How to Choose Living Room Paintings

August 12, 2010 - Living rooms are decorated with passion by people. Living room paintings are one of the substances of passion. There are many people who love to experiment with different types of paintings for living room decor. There are others who take paintings as just one of the many wall decor items. In whatever ways paintings are used, they truly liven up your living room. However, this needs a little thought, creativity and research because if you just buy any painting and hang it in your living room, it can sometimes either deteriorate your whole living room decor or can overshadow the other aspects of interior decoration. So, lets know how to choose paintings for living room so that they complement your room's decor.

Large or Small Paintings?

Where most of the decorative things should be used in proportion to your living room size, paintings can be all large or all small but then you have to be a little cautious about their numbers and placing position. For example, a large painting will look good in both- large as well as small living room but then you must hang only one large painting on a wall of a small room. In large living room, if your wall is large enough to accommodate two large paintings, you can hang them even side by side. You may also use some other decorative in between them such as a wall sconce between two identical paintings. When using small paintings, you can always hang them in line one after other- just choose to match them so that they do not look odd!

What Style of Painting?

What type of painting are you going to choose depends upon your individual taste for the artwork. You can go for decorative paintings, oil paintings, watercolor paintings, paper, cardboard or canvas painting- anything that satisfies your creative soul but just remember to pick the one that goes with your living room decor. For example, you might have a living room that is decorated in contemporary style with all sleek and angular furniture. You cannot plan to hang an antique painting there, can you? Or imagine, you have a traditional living room decor and you suddenly buy painting- an absolutely abstract painting- will this go with your living room decor? So, just be realistic while choosing a living room painting. However, there are certain paintings that mostly go with all types of living room decor. These evergreen paintings include such styles as landscape paintings, flower paintings, still life paintings etc.

Expensive or Cheap Paintings?

Now that mostly depends upon how much can you spend. There is no limit on the cost of paintings if you decide to spend on them. You can get original paintings of maestros for a fortune just if you can spare that sum of amount or you can go for reproduction paintings if you desire to have such exclusive paintings but your pocket doesn't allow that. However, one thing is clear that cheap paintings doesn't mean that they are of secondary class.

It may just mean that the particular 'cheap painting' has been made by upcoming artists who want to establish themselves as good painters or that they are produced in bulk like the Chinese paintings or that they are reproduction art prints and not the original ones. One more thing, extraordinarily expensive painting might sometimes look out of place among very ordinary objects of a living room! So, choose a living room painting according to its own 'budget!'

Have a look at some Decorative Paintings For Living Room just to get an idea about what types of paintings look fabulous in different living room surroundings!