Stripes painted on a wall have the ability to create an optical illusion that you can use to your advantage to make a ceiling look higher or a narrow room wider.
Home decorators don’t make as much use as they should of stripes painted on a wall. Even subtle stripes on a wall fool the eye without overpowering a room, so why not take advantage of this in certain rooms in the home such as a small bathroom or guest toilet, a cramped bedroom or nursery, or even a long, narrow room or passage that feels claustrophobic.
Stripes in a bathroom
Bathrooms are one room in the home that could definitely do with a striped wall or two. Horizontal stripes, even on a single wall, will give a compact bathroom the feeling of more space and vertical stripes lift up a low ceiling to make a bathroom feel more expansive than it really is. It’s the simple optical illusion that stripes provide that confuses the eye into thinking things that are not really true, but they do work and work well.
Stripes in a bedroom or nursery
In most homes, the arrival of a new addition means transforming a second or third bedroom into a nursery and these bedrooms are generally smaller in size. Painting stripes on a single wall, or installing striped wallpaper, lets you make the room feel larger in an easy way and also use colours that you have set your mind on for decorating the room.
A striped wall in a nursery or children’s bedroom is a fun way to introduce colour and a playful touch without it being overdone. Plus, you can choose a single colour or more to brighten up a room and still create the illusion of more space. Thin stripes, thick