Featured Art: Sabina Wall Art by Zachar Rise available from Great Big Canvas
How to Decorate with New Romance Home Decor
An unexpected rising trend in interior design the past few years is New Romance. While this might at first seem like a trait that best belongs in your next date night rather than your living room walls. Arising out of European design sensibilities, New Romance decor combines deep colors with luxurious, rich textures and accents to create a timeless elegant look refined by modern style.
The key elements to recreate this look in any room are: a dark wall color or bold pattern, rich fabric coverings, luxurious metallic accents, and strong sensual wall art.This design sensibilities ought to evoke passion and speak to all five senses as you enter the room. More so than any other trend, the specific style elements of New Romance decor should be tempered by your own personal tastes so you can truly take pleasure in your surroundings. Learn more about how to decorate your home with art and color by blending the essentials of this classic style with your personal design sensibilities.
Willing To Love Myself Wall Art by Amira Rahim available from Great Big Canvas
Dark Wall
Deep warm jewel tones, such as plum or falu (dark red) are hallmarks of romantic style. A warm gray charcoal is also a good option and more versatile depending on the other colors you want to introduce into the space. Introducing a warm light source, either from natural lighting or using yellow light bulbs, will help keep the room from feeling confining despite the dark color. Still don’t love the idea of painting a whole dark? Try limiting a bold paint color on just one wall. Or try a patterned removable wallpaper, dark florals or marble inspired designs can evoke the same rich feeling as a bold wall. Any canvas wall art available on Great Big Canvas is also available as a vinyl wall peel in many sizes, allowing you the option to create your own custom wall covering.
Rich Fabric Coverings
Feed your senses of sight and touch by including rich textures into any room’s decor. Fabric is an important element of the New Romantic decor, due to its dual function as a decor necessity (as window treatments, cushion coverings, and the like) as well as adding an additional layer of luxury without overpowering the room. Try adding in faux fur and chenille as a statement rug or accent chair covering to enhance the warm, inviting feel in your home decor upgrade. Or capitalize on the unique texture of velvet or satin accents for a more sleek, expensive look.
Metallic Accents
Timeless touches are a perfect accent to the rich color and texture in romantic decor. Choose between metallic luster of polish brass, gold, or silver to bring touches of light into your room. Or try a black matte finish (iron accents have been trending upward recently) if you are going for a darker, moodier palette.
Strong, Sensual Wall Art
Compelling form and design can be enhanced by every element in the room but art is the most striking way to emphasize your new home decor style. Being something of an art expert here at Great Big Canvas, we’ve taken the time to compile a list of essential wall art strategize to put the final polish on your New Romantic home decor:
Gum Nuts I Wall Art by Melissa Wang available from Great Big Canvas
Feminine Figures
Strength and softness are the key elements in romantic decor. The feminine figure embodies both, as well as tapping into a lineage of classical art history, cementing its standing as an element of timeless romantic wall art. Paring figurative form art with work with both a traditional or modern approach to New Romance decor. Try black and white line art in a framed print to help it pop, or a watercolor abstract figure art on canvas for a softer and more organic look. To flesh out a gallery wall pair contrasting forms, or add in spots of color with complementary floral art prints.
Garden Journal IV Wall Art by Amy Melious available from Great Big Canvas
Pleasing Patterns
Building romance into your decor has a lot less to do with dating than it is about finding the art with which to perfectly express your palette. While the bold colors with strong textures that populate romantic home decor might make you shy away from patterns, that shouldn’t be the case. If you’ve incorporated patterned wallpaper, find canvas wall art that emulates the same pattern to create a 3D art installation that jumps off the wall (with every image on Great Big Canvas available as both canvas and as a large scale wall peel, we make this easier than ever). Opulent art deco patterns are another option to help your romantic decor shine. Use these geometric designs to infuse your living space with the Gatsby-esque glamour and wealth of the Roaring Twenties. Still feeling pattern shy? Selecting a print with a simple black frame (available with our floating frame canvas or framed fine art) will help your geometric art pop against any wall color!
In the Rain Wall Art by Linda Woods available from Great Big Canvas
Historical Touches
Thoughtfully crafted designs and old fashioned silhouettes always add a romantic element to any space. Photography more than any other medium combines these careful elements into modern works of art. Vintage black and white framed photography will bring a personal touch to to romantic design’s atmosphere. Use your art to reference the historical moments or periods of design that you love, blending photo prints, vintage ads, and fine art from that period into a beautiful romantic wall art display. Try a series of fashion plates or early Vogue covers down the hallway. Or use photography to make a speak toward family history, combining old family photographs and artefacts with map prints of your hometown. To create a homogenous look with such varied art styles, try the same trick as geometric art prints: framed prints with light mats to highlight the artwork against the rich colors or textures in the room. Or blend framed art with canvas art or unframed fine art paper prints for eclectic flair.
Find the perfect romantic wall art to begin your own New Romance home renovation right here with Great Big Canvas: New Romance Art.