{"id":419,"date":"2014-06-20T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T21:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2016-08-24T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T09:17:45","slug":"cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Strategies for Choosing Cheap Canvas Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s increasingly common for people to approach a modest or casual redesign of their home on their own without hiring a professional. When you\u2019re not truly renovating \u2013 not pulling down walls and running new infrastructure like plumbing \u2013 it really does boil down to your visual taste and ability to put things together. Some of us have an innate talent for that, and some of us just know how to please ourselves and don\u2019t care if others think our taste a bit wonky. In either scenario, a DIY approach is perfectly workable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1364 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/app\/uploads\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-different-colour-prints.jpg\" alt=\"cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-different-colour-prints\" width=\"650\" height=\"390\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-different-colour-prints.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-different-colour-prints-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-different-colour-prints-150x90.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 650px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 650\/390;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One aspect of a DIY redesign that often frustrates people is the art on the walls: Budget tells them to go with something affordable, their heart tells them to go for something dramatic. And while it doesn&#8217;t take a genius to follow those opposing instincts directly to cheap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/\">canvas prints<\/a> as the ideal of both desires, that\u2019s where many people get stuck: How do even begin to choose art? Art isn&#8217;t just colour and shape, it says something about you personally \u2013 who you are and who you aspire to be. To avoid being intimidated by this decision, you need a strategy. Here are a few design strategies to get your project moving again.<\/p>\n<h2>Follow the Colour<\/h2>\n<p>One strategy for choosing cheap canvas prints is to follow the colour you&#8217;ve already chosen for the room \u2013 or to go the other way around. If you know the palette you\u2019ll be using on the walls and in the fabrics, you can go to a source of images like ours and find images that match up with that palette \u2013 or contrast with it \u2013 and let your heart make the choice.<\/p>\n<p>Or, reverse that \u2013 start off by choosing an image and then choose the room\u2019s colour palette around that. There\u2019s no rule that states you have to leave your wall art choices until last \u2013 flip the script and start there instead. In fact, why not choose a famous painting to generate your room\u2019s palette &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/designshack.net\/articles\/inspiration\/10-free-color-palettes-from-10-famous-paintings\/\">here\u2019s a great article on that for inspiration<\/a> &#8211; and then use that painting or one in the same palette as your artwork?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1365 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/app\/uploads\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-earth-sun.jpg\" alt=\"cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-earth-sun\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-earth-sun.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-earth-sun-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies-earth-sun-150x99.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 650px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 650\/433;\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Follow the Visuals with Cheap Canvas Prints<\/h2>\n<p>Colour is always just one part of the story. The other part of your design is the theme, the images. Sometimes this is very obvious and purposefully front-and-centre \u2013 like when you walk into a beach house and everything has a seashell theme. Sometimes it\u2019s so subtle it might as well not exist.<\/p>\n<p>If your theme is front-and-centre, your wall art should be too. Designing a little boy\u2019s room with a space or science fiction theme? Images of spaceships and planets are perfect. Even if your theme is a little more subtle, you can follow the visuals: A room designed to resemble the bed and breakfast you stayed in on your honeymoon can use images of the country or town you were in, famous landmarks you visited, or just allusions to your activities, like beach scenes or mountain vistas \u2013 or, of course, your own holiday photos transformed into amazing prints.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever strategy you choose to follow in your DIY design, as long as you include your choice of images in your thinking it will all come together in the end and make a powerful statement. And when you know the images you want to use on your walls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\">click here and we\u2019ll be delighted to make them for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s increasingly common for people to approach a modest or casual redesign of their home on their own without hiring a professional. When you\u2019re not truly renovating \u2013 not pulling down walls and running new infrastructure like plumbing \u2013 it really does boil down to your visual taste and ability to put things together. Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/cheap-canvas-prints-design-strategies\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canvas-wall-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}