Your living room design isn’t complete after picking out the basic elements and furniture. It is the decor that is the finishing touches that complete the room. What you choose to put on the wall should be an expression of you, your family, your home’s style, and your chosen design theme.

Get inspired by these living room wall decor ideas and pick out the perfect pieces for your walls.

1. Modern Living Room Wall Decor Ideas

Modern wall decor turns the wall into the decor. This reduces the number of items that are hung on the wall and helps to keep in line with the clean aesthetic that is modern design. You can turn your wall into decor by creating a custom wood paneling design. Perhaps you use wood trim to create geometric shapes.

Another option is to cover the wall with a minimal wallpaper, such as one that mimics marble, stone, or wood. This adds texture and visual interest to the room without adding clutter or items. You can then hang a large decorative mirror in the middle of the wall space. Now you have a way of increasing the light and visual space of the room.

For the ultimate in modern design, look for ways to incorporate light or other technology into the wall. You can have a slightly raised panel with LED lights underneath. They’ll emit a soft glow emanating from the wall to create a comfortable lighting theme and add depth to the room. Or hide speakers in the wall for the ultimate surround sound experience.

2. Embracing Rustic Charm

If you want rustic decor, try some DIY wall art ideas. You can make handwoven baskets to hang on the wall. Or arrange flowers in a hand-thrown clay vase. Mount floating shelves made from reclaimed wood. Another idea is hanging salvaged or reclaimed window frames.

Keep in mind that not everything needs to look old and beat up to work as decor in a rustic living room. You can have vintage candlesticks arranged on your fireplace or intricately carved wooden sculptures set on a shelf or mounted on the wall.

If you appreciate traditional art forms, why not hang a painting or photograph of the local countryside? Maybe these are wide open fields, majestic mountains, or even the seaside. These can be well-done pieces of art that reflect the type of farmhouse or rustic lifestyle you’re trying to emulate.

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3. Ideas for Decorating Large Spaces

If you have high ceilings, then embrace them. You’re lucky enough to have plenty of wall space to spread out and get creative. In most cases, you’ll also have plenty of floor space to stand back and admire the entire wall.

Follow the advice of most large wall decor ideas by decorating up the wall. Unlike walls with lower ceilings, don’t focus on hanging pieces at eye level. You’ll want to hang larger pieces that go almost all of the way up the wall.

One way to do this is by choosing a vertically oriented or portrait piece. These are designed to be taller and will work with the height of the room. If you can’t find anything tall enough, consider hanging multiple pieces. Just be sure they work together to create a cohesive look.

These pieces don’t need to match exactly, but there should be some sort of theme or connection to all of them.

4. Elevating Elegance

Elegant living rooms often feature expensive high-end art. But not all of us have the budget for a piece of artwork that costs thousands of dollars.

You can create the same feeling of elegance by taking a more affordable piece of art and putting it in an expensive frame. The frame may cost you a couple of hundred dollars, but that’s still better than the several thousand that expensive art will cost.

Another way you can give the feeling of elegance is by turning your light fixtures into artwork. Instead of boring and plain wall sconces, you can have metal sculptures with illumination peeking out from behind.

Get rid of the boring ceiling light and replace it with a stunning and ornate chandelier that gracefully hangs over your coffee table. You could complete the look with a small sculpture on the coffee table. Try mixing more expensive smaller pieces with affordable larger pieces to have the right amount of decor while still looking elegant.

5. Captivating Canvas Decor

The canvas is the original material for artwork. Throughout time, painters created one-of-a-kind masterpieces on this fabric. By choosing a piece of art on canvas, you’re giving your walls artistic authenticity.

Scale your canvas to the wall. The larger your wall, the larger the artwork should be. Choose a piece that’s too small, and it will look like it’s randomly floating on the wall. Choose a piece that’s too big, and it will feel cramped.

It helps to choose an orientation that matches the wall. So a lower ceiling and a long wall will work well with a landscape portrait. A narrow space with a tall ceiling will work better with a portrait-oriented piece.

If your wall is especially large and you don’t want to settle on a single piece, consider hanging multiple pieces. You can create your own gallery wall. Try to hang the canvases with balance both horizontally and vertically. You can have them offset so that they look randomly arranged. Also, consider lining them up in perfect rows and columns.