Large Wall Hangings to Make a Great Impression

Want to transform yourself and your guests when it comes to wall art? Then you have a few choices, and this includes large paintings and large tapestries. So what are the top 3 themes for wall tapestries when it comes to decorating your home? What can be used as large wall art to fill a space and to have an impressive impact? Let's go through them here.

1. Use a landscape or verdure scene

Why a landscape? A landscape has the ability to make you feel as you've stepped into another world, and are inhabiting a different environment. How? It's when you step into a room where there is a beautiful art background to the entire scene.

When this occurs, you feel as if you're now in another place and time. A natural landscape is not only soothing, it is also beautiful and as such remains a popular theme for tapestries including large tapestries and wall hangings. A variation on this is cityscape and nautical scenes as these are a combination of nature and buildings to create a scene that you can just go into.

2. Use a portiere design

Loosely referred to as portieres, a portiere tapestry is any wall tapestry which contains designs arranged in a beautiful manner for decorating a space. They were traditionally used in castles to cover walls and doorways, but in modern homes refers to tapestries to decorate wall spaces.

Some tapestries are elaborate in design and contains images of heraldry, nature, animals and other design motifs arranged in such a way as to best decorate the scene. In other words, they are composed of various elements either in a simple way or in a totally rich and elaborate way, to create a specific effect.

3. Use a design that you simply like

This is another approach which is more modern and this is to say to choose any large tapestry that you like the look of.

Any theme can be had here including religious, French including the art works of Francois Boucher, William Morris, unicorn, medieval, old world maps, nautical scenes, Asian and Oriental, floral and fruit, art tapestries inspired from paintings and art ranging from the Renaissance to Impressionism and beyond.

Large art on the wall has a profound effect on the room, so choose something that you like.

So if you want to decorate a room or home, consider the impact that a large piece of art or tapestry can have on your home and see what effect you can achieve. For their romantic, scenic and decorative qualities, you can turn a room into something special.

Because of their ability to transform a room and to give a room real atmosphere, tapestries have been used as wall decor for centuries and continue to do so.

Tom Matherson writes for Worldwide Tapestries which offers a wide range of European wall tapestries and wall decor to transform any home. See this site for the latest in landscape art tapestries that you can use to enhance any room or home and to create a grand impression.