Make your home cosy with art - Our Top Ten Tips
How to make your home cosy with art
A cozy home is one that feels welcoming, comfortable and warm. Bare walls can feel like the opposite of that, hence our first tip is to hang some art, anything at all, in you home. Start piece by piece and slowly build up your art collection as you go. Luckily there is no shortage of ideas of what to display on your walls to make your home feel more cosy.
Cosy Wall Art Ideas - top 10 tips:
Abstract art - in warm comforting and calming colours.
Nature themed art - celebrating the abundance of nature & the beauty of the animal kingdom.
Luscious patterns - William Morris, Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco patterns.
Trees - with colourful autumn leaves, lush greens or even bare winter branches in snow.
Dark & eclectic - art that is a little bit witchy, moody, intriguing and strange.
Moody skies - cloudscape art with heaps of atmosphere, textures, colours and details.
Moon & night sky - prints of the full moon, star constellations and celestial maps.
All things green: botanical posters, emerald green leaves and plant posters.
Vintage - art from charity shops, antique shops, or even free digital downloads.
Texture - paintings full of mark making, art using rustic natural materials and textures.
Cosy art themes - Let’s dive in!
Abstract Art
For abstract art choose colours that comforts and warms, such as browns, reds, oranges and yellows. You might want to go for brown timber tones or warm honey yellows. Art is a great way to incorporate colour with accessories in your home and create a cohesive feel.
Nature themed art
The beauty in nature with its seasonal changes have fascinated artists throughout the ages. Tranquil seascapes, open landscapes with rolling hills or enchanted forests full of mushrooms, the list is endless. Perhaps look to the animal kingdom with all its wonders and beauty. Themes such as harvest and seasonal changes are great cosy decor topics. Consider art depicting local parks, forest or woodlands, or if you live near the coast maybe take inspiration from the sea. Dramatic landscape paintings make lovely focal points for living room walls, and calmer serene scene works well for bedrooms.
Luscious Patterns
Take inspiration from William Morris patterns, the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau and Art Deco patterns. Choose art with flowing lines of flower stalks, vine tendrils, and other nature inspired elements found in the Art Nouveau movement. For symmetrical, geometric and more streamlined patterns look to Art Deco.
Trees
Trees in art can act as symbols of growth and revival. Trees can symbolise many different things in a painting depending on how they are depicted. Trees in a dark and mysterious forest, a lone tree on a desolate field, or sunbeams through leaves, all tell different stories. Choose paintings of colourful forests, lush greens or even moody artworks of bare winter trees. Whatever suits the style of the room!
Dark & eclectic
Choose dark and eclectic wall art to create an intimate and enclosed feel. Take inspiration from a variety of styles from different sources, combine them in a gallery wall displays and create a collection of artworks that are a little bit witchy, moody, intriguing and strange.
Moody skies
Gathering storm-clouds, soft pale pastel cloudscapes, misty skies with a hint of the sun, towering rainclouds, or a blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds, there is no shortage of inspiring artworks depicting the sky and its changeable weather. For a cosy feeling choose moody sky artworks with heaps of atmosphere, textures, colours and details.
The Moon & the Night Sky
The Moon has inspired artists throughout history. Our celestial companion acts like a reminder that we live on a tiny planet in a vast universe. A full moon in a dramatic dark night sky, scatted with stars, might inspire wonder and intrigue about our lunar neighbour, or even the wider universe. Night sky themes are perfect for bedroom walls. Choose paintings of the full moon, lunar phases or maps of the stars in the night sky.
All Things Green
Green is often described as a refreshing and tranquil colour and according to colour psychology, can help put people at ease, maybe due to it association with nature and forests. The colour green can bring to mind thoughts of lush grasses, trees, and forests. Leafy, botanical and plant prints are a great choice to create that tranquil feeling in your home. Vegetable or herb posters will look particularly nice on kitchen walls.
Vintage
Vintage art is eco-friendly, unique and a great way of creating a cosy home. The patina, textures and muted colours of vintage art lends itself perfectly to creating a warm cosy feeling. A mix of old vintage artworks and more contemporary pieces will make an interesting galley-wall display. Old school posters of fungi will look lovely on kitchen walls, a vintage victorian landscape painting might sit nicely over a fireplace in the living room. Vintage pieces can be displayed in any room of you home, even bathrooms.
Texture
Texture isn’t just for fabrics, but also perfect for wall art. Mixed media artworks are a great choice for interesting textures. For art prints, choose ones that use mark making as part of its visual creation, with clearly visible brushstrokes and paint splashes forming part of the artwork. Look at other textures in your home and choose art that goes with what you already have. Lighting on textured artworks can create interesting contrasts and shadows.
Where can I buy cosy wall art?
Etsy
Charity & Antique Shops
Local Maker's Markets or Craft Fairs
Artists own websites
Digital Download Art
Etsy is probably the best option for sourcing cosy art, and a great way of supporting small businesses and local artists. Most art themes can be found in abundance on Etsy, as well as very specific niche themes. Small businesses and makers can also be much quicker at picking up new trends, for example: cottagecore and dark academia was popular on Etsy well before it made it in to high-street shops. For vintage art try local charity or antique shops, as well as online marketplaces and auction websites. Visit a local maker's market or craft fair. Local markets are also a perfect place to pick up business cards from artists, to order art from their own websites. Many artists offer instant digital download art to print at home. If you have your own printer, this is also a great option for vintage art, with lots of free downloads available.
Cosy wall art aesthetics - these keyword will help when looking for cosy art:
Cottagecore Art
Dark Academia Aesthetic
Light Academia Aesthetic
Celestial Aesthetic Wall Art
Fairycore or Goblincore
Dark Witch Aesthetic
Grandmillenial Aesthetic
Bohemian Style
Coastal Grandmother Aesthetic
Here is a curated collection of cosy prints from our shop. Make a start on your art collection today!
