So youre thinking of making some major or minor home improvements, and youve looked around for ideas...something new and different would be nice! Something you dont see in homes very often; something that you love and would enjoy a lot every day!
Perhaps that special something is a wall hanging tapestry. Whether your home decor project is major or minor, a tapestry on your wall will transform your hall, dining, living and bed rooms like nothing else! Thats partly because you dont see many tapestries in the average American home. Most people, when they decide to redecorate, turn to the tried and true. Things like repainting a room, or hanging some new pictures, or adding a new piece of furniture perhaps?
While all that does change your room and sweeten it for a while, a wall tapestry shakes up the whole decor dynamic! Custom tapestry classics instantly make a dramatic statement like no other single decor element. Thats because
tapestries have unique and therefore outstanding ways of integrating any and all room interiors into one complete WOW effect. They stand out and, at the same time, they blend in!
Wall hanging tapestries are outstanding for lots of reasons. For one thing, you dont see them everywhere you go, right? Thats not because theyre out of fashion so much as because theyre out of mind. Except, of course, for those who want to create something really special and different!
Another reason tapestry wall hangings are outstanding is their timeless character in other words, their classic qualities. Classics in any field have a way of enduring because theyre beautiful whenever and wherever they appear. So whether youre redecorating a space thats traditional or contemporary, a classic hand woven tapestry will set the tone and command
the attention in your room like a grand piano!
To get the most impact with a tapestry, its helps to take a few tips from the experts in this case, the tapestry experts at Heirloom European Tapestries. They report that after nearly two decades of working with home owners, they have identified 5 considerations for finding the right tapestry:
Tapestries set the mood in your room, so its important to look at lots of them to see what feels right for you. Do you love the outdoors? Perhaps a classic landscape tapestry with its pastoral setting will bring the outdoors in! Or how about an Italian tapestry or French tapestry for that European Interior look? The possibilities are almost endless when you tap into centuries old European tapestries.
Its important to get the scale right with
large tapestries. To do that easily, think of wall tapestries in terms of wall paper or a wall mural! Unlike most paintings and pictures, a wall tapestry gains its optimum Wow! effect when it covers say, 85% of the available wall space in your room. Generally speaking, when it comes to tapestries, bigger is better!
Tapestries, as we said earlier, tend to dominate any room theyre displayed in. Part of that impact is the way they dictate the primary and secondary colors in your room. So, for instance, if you want a soft cream and blue room, youll do well to find a tapestry with those colors being the most prevalent. Many good designers take the colors from the wall tapestry first to then develop the entire room palate.
Here again, the choice of a horizontal or a vertical shape should be made considering the proportions of the wall hanging space. A vertical design will climb the wall and take the viewers eye with it. Horizontal tapestries tend to keep the focus at eye level.
Quality is often related to cost, but not always! In the world of tapestry wall hangings, youll generally find five kinds of tapestry reproductions:
Good tapestries: High-speed Digital image cotton wall hangings with favorite scenes. They retail usually under $300 or so.
Better tapestries: Jacquard machine woven cotton designs usually from France, Belgium or Italy. Also, Silk Screened or Serigraphic designs can complement your room and your budget with an aged antique look to match older period furnishings.
Best tapestries: Hand woven tapestries woven in 100% wool are woven the same way theyve been made for centuries by hand, one thread at a time. Typically, if theyre not in stock, they will take 3-6 months to weave.
The ultimate tapestries:
Custom tapestries using your specific design theme and colors are the very best investment because theyre unique, one off designs woven by hand, in 100% wool.
The choice is yours, but ultimately, tapestries are always the best way to go when considering home improvements.
Copyright Heirloom European Tapestries April, 2011
