand out.
The art pieces can be grouped as a large square, diamond, or any other organic shape that fits the size of the wall. Trial and error is the most effective way to a successful arrangement. We recommend doing a layout of the pieces on the floor before starting to drive a nail.
In Artico Déco, the sizes are automatically adjusted according to the dimensions of the image, respecting as far as possible the basic proportion and composition. Therefore, if a painting with a vertical orientation is selected, it may be more suitable for a narrower wall, while a horizontal orientation may fit perfectly above the sofa or bed.