Wall Art for Kitchen

Such a modern room is hard to imagine without beautiful vases, dishes, and various small items. Indeed, it is through these small details that a complete image and effect of the space are created. However, paintings with various images create a particular atmosphere. How to choose paintings for the kitchen is shown in the photos in our article.

Rule for Choosing Paintings for the Kitchen

Before decorating the walls in the kitchen, you need to decide on the main aspects of the interior: what size and shape they should be, what content they should have, what meaning they should convey, etc. Images are intended to complement and enhance the kitchen design, making it fresh and unique, attracting attention and becoming part of your apartment. Therefore, before choosing paintings, consider the following factors:

1. Kitchen decoration style. You need to determine in what style the kitchen design is done. Do you want something simple and light or something elaborate and strict, for example.
2. Wall finishing. Pay attention to the texture of the wall finish, its style and color. Is additional work needed or will it be done later.
3. Other decorative elements. You need to consider the material from which all furniture is made. Is it in the same color and texture, and does it fit into the space of your kitchen.
4. Place for the painting. You need to think in advance about where the images will be placed. On which wall, on what background, at what height, etc.
5. Accents in the kitchen. Using images, you can highlight one or more zones, diverting attention from the food preparation area. Which specific zone do you want to highlight?

After analyzing all these factors, you can proceed to select the appropriate direction for decorating.

Design: Natalia Mitrackova

Painting Selection by Theme

Among the numerous and varied options of photos and images for the kitchen, you can highlight the main directions:

1. Floral and fruit themes
2. Nature studies
3. Photographs and portraits
4. Abstraction

We will consider each option with examples in photos.

Design: Dina Salakhova

Floral and Fruit Theme

This is the most common theme. It is used to decorate a kitchen in any style.

These paintings are often chosen to match the kitchen cabinet. For a vibrant design, images of bright, exotic fruits are used. For calm variants, images with berry motifs are chosen.

Floral canvases often depict roses and orchids. They suit any interior style. For Provence and modern styles, images of field plants are used.

Design: Maria Pilypenko and Ekaterina Fedorova

Nature Studies in Interior

To decorate a design in a conservative style, paintings with nature study motifs are used. On such paintings, flower and fruit images are combined with the kitchen cabinet.

Photos and Portraits

If you cannot choose a painting for the kitchen, you can hang a photo from your family album. If you don't want to do this, you can replace it with portraits of celebrities or copies of famous portraits.

Design: Anna Vasilieva

Abstraction for Decoration

If ordinary paintings seem too boring to you, you can use abstractions. They fit perfectly into the design of a kitchen in modern style. Nevertheless, such types of paintings are not in high demand.

Design: Loven Skold

Types of Painting Frames

To make a canvas fit beautifully into the design, you need to choose not only the image but also the frame itself. There are many options for framing images on the market. Let's look at the most popular variants.

• Frameless

This is the most popular method. It represents a painting stretched on a frame. However, when choosing, you need to consider the texture of the material. Simple posters would not be appropriate.

• Simple Frames

Frames suit many design styles. Dark and restrained shades will not distract from the image and will highlight it. They are perfect for a kitchen decorated in modern styles: modern, classic, high-tech, and any contemporary style.

You can draw attention to the image using a bright frame. Just keep in mind the main color in the interior.

• Figurative Frames

Figurative frames with various patterns are not quite suitable for the kitchen. Small details collect dust on surfaces that are very difficult to clean, which is not appropriate for a kitchen.

Beautiful patterns suit classical style and some modern styles, such as art deco.

• Unusual Frames

An unusual frame will undoubtedly become a decoration for the entire kitchen. You can make it yourself or buy it. When creating a frame, you can use your entire imagination. Various elements are used: beads, sticks, shells, sequins, coins, and others.

Selection of Paintings by Color Scheme

Before choosing a painting for the kitchen, you need to analyze the color scheme of the entire room. The painting should repeat the main color. For example, if the furniture is orange, it's better to hang a painting with citrus tones on the wall. However, you need to consider the color scheme of the walls. You must not let the canvas blend into the wall background. That is, if the kitchen is lilac, a purple painting will not fit well into the chosen interior. If the wall color and the canvas color are similar, you can highlight it with a frame.

Matching Size to Design

For a beautiful decoration, you need to consider the size of the paintings and the shape of the room. It is not necessary to use canvases of identical sizes. You can hang a group of paintings or photos with different sizes but approximately the same theme.

When choosing, it is important to consider the geometric dimensions of the kitchen. If the ceiling height is low but the width is large, the canvas should be chosen in a long shape. For a kitchen with high ceilings, elongated canvases are selected.

The space designated for paintings also plays a big role. It would be foolish to hang one small painting on a large wall, and exactly the opposite. On a small section of the wall, you shouldn't hang a canvas of large size.

Placement Methods

How to place the canvas is up to you. There are no specific restrictions in this matter. It is important to consider the size of the canvas and the allocated space. The bottom edges of the images should align. Images are hung at eye level. When doing so, consider their size. If they are small, you can lower them a bit. But if they are large in size, hang them strictly in the center of the wall.

• Horizontal

For horizontal placement, canvases and photos of identical sizes will do. It is acceptable to use images of the same height but different lengths. In this case, it is necessary to adhere to one theme for the paintings.

• Vertical

For vertical placement, the size of the canvas is also important. In this case, their width should be identical. More beautiful to look at are images of the same size.

• Mixed

In this case, images of the same size look very beautiful. Place the main photos or canvases in the center, they attract attention and should be the largest ones. On the sides, place secondary images of smaller sizes.

Design: Tatiana Fabytsyna

Locations

Hang paintings in the bright part of the room, but so that direct sunlight does not fall on them. Under the effect of ultraviolet light, paintings deteriorate quickly. But if you hang them in a dark place, they will not be noticed at all.

If there are no such places in the kitchen, you can use special lighting for images. In addition, when choosing a canvas, you should make your choice on large images.

Separate canvases are hung opposite the working area. Smaller ones can be placed under the apron. Usually, images decorate the dining room. Or a large painting is hung near the entrance.

Large canvases are better hung separately. Smaller works of art can be used to create compositions. The choice depends on personal preferences of the homeowner. It is important to follow the general rules.

Design: Svetlana Yurkova

How to Make a Painting Yourself

You don't need special talents to work. You just need desire, available materials, imagination, and a little money. The Internet will help find an idea.

For the work, you can find all necessary materials at home. Do a review of kitchen cupboards. You can find peas, coffee beans, flour, pasta, beans, various beautiful spices, tea leaves or laurel, nuts.

You can make a three-dimensional panel from flour. From it, you make dough and create various figures and elements. After modeling, dry it and paint with colors.

For a painting from coffee beans, beans, and similar materials, you need to prepare the base. For this, ordinary cardboard will do. It can be covered with beautiful fabric. Then draw a sketch with a pencil or marker on it. Each part of the future masterpiece is coated with glue and arranged on it. In the future, they can be painted in various colors.

You can enhance the image with ribbons, buttons, beads, old dishes. In general, anything that is at hand.

Design: Alexandrina Lukach
Design: Maxim Noda

When decorating a kitchen with various paintings, the main thing is not to overdo it and not overload the interior. But a little beauty never hurts. Beautiful paintings on the kitchen create comfort and highlight the main idea of the interior.

Beautiful variants of kitchen decoration with paintings are shown in the video