When you decide to decor your bathroom wall, you may want to bring unique ideas to your space. I can suggest application of cactus that are either as real plant or decorative pattern as the main decoration element in your bathroom.
These 7 creative ideas will help you remodel your bathroom decor on any budget with varying inspirations and cost.
The basic design principle of bathroom wall decoration
To manage an aesthetic bathroom-wall design with cacti decors, you need to create a harmony of all elements in order and pleasant combination. In other words, the elements you use in design shouldn’t destroy the harmony and proportions.
There are horizontal and vertical proportions in any wall design. The vertical divisions are the architectural elements such as the door, windows, and furniture, whereas the horizontal partitions are the décor elements such as the tiles, paint and grout.
In a harmonious design there are several design principles that constrain these two proportions fall into imbalance. Although some authors mention more elements that I will emphasise here, I go with the basic seven design rules that you can use to create an aesthetic decor.
There are 7 design principles to make these proportions in balance.
1- Focal point or emphasis on the part of wall
2- Repetition of the patterns or elements
3- Contrast on the wall
4- Unity of the design
5- Hierarchy in the layout
6- Rhythm or movement of the elements
7- Variety in the decor
1- Focal point or emphasis on the part of wall
The elements are rarely uniform most of the time. The idea is to achieve a harmony in design is to balance them that some have more emphasis while others have less attention. Making one item or group would be dominant to others create space in the wall.
The easiest way to understand the emphasis is via dimension. The bigger or larger item dominates the smaller ones. However, you have other design parameters in creating an accent wall. You should have empty space on the wall without any element or furniture and make sure that the other side has a larger item such as storage or pattern on the wall or color to create a focal point.
The situation is the same in color arrangements. In such arrangements, sovereignty should be ensured based on the superiority of any of the hot and cold color groups. If you consider warm colors as the dominant, cool colors should occupy less of a surface in the field of view than warm colors.
2- Repetition of the patterns or elements
When you repeat the same single element on the wall, the distance between them forms a proximity thus the harmony. For instance, within the topic of this blog, if a wall paper or wall mural repeats cacti patterns, you create a repetition on the large wall.
The easiest way to create a design repetition on the bathroom wall is to duplicate the whole cacti element within the same distance apart. However you can use the same cacti with minor differences such as orientation, shape, color.
Turning the cactus in different angles creates more interest since you have the chance for more dynamic designs. If you use the same pattern in an endless manner, you may end into a boring and dull project. So, these minor changes in the repeat pattern allow vitality to the design.
3- Contrast on the wall
When there is not any common or similar properties between the elements, it is difficult to create a unity between them. The differences create a chaos and friction. However, if you set the elements in opposition to show the differences, you created a contrast in your wall design.
For your design you can use different concepts and criteria such as color, size, shape, texture, orientation etc. that will create endless options for a contrast theme. In a simple design you can place a cacti in front of a pink or reddish wall that it creates vitality in the space.
4- Unity of the design
Unity means that you find common or approximate sides between two or three dimensional objects. Having common or close sides of the objects increases the possibility of their compatibility. Since it prepares the ground for easy correlation between objects; Compliance facilitates the creation of the design.
The compatibility between the objects can be in terms of any or more of their shapes, sizes, colors, values and textures. In addition, it is possible to create conformity with the directions of the objects and their spacing.
When you group elements by function such as towels in the bathroom, you create unity by function. The same elements create different unity by style, dimension, shape and style.
5- Hierarchy in the layout
The hierarchy is the order that connects two contrasting parameter at both edges on a line. For instance if you place a plant pod starting with the smallest to the biggest, you create a hierarchy that provides an orderly transition. There are three types of hierarchy, depending on where the order originates: First, the axial; second the central and third the peripheral hierarchy.
The parameters are size, dimension, color, texture and many others. The contrast between the two extremes can be in many ways, not just in one way. For instance, both the shape and size of the two ends may be different, or it is possible that there are differences, between the two ends in terms of value, texture, color, and size.
Regardless of the difference between the two extremes, the shapes located between the two extremes should always provide transition in regular steps in a way to reduce this difference and not distort the sequence. There are many examples of hierarchy in nature, for instance the movement of the moon from crescent to full moon and from full moon to crescent moon is the most well-known sequence.
6- Rhythm or movement of the elements
The alternative recurring alternations of items you use in the design creates a rhythm. By installing a pattern by the arrangements of the items in a certain rule, you produce your rhythm and create a movement in order.
In dictionary, one definition of rhythm is also a measured movement that without any quantity you ended in random art work. The three cactus pot placed with a 10 or 20 cm distance is more likely produce a rhythm than a random place on your bathroom shelf.
7- Variety in the decor
When you create commonality with a number of parameters of the elements, you have the option of a variety in your design that having common, close sides or contrasting properties of the objects increases the possibility of the compatibility of any design.
You can choose any design rules you that I explained here. However, I advise to choose them in a wise way. If you try to use almost all of them, you ended with over design of a wall or any design. In fact, if you opt to create a balanced design, you can pick 2 or 3 design principles that you read here. That way they won’t make worsen your design.