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Tips for Decorating Slanted/Angled Walls

Tips for Decorating Slanted/Angled Walls
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Slanted walls can make a room feel cozy, but they can also be challenging to decorate. For instance, hanging artwork from a slanted wall presents the additional difficulty of securing all four corners. Fortunately, you can hang photos or anything else you desire from a slanted wall to make your home feel like your own with a few simple tactics.

What is the meaning of a slanted wall?

In order to withstand the horizontal pressure caused by the retaining material, slanted walls with a trapezoidal shape are built. For castles and similar constructions, walls are battered to provide fortification. The house's décor is enhanced by the sloped walls.

Slanted walls can only be configured at an angle of -90 to 90 degrees. The result will be strange-looking if the values are high. On walls with a slope of less than 45 degrees, slanted walls are most frequently used.

How to decorate your slanted walls

Choose a canopy-style bed

Sloped ceilings can make a room appear and feel quite small, but design tricks can make that look and feel disappear. If possible (which is why it's crucial to measure), a canopy bed gives the appearance that the room is taller, drawing the eye upward.

Build a small gallery wall

In a tiny room, especially one with slanted walls, hanging art can be quite difficult. A small gallery wall should be your primary concern instead. Instead of leaving this sloping wall empty, the artwork serves as a focal point.

Contrasting colors

A sloped wall can be made more even by using color blocking in contrasting colors. You can use a color blending method, stripes, or geometric patterns. Because of the tilt, it may be utilized to highlight the wall and widen the room. To make the wall blend in and still appear like an appropriate element of the area, you can stick with the colors used in the rest of the room. However, if you don't want the room to feel tight and dark, you should probably choose bright or pale colors.

Replace drapery with shades

Window curtains, especially in a room with slanted walls, are a guaranteed method to expand a little bedroom. The abundance of natural light will make the space appear larger and is a beautiful way to highlight your decor. Forget about curtain panels or blinds when using a bed as a window seat and use a straightforward shade instead to let in as much natural light as you can.

Consider a single-pendant light

It's crucial to get the correct lighting for a small bedroom with sloping walls, perhaps in an attic that has been converted. For instance, floor lighting will occupy too much room. Because of this, choosing a pendant light is a good idea because it takes up little space, draws the eye upward to give the impression of height, and doesn't take up any important floor space.

Hang a few indoor plants

Designing around slanted walls naturally leaves you with very little room. That implies that there won't be much space for home furnishings, such as the indoor plants you adore placing in each room of the house. While using plant stands may not be an option, you can artistically hang greenery from a sloped ceiling.

Installing a skylight

Want to make the most of the natural light that enters your slanted wall bedroom? Purchase a skylight. All that light will appear to open up the space and draw the attention upward and away from the cramped area, in addition to being a fantastic way to enjoy the night sky. The cost of the feature will increase, but the outcome will be well worth it.

Use graded shelves

You may think that a bedroom with a slanted ceiling cannot have bookshelves. It's false. Include custom-graded shelving as an alternative; this means that the shelves will follow the slope and get shorter at certain heights.

Hang up a tapestry

Another technique to bring the attention upward in a bedroom with sloped walls is using a tapestry. By carefully measuring, you may choose one that will fit your slanted wall space and immediately produce a cool design moment.

Switch to shiplap

Shiplap is a classic choice for any room, but it excels in one with sloping walls because it takes up no floor area while still adding a lovely decorative element.

Include wooden beams

Wooden beams are a great option if you want to add more visual appeal to your sloped ceiling. They won't take up much extra space and will just provide a little amount of visual interest.

Final word

As it turns out, designing bedrooms with slanted walls has advantages. The architecture is distinctive and anything but boring. Additionally, it provides a tight and comfortable quality that can occasionally be missed in rising settings. The secret to decorating a space with slanted walls is to use your imagination. Be imaginative. Most importantly, embrace the slanted ceiling rather than attempting to ignore it or work around it.