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Feb-25-2010

Making A View With No Windows

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If you have a room with an unappealing view, try adding a wall mural to it offering something more interesting and pleasurable to look at. When you are lining out your mural design, you can make it as large or as small as you wish, and it will help to open up your space. Murals come in all shapes and sizes, so the only thing that limits your room design is your creativity. If you are at all artistic, you may want to try your hand at creating your own mural design.

Making a View with a Mural

If you have a room with no windows, you could create the illusion of a view by hanging a landscape painting on the wall. An acrylic painting can have any subject matter that you want whether it be a countryside or a city street. There are more paintings that you can fathom just waiting to add a view to your small, windowless room.

Employing Paintings to Design a Beautiful View

Metal wall hangings can also work to add to the illusion of light and thus, space, and this is particularly true of unique metal wall plaques that are embellished with mirrors. Adding smaller mirrors to a metal wall art plaque, you can create an artwork that is ever changing. By using wall sculptures, artwork with mirrors and shiny finishes in wall hangings, you can bring an easy, open feeling to even a very closed in room.

Iron Wall Accessories Bring Light to a Room

For windowless rooms or spaces that have no natural light, wall mirrors can demonstrate to be very beneficial. If you want to make a room be more open visually, hang some mirrors on the wall. You can also use wall mirrors to build the illusion of having windows in the room by hanging and framing them. By joining together the sides and then ends, you can give the appearance of four individual windows on your wall. To further the illusion you can add window hardware to your frame and even add window treatments to finish off the look. Adding another display to the opposite wall can make the room feel like it is visually spacious. The mirrors will actually bounce light around the room giving it the sense of being expansive. As a matter of fact, if you do not mention that you are missing windows in the room it is very likely that no one will notice. The same illusion can be made with hexagonal mirrors, though you may choose to skip the window dressing on these more interesting shaped mirror ‘windows’. Many small bathrooms do not have windows and would benefit from this type of mirror treatment.

Add a Little Light with Mirrors

Many people buy a home or rent an apartment just because of the terrific view. Even though you adore the new home you find, it is missing something. The home has no vista. Even with windows, if they are small or obstructed by something ugly, you can begin to get a feeling of being cut off from the world. Having a way to see outside of your own world manages to keep you connected to other people. There are ways that you can counter the effects of having no view in a room. With the right contemporary wall candle sconces and metal art wall hanging for your wall, you will hardly notice that blinking neon sign lurking outside.

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