Paintings have been used as interior decoration for centuries. Fashion trends are changing, but the desire to decorate residential and non-residential premises is still relevant. A new interpretation of a familiar decorative element - modular paintings in the living room interior, consisting of two or more modules or segments united by one plot - have become widespread in modern design.
Depending on the number of such segments, the following are distinguished:
- diptych – a painting consisting of two modules;
- triptych - an image of three elements;
- quadriptych - of four;
- polyptych – of five or more segments.
Segments can be the same or different sizes, rectangular and square, vertical and horizontal. The unity of the composition is ensured by the absence of elements limiting each module, such as frames or baguettes.
The plot of a modular picture can be presented in any genre:
- scenery;
- still life;
- portrait of one or more characters;
- animalistic;
- floristic;
- domestic;
- historical.
Modular paintings can be used to decorate the interiors of a living room and bedroom, an office and a nursery, a kitchen and a hall, a spacious bathroom.
For each room, images should be selected in accordance with the style, color scheme of wall, ceiling and floor coverings, ceiling height, lighting level, area.
How to choose a modular picture for the living room
The living room is one of the most significant rooms of the apartment, where it is customary for the whole family to gather, celebrate special events, and receive guests. Modular paintings in the interior of the hall should attract attention and be in perfect harmony with the overall design. It is important to position the image correctly so that the view opens from the entrance to the room. Usually in the living room it is customary to place a sofa in the most advantageous place, so the most effective placement of a modular picture on the wall is precisely above this piece of furniture.
materials
Today mass-produced modular images
are printed on various materials, and most often these are fabrics or non-woven fabrics and polymer films. In both cases, the printing technology ensures the highest color reproduction of photographic works or image reproduction. Segmented paintings, created to order or in small series, are today painted on canvas, usually with acrylic or oil paints.
The polyptych is placed on thick and printed posters with or without frames in ordinary rooms, under normal room conditions and humidity. Simply put, everything in the bedroom, living room and hallway down to the rice paper.
The kitchen and bathroom have the right polymer materials, particularly good old vinyl. Polypeptide polypeptides can be installed directly on the wall, as well as on a transparent or opaque base. Today this solution is very popular, creating a segmented image of a self-adhesive film installed on the inside of the glass. Pictures on glass effectively resist moisture and require minimal maintenance.
In addition to the bathroom and kitchen, particularly resistant materials and durable structures require open or semi-open spaces:
- terrace (veranda, rotunda),
- balcony,
- loggia.
In a word, materials for extreme conditions will be needed wherever they “walk”: wind, cold, sun, dry heat and humid fog. The same principle is followed when choosing a modular image of ship cabins.
Matching style
When thinking about how to choose a decorative composition, you need to take into account all the nuances. When choosing an image, we focus on the style of the living room:
- Modular paintings for a spacious hall, decorated in a classic style, can be floral, historical, or household.
- Abstract and futuristic paintings look great in a high-tech living room with black, white, dark gray or chocolate walls.
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- In the Mediterranean-style room, images in the antique style, seascapes, and panoramic views of Italian and Greek landscapes look especially advantageous.
- Among the bright variety of ethnic styles, African is recognized as one of the most popular, which is distinguished by its originality and special flavor of the Black Continent. In an African-style living room, sand dunes, an African savannah with grazing herds of buffalo, images of giraffes, antelopes, and lion prides look extremely impressive.
Decorating a children's room
What is the difference between children and adults? They are always full of energy, interested in everything new and believe in miracles. Based on this, the images should be bright and interesting. Psychologists say that a child's environment and surroundings influence his development and mental state. Considering this fact, it is worth consciously approaching the issue of choosing a photo for a children's room.
All children are special. Some are restless and angry, others are calm and thoughtful. This should of course be reflected in the color of the image. For very active children, choose muted and pastel colors. They adapt them peacefully. Young dreamers are better off, on the contrary, offering bright and rich colors that will stimulate them to action and new challenges.
Also remember that children love to play. When choosing a photo location in a child's room, position it so that it does not interfere with his daily activities and entertainment.
Classic Disney stories.
Disney cartoons are popular with many children. Having become classics, unlike modern animated films, they will not go out of fashion in a few years. Therefore, you cannot be afraid that your interior will become meaningless in a year or two.
A Disney story can transport even an adult into a fairy tale.
Children really love cute animals. A modular image of a kitten or puppy can be an excellent alternative to a live animal.
Important points
It is equally important to remember the following nuances:
- A spacious living room on the sunny side will look especially advantageous if you decorate the wall above the sofa with a polyptych - a modular picture of several segments. The ideal number is from 3 to 7.
- The color palette of the canvas can be chosen in accordance with the general background or act as a contrast.
- The choice of genre is practically unlimited and depends on the preferences of the owners and the style of the interior - it can be a tropical jungle or savannah, sea, rural and urban landscapes, photographs of family members, favorite pets, wild animals, flowers, plants, fruits. African motifs, night cities, historical sights, and alpine meadows are extremely popular today.
