How to Create an Accent Wall: 9 Ideas

Making the interior brighter and adding mood is easy: you just need to highlight one of the walls in the room. We found several ideas in designers' projects — take note.

Decorative Plaster + Lighting

Decorator Zhenya Zhdanova decided to decorate a niche in the living room in blue tones: for this, she chose textured plaster and adorned it with gold lights in the shape of fortune wheels.

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Brick + Poster

Despite the fact that the walls in this bedroom are already contrasted, one of them stands out strongly. Designers from Cartelle Design decorated the accent wall with natural brick and dark grout, complemented by a poster.

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Paint + Moldings

In a light bedroom, designer Maria Glagoleva decided to make one wall bright blue and decorate it with moldings.

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Posters + Photos

Designer Olga Siruk painted the walls in her apartment white. One of them was decorated with light posters and photos — a simple and quick way.

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Printed Wallpapers

In a child's room in her house, designer Oksana Butman used a classic trick: she painted all the walls light blue and covered one of them with printed wallpapers in the same tone.

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Concrete Tiles + Paint

The wall in the living room was decorated by designers from «Tor-Ard» with concrete tiles that look like brick and painted with emerald green paint. To avoid the wall looking empty, they adorned it with a neon light.

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Artistic Painting

When decorating a bedroom in a country house, designers Dina Kostochka and Nina Bir kadze decided to use artistic painting. The designs were created based on the motifs of paintings in the Church of St. Basil the Blessed.

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Photo Wallpapers

The wall above the bed head was decorated using photo wallpapers. For a dark apartment interior, black wallpapers with an image of a full moon were ideal.

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Gold Frames

When the budget is limited, any means are acceptable. For example, designer Marina Merenkova decided to decorate the wall with a composition of frames coated with gold paint. It turned out stylish and inexpensive.

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