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From clever paint techniques to top wallpapers, read on 17 featured wall ideas to upgrade ordinary walls.

Featured walls can be one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to transform your home, and there are countless options, from simple paint or wallpaper, to clever use of tiles or walls, you can adapt the feature wall to suit you Family and budget.

Featured walls are a great way to highlight the most interesting architectural details in your home, highlight the height of the room, or take full advantage of natural light. Creating feature walls with modular shelves is a great way to increase storage capacity. If you want to broaden your palette, you can implement clever color blocks, or use feature walls to create partition effects.

Focus on areas of the home that look a bit boring, awkward corners that cannot be decorated with accessories, or prominent natural features, such as fireplaces or niches-these are great opportunities to introduce colors and patterns to feature walls in unexpected ways .

Continue reading 17 feature wall ideas to get you started...

A wallpaper with thousands of Instagram posts—Little Greene’s super popular Massingberd Blossom wallpaper is a ready-made feature wall. It is based on popular cool green and is decorated with hand-painted flowers.

Buy Now: Massingberd Blossom Wallpaper by Little Greene

The fun of the gallery wall is that it makes personality shine. Some people like things that are neat and unified, and some people like the mess that doesn't match the collage. Either way, it is a functional wall that can continue to develop according to your taste.

Buy now: Belle Line Prints from House Beautiful Marketplace

If you like the idea of ​​creating a characteristic wall with exposed plaster — and who doesn’t like all the textures and soft pink tones — consider making it with plaster-effect wallpaper, such as our House Beautiful Storm plaster wallpaper from Homebase.

Buy now: House Beautiful Storm Plaster Pink wallpaper and House Beautiful glazed cup series, both at Homebase

Unique and extremely simple functional wall solution. These individual slats can be easily cut to fit arches or awkward corners, and they are available in six wood finishes.

Buy now: Slatwall personal slats by Nature Wall

A classic feature wall idea-exposed bricks can set the color palette of the room, with red-orange and dark brown tones. We like the idea of ​​using these shades on modern striped rugs.

Buy now: Carpetright's House Beautiful Soho Striped Rug

These glossy tiles from Porcelain Superstore add character to the kitchen. We like the matching grout that makes the pearly pink stand out. This style of tiles can also be used as a splash guard behind the stove to create miracles.

Buy now: Roxy Pink Tiles from Porcelain Superstore

This is a wonderful samurai and geisha wallpaper produced by MINDTHEGAP, depicting the vibrant traditional Japanese characters emerging from the night forest. This design is very suitable for small spaces or niches, and it uses paste-wall technology, which is very easy for DIY applications.

Buy now: Samurai and Geisha Wallpaper by Lime Lace

Probably the simplest feature wall on our list-these Umage Eos Up Feather wall lights look like fluffy clouds when installed on a wall or ceiling. They are particularly eye-catching against the colorful painted background.

Buy now: Umage Eos Up feather wall lamp by Sweetpea & Willow

'With the infinite combinations available, among timeless materials such as walnut, ash and oak, the String shelf opens up a series of possibilities for design options, so you can make a statement or even create a piece of work you want Said Bo Hellberg, Chief Marketing Officer of String Furniture.

Buy now: String's modular shelving

Renovate ordinary bathroom walls by adding painted cladding. The wooden cladding adds a touch of modern farmhouse, which is especially useful if you own a modern house without interesting architectural details.

Buy Now: Euphorbia Paint Collection in Paint & Paper Library

The extra idea for the fifth wall is the ceiling. We love the dramatic juxtaposition of the modern geometric details of this DFS bedroom with the gorgeous chandelier.

Buy now: Liberty bed by DFS

Use your tiles to be creative and go beyond the usual two tones. This is an ingenious way to introduce art into the bathroom-and it is completely splash-proof.

Buy now: Dix Blue by Farrow & Ball

This simple feature wall idea is very suitable for those with limited space or tenants who cannot make permanent design changes. Choose the XL tilting mirror on the mantelpiece or standing on the floor-it will give you the illusion of more space and reflect natural light around your room.

Buy now: Crest Top Mirror by Graham & Green

The oversized statement art can be said to be the fastest and easiest way to realize the feature wall. A mature gallery wall, abandoning the chaos and chaos of the actual gallery wall, and replacing it with something simpler but equally influential.

Buy now: Luxeology's large tropical parrot mural

This feature wall is a clever way of color blocks. If you can't just decide on one, then using a palette of three to four complementary colors is a good excuse.

Buy now: Little Green's Dorchester Pink Scale

Wall panels can really change the room, add some visual interest, frame characteristic furniture and introduce magnificent elements. Check out our super easy tutorial to create DIY wall panels.

Buy now: Buy the beautiful Maisy Ottoman bed at Dreams

This ingenious two-tone color provides a dramatic backdrop to highlight characteristic furniture and makes the most of natural light by contrasting with a strip of orange paint-this is for bold decorators.

Buy now: Carpetright's House Beautiful Soho Striped Rug

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