- Bright colors lift the mood, calm neutral tones create an atmosphere of comfort and tranquility.
- Modular paintings in the interior of a small living room above the sofa must be illuminated. You can achieve the desired level of illumination by installing sconces on the sides of the wall, a row of spotlights, or placing a floor lamp next to the sofa.
Choosing a photo for the kitchen
In the kitchen, life is always preparing - something is being fried, boiled, boiled or washed. With such activities, you should first think about the security of the image. It should not contain drops of water, steam or oil from the pan. Choose a place where it will be visible, but external factors will not negatively affect it.
The most popular kitchen motif, of course, is the image of food. You can choose a photo using coffee beans, citrus fruits or sweets.
The image of citrus fruits increases appetite
However, if you do not want to use the traditional technique, feel free to choose a photo to your liking.
As already mentioned, modular images have no restrictions on the number and size of segments.
The location of the segments can also be very varied. It is not necessary to consider each in detail separately. It is enough to have a general idea of what configurations can be. Some placement options are shown in the following pictures.
There can be a lot of options for placing a segment. Choose the one that suits you best
Ratio of photo size to plane
In order for the image to look harmonious in the interior, certain proportions must be observed.
- If the photo is located above a bed, sofa or table, its width should not exceed their width (and it is better that there be 15-30 cm less on each side).
- The image should not cover more than half the wall (ideally, the length of the image is one third of the length of the wall). But it shouldn’t be too small.
- When choosing an image size, keep in mind that the space it occupies will increase due to the distance between the segments.
Color range
Color is a powerful weapon in the hands of the designer and decorator. In addition to the aesthetic component, it affects our psyche. Detailed, thoughtful colors of the room and apartment will make the interior cozy and welcoming. A modular image in this context should not stand out from the overall composition.
Examples of a harmonious combination of image and interior color in the photo
An excellent example of a combination of interior and paintings in soft colors.
The painting fully supports the style of the room. Bright interior accents are reflected in the painting. Modular image is a universal tool that can transform and decorate any interior. This is an easy and affordable way to update the interior of your home. Another plus is that disassembling the image will not take much time and effort. Don't be afraid to experiment with different forms and content. Change your interior and fill your life with colors.
Today, the interior of the house easily takes on modular images, regardless of the style in which it is made. There are exceptions to the rules (for example, Japanese minimalism and Victorian style), but they are rather conventional. Meanwhile, the modular image itself is an excellent gift for a loved one, for yourself or for a couple, for example, for a housewarming or for the next anniversary...
It should probably be noted that today's prices for these stylish and fashionable home decoration items are very affordable. Everyone is offered a choice - original, modern and strict classics. The view can be anything - more or less colorful (even black and white), be it landscape, portrait, still life, graphics or abstraction.
Choice for a small room
Modular paintings for a living room in a small apartment must be selected according to the following criteria:
- Images of a garden, a forest, an open veranda covered with greenery, the sea, and a sandy beach have the effect of visually expanding space.
- Narrow vertical modules visually raise the ceiling in a standard Khrushchev-era building.
- The image should not be too large or wide.
- The permissible number of modules is no more than 3.
For the living room on the shady side, it is advisable to choose a painting in light warm colors - a landscape with the sun rising over the sea, a still life with bright juicy fruits - oranges, bananas, peaches, large flowers.
Christmas Saints
Cooking at home is becoming the main focus of home entertainment for most people. Here you can:
- unleash your culinary imagination;
- quench hunger and thirst;
- finally meet family members;
- watch TV (casually or intentionally);
- retire
According to the plot, the kitchen is a good still life, which depicts food products such as linens with fruits and / or vegetables, drinks (coffee, cocoa, juice, tea), venison, flowers, table vegetables. Here, the best wild animals or pastoral scenes will also suit the landscapes.
Module placement
There are uniform criteria for decorating spacious and small living rooms:
- The ideal place for a modular painting is a plain wall in light colors without bright decorative elements, painted or decorated with wallpaper or decorative plaster.
- Depending on the plot and composition, segments can be located on one or several levels.
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- When placing modules at different levels, the bottom edge of the last module should be at least 12–15 cm above the back of the sofa.
- The center of the composition should be located above the central part of the sofa.
- To create the effect of movement and volume, the modules should be placed at some distance from each other.
- The spaces between segments should be the same.
- Vertical modules visually increase the height of the room, horizontal ones expand it.
Confidentiality
Personal rooms, in particular the bedroom, are intended for deep rest - close relationships with other people and sleep. Here are the right photographs that help relax the mind - distract attention from annoying thoughts, relieve mental stress after a hard or ordinary day at work.
