There are many types of wall art decor available on the market. While painted walls have their place in minimalist interiors, they often lack character and fail to create a significant impact. They serve as a backdrop, allowing other elements in the room to shine. If you’re looking to add a personal touch to a small living area and make it feel like home, you may have considered wallpaper. Although wallpaper has a long history, it hasn’t regained its popularity in recent decades.
However, one trend that has made a comeback is the accent wall, which turns a focal point into a captivating feature of the space. While accent walls are typically created using bold colours, an artificial green wall offers the opportunity to make a dramatic statement with texture, depth, and vibrant colours. It allows you to express your artistic creativity and transform your interior in a unique way.
The Rise of 3D Wall Art
In recent years, there has been a surge in innovative approaches to dressing the interior walls of homes, thanks to advancements in materials and manufacturing capabilities. Artificial greenery seamlessly fits into this concept, providing a natural touch to your design while offering the flexibility to create your own artwork. It’s a different medium for “painting” your interior.
Another interesting trend is 3D wall art, where large panels with wave patterns, starbursts, or geometric shapes add dimension and play with highlights and shadows. Various materials such as gypsum, split face wood panels, polyfoam, and bamboo are used to introduce texture. Additionally, PVC wall stickers allow scenes to be added to walls, creating trompe l’oeil effects like a Hawaiian sunset or a forest with sunlight filtering through trees. However, these approaches are limited by the flatness of the wall and lack the ability to change over time.
The Unique Experience of Vistafolia Artificial Green Walls
Vistafolia artificial green walls offer a completely different experience. With their highly realistic representation of named and recognizable plants, they create an unparalleled natural vibe that pictures cannot replicate. Moreover, they function as 3D wall art on their own, with diverse shapes and textures that add depth and constant interest to your design.
Green Wall Art for Small Interiors
There’s a misconception that small interiors should be kept bright to create an illusion of space. The common belief is that light colours, usually white, should be used to push the walls outward. However, experts have challenged this notion. Interior designer Mariella Cruzado dismisses the idea in a recent Elle Décor article, stating that a rich, dark colour on one wall can make the room feel larger by adding depth.
Furthermore, Cornelia de Ruiter, founder of interior design company Homewings, suggests considering the space above eye level. Drawing attention upward and using the full height of the room can create a sense of spaciousness. While a tall lamp can achieve this effect to some extent, covering one wall with Vistafolia artificial plant panels not only directs the eye upward, utilizing the room’s height, but also makes a striking statement without encroaching on the available space.
To illustrate this, imagine the plant-covered wall replaced with more tiles. Suddenly, even in a small space, the plain wall appears stark and overpowering in contrast.
Exploring Different Effects with Artificial Green Wall Panels
Covering an entire wall with interior plants is just one way to create the desired effect. Emphasizing height can be achieved by creating vertical stripes or wide columns alternating Vistafolia panels with simple vertical colour panels. This encourages the eye to look upward and adds visual interest. By reversing this concept, with panels of artificial greenery drawing the eye along the length of a room, you can create a different effect.
In the case of a light well, the simplicity of three Vistafolia green wall panels creates a column that complements the adjacent rectangle of colour, drawing the eye to the interior plants. Without them, the space would likely be overlooked, whereas the presence of the plants invites exploration and creates a sense of more space.
Similarly, large walls in small areas can feel overwhelming and confining. By using Vistafolia panels, you can break up the expanse and make it more proportionate, transforming it into a pleasant oasis that provides a relaxing environment.
Creating Green Wall Art
When space is limited, and minimalistic design is necessary due to furniture and ornament constraints, a plant-covered wall provides natural warmth and texture to balance the simplicity of the surroundings. Vistafolia artificial green wall panels serve as the fundamental building blocks for your design. Each panel measures 80cm x 80cm, and a pack of three covers 1.92m2. These panels can be used individually, framed with stainless steel or blond wood, resembling a natural art installation with texture and visual appeal. Illuminating them with a picture light, possibly with a dimmer, enhances the interplay of shadow and texture based on your mood and the time of day.
In addition to painted panels and frames, artificial green walls can be complemented by water features, just as waterfalls enhance the beauty of lush plants in the natural world. The sound of trickling water complements the calming atmosphere provided by the plant-covered wall, while the wall itself showcases the water feature splendidly.
Creating a Sense of Spaciousness with Green Wall Art
Contrary to common belief, rich colours can be successful in small rooms. Design studio founder Anna Burles explains that adding drama to a small space through strong colours and shapes elevates its appeal from mere prettiness to warmth and satisfaction. Using darker greens in shady rooms can emphasize their depth, as advised by David Mottershead of Little Greene, the paint and paper stockists. The combination of our Vistafolia Plant Wall Panels and Lush Green Texture Box option can help achieve this effect.
Sculpture and Green Wall Art
The variety in leaf shapes, textural changes, and depth created by a plant-covered wall serve as a perfect backdrop for simple outlines and colours. Whether it’s a relief embedded in artificial foliage or a modernist sculpture, the backdrop offers visual interest without overpowering the highlighted piece.
Creating Bespoke Green Wall Art
Vistafolia Panels can be customised by hand using our Colour Box packs, which provide individual plants in various colours like lavender, white, pink, and red. With the versatility of panel arrangements, the possibilities are endless. Vistafolia can help you “paint” your own unique picture. One of our recent projects involved creating wall art by combining artificial greenery and artificial grass, resulting in an impression of a golf course that complements the actual practice green below. The addition of artificial grass extends the range of textures and colours, offering a wide selection of vibrant and subtle shades like blue, pink, red, silver, and black. Both artificial grass and Vistafolia panels can be cut into any shape, allowing you to create a completely bespoke artwork that reflects your individuality.
Green Wall Art as a Disguise
Artistry, or artifice, can transform necessary but visually unappealing elements of a building’s structure, such as exposed pipework, heating vents, or iron fire escapes. By framing these elements with artificial green wall panels, they take on a new character, contrasting interestingly with the surrounding foliage.
Alternatively, you can hide these elements almost entirely by transforming them into an artwork against the backdrop of a Vistafolia artificial green wall. By cutting the panels into strips and using foliage from our Colour Boxes to fill in the gaps, you can create a visually pleasing composition that transforms otherwise ordinary components into something extraordinary.
Unleash the Potential of Vistafolia Wall Art
The versatility of our artificial green wall system knows no bounds. The panels can be cut into narrow strips, angled diagonally, or bent to fit curved surfaces. They can be framed individually, cover an entire wall, hide functional elements, or serve as captivating features. Interior plants themselves are works of art, imitating the captivating complexity of nature while evoking the serenity associated with natural surroundings.
Beyond their aesthetic appeal, living with natural forms and shapes has profound psychological and physiological benefits. Research on “biophilic design” reveals the positive impact of connecting with nature, which a stunning plant-covered wall can provide. It offers a sense of tranquillity and relaxation that surpasses the effect of a painted accent wall.
To learn more about how Vistafolia can create a unique green wall art installation for your home, office, or company premises, contact us today.
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