How to add a new dimension to your walls

Who says walls have to be flat and boring? We look at ways of giving your walls a lift by adding texture, colour, special effects and other three dimensional effects to them.

Back in the day, walls were anything but flat. They were made of slapped-on mud or plaster, roughly-hewn timber, stone or brick. Later came beautifully crafted panelling like the ones pictured above. A wall wasn’t just a wall, it was a work of art. There was none of the bland flatness we see everywhere now.

We blame the invention of plasterboard.

But, thankfully, people’s attitudes to walls seem to be changing. We’re seeing the return of texture – in wallpaper, plastering and painting, and in alcoves and nooks in walls. We’re even seeing strong splashes of colour and the use of objects that seem to be bursting through the wall, as in the photo below.  

Monica Corduneanu of Archinteriors… sent us photos of the Webshake office, a project which she recently completed. According to the designer,”

“The idea was to develop a unique and personalised space,”says the architect, Monica Corduneanu of Archinteriors, of this office for a web design company. “At the same time the clients wanted a fun and colourful interior. This is why I chose to use two strong colours, turquoise and yellow, with small accents of red.”

A more subdued effect was achieved by the use of 22,000 wooden sticks stuck into the wall pictured below, creating an effect like a field of wheat in the wind or the fur of an animal. The MRQT Boutique’s design in Stuttgart, Germany, was completed this year by ROK…, an architectural office specialising in design solutions for interiors.

If you’re into parched desert landscapes complete with huge cactus, here’s the panelling for you. We love the way the panel is raised out from the wall to throw a very No Country for Old Men shadow.

We’re of an age when we can still (but barely) remember the early days of Coronation Street, when it was Hilda Ogden’s idea of a dream home to have a “Muriel” on the wall. The modern-day version by Vimagio shown below is a large scale, self-adhesive wallpaper mural made of an innovative material with canvas structure so application is extremely easy.

Of course, if the illusion that you are about to be sucked into a jet engine doesn’t spin your wheels, you could always copy Hilda’s idea of a blue sky with porcelain ducks. Or you could go for the more muted texture of the bamboo wall panels below by 3DWalldecor.

Not enough of a statement for you? Try this bolder block effect by Wallpanels3D [www.wallpanels3d.com] with stronger colour and wall lamps to accentuate the light-and-shadow effect…

… or these really vivid wall panels with a more flowing effect…

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