For the bedroom, it is recommended to choose polyptychs made in calm, soft colors, for example, photographs of flowers and landscapes in pastel colors. A little more complicated, but you can also find portraits with calm faces. You can also choose a “portrait” of non-aggressive animals: frolicking or sleeping kittens, cats, tigers, dogs, a good-natured bear, deer, etc.
It is also possible to use a combined solution for multifunctional rooms - a bedroom or studio. In such cases, the miniature above the table and the wall painting (visible from the threshold or from the parking lot) should contain different subjects. Of course, both images should be harmoniously combined with the overall interior of the room for working in the bedroom.
The bathroom and toilet are places of personal hygiene that also require distraction from worries. When decorating a bathroom, it is usually not recommended to use cool shades of blue-green hues. At the same time, warm green (walnut) or soft blue colors of the evening sky are suitable. At the same time, practice shows that, in general, a modular canvas, selected with taste, turns into a stylish SPA salon.
Types of modular paintings and manufacturing methods
In modern art, the choice of various materials and methods of manufacturing decorative elements is almost inorganic. Among the most popular and expensive techniques for creating modular paintings:
- oil painting on canvas stretched on a slatted stretcher;
- paintings made by glass printing;
- paintings made using silk-screen printing technique;
- embroidery;
- mosaic panels made from scraps of natural or artificial leather with fragments of stone, metal, and wood.
Modular paintings-reproductions of works by Chinese artists, made using the silk-screen printing technique, are an excellent decor for a hall decorated in the Chinese style.
Mosaic panels made of leather, wood, metal, stone will become an exquisite touch in an ethnic living room.
You can select a modular painting in accordance with your wishes on the personal websites of artists or in specialized online stores.
Creating compositions
More often, painted canvases or their printed version are used for interior design. When creating printed images, high-quality photo printing techniques are used. The drawing can be applied to the canvas by the artist using oil paints.
When the work is ready, it is stretched and attached to a stretcher, which is often made of wood. This is a gallery type. Used when creating frameless designs. Any sizes available.
You need to secure the finished canvas with staples on the stretcher. The mounting location is on the back of the subframe, but not on the side.
The picture looks more attractive this way and holds up more reliably. Then it is necessary to apply a special coating composition, which protects the image and gives it completeness and expressiveness. For the final coating, use gel or varnish.
If you wish, you can order modular paintings with personal photos of the home owners from some companies. If you use the service of printing paintings to order, the products can turn out to be ideally suited to the interior. They can be selected based on the artistic image and layout.
Is it possible to make a modular painting with your own hands?
The most affordable are paintings made using photo printing, the cost of which does not exceed 3–5 thousand rubles. You can create such compositions yourself by selecting and printing an image from the Internet. Then the picture should be transferred to a dense base, pasted onto wallpaper or other high-quality covering material, carefully cut into the required number of fragments and each of them attached to a wooden frame, which should be located on the wrong side of the product.
Modular paintings in the living room interior, placed above the sofa, photos of which are presented on the websites of design agencies and online stores, will help many people find their own style and create a unique composition.
Children's room
Children grow up, and their tastes change over time, and the “color” of the walls changes accordingly. At the initiative of parents, the frequency of updates ranges from 2 to 5, maybe 7 years. The younger generation may have their own opinions - usually less conservative than their parents.
It is known that in adolescence (11-16 years old) a teenager's tastes change quickly - so fashion posters will be updated several times a year. Therefore, the children's room should have an easily replaceable modular image design.
In general, the simplest scenes work best for a child's room. For example, for children under 12 years of age the images are suitable:
- Pets
- birds,
- trees,
- herbs
- flowers,
- trees
Animals or plants should be presented in different shades of the main color in the design of the children's room. In a children's room up to 3 years old, you can choose segments painted in different colors that harmoniously match the overall color.
For older children, collections that should be kept in the same style and executed on canvas or printed on paper or plastic sheet are suitable. It can be in large format:
- Personal Photos;
- portraits of favorite artists;
- portraits of athletes;
- sports photo.
Regarding technical features, it should be noted that the inhabitants of the children's room are very eccentric. They can:
- use school materials carelessly: pens, pencils, paints, markers;
- eat chocolate, cream and other products that pollute the interior;
- play with a ball;
- run and jump...
Many things can suggest an unbridled childhood fantasy. Obviously, bulky structures, fragile and non-combustible materials will be unsuitable.
A little history
Modular paintings entered modern life from altars and walls of religious buildings. In the ancient world they were a typical form of church decoration. This manifested itself among both northern and southern peoples. The ancient Celts, Byzantines, and Romans decorated their buildings.
Historians date the appearance of such images to the 9th century AD; the first officially confirmed modular painting is kept in the city of Gdansk, where the National Museum of Poland is located. It was created in 1470 and is called “The Last Judgment”.
Military history museums present all kinds of panoramas of events, each part of which can be considered as a separate work of art. In the modern world, there is a different interpretation of such images, far from military or religious views. Today it is a wonderful room decoration that brings comfort and unique design to the home.
