The Basic Role of Pictures
Wall art plays an important role in interior design as it helps create
the ambience of a room. By cleverly placing wall pictures in certain
ways, you can change and create a new look and feel in a room.
The role wall pictures play in interior design a-

pictures, mirrors or other ornamental accessories on walls help make
the room look 'lived in' and they also inject your personality into
the room;
color pictures and prints help connect with the rooms accent;
pictures help absorb noise in a room, otherwise a room with totally
bare walls will sound empty and will have an echo;
pictures and prints can help enhance or change a room's 'look and
feel'.
How to Lengthen a Room
If you have a small room in your house, you can easily achieve the
illusion of length. This can be done in two ways. If you like bold
statements then simply paint a couple of horizontal lines in a bold
color across the middle of the wall in which you want to lengthen.
These lines then naturally create the illusion of increased length in
the room. An alternative way to do this, and a more subtle way, is to
use pictures....

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