Decorating your home with white

White is the most widely used colour in the wall decoration of homes, shops and offices. Its popularity comes from how easily it can be paired with other colours and with different styles. It is also a neutral colour that brings plenty of light and a sense of order, cleanliness and serenity. At the same time, it's worth remembering that a room dominated by white can easily look bland and lacking in personality. In this new guide to using colours for your walls, we will give you several tips on using white in your home décor to create an elegant, sophisticated atmosphere. In particular, we will suggest fine art photography and boldly coloured images for decorating white walls. In our collection you will find designer pictures and art prints of all the images we present in this article.

1. Painting your walls white

White is a shade that results from the absence of all other colours and, for this reason, it is often associated with purity and cleanliness. Decorating your home in white gives your rooms a particularly refined elegance.

Because of its limited colour intensity, white lends itself to being paired with many different colours: it can be used with pastel colours for delicate compositions in Provençal décor or in country chic style; we can use it to balance and enhance especially vivid splashes of colour in a modern-style living room; or it can come in handy in its muted, aged variations (cream, ivory, beige, etc.) for urban-style décor or vintage style.

Given its great brightness, white can be used in rooms facing any direction. It is especially well suited to dark or north-facing rooms, as it creates a pleasant sense of airiness and light.

2. How to create the total white look

It's now common knowledge that the décor of our surroundings has a significant influence on our mood and on how we feel when we spend time in them. That's why it's important to choose carefully the colours we want to use in our home or shop, according to the kind of emotion and atmosphere we want to create.

A home or shop decorated in total white style brings out to the full the feelings of brightness, order and purity that belong to white. This kind of décor grows out of the minimal strand of modern style, which is based on the principle of essential shapes and objects; total white goes one step further, doing away with colour too.

3. How to decorate your walls with fine art prints

A home dominated by white can easily lead to rooms that feel too static and cold, with a monotonous or even oppressive atmosphere (let's not forget that white is used in hospitals). In any setting, it's always a good idea to create a certain sense of movement that can stir the emotions of whoever is looking. Below are some particularly striking prints you can use to liven up your walls or give them personality and warmth.

In a home dominated by white, this sense of movement can also be created with dynamic shapes or splashes of colour scattered across your field of vision. A very elegant effect comes from using a single colour together with white, for example a warm colour such as orange or a neutral one such as green. A simple and very effective way to create this kind of movement is to use art prints in bold colours that bring rooms to life. Take a look at these suggestions from our collection.

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