The IXXI inspiration blog
Room by room, shape by shape, and with your own photos. Not a stream of inspiration, but one article per question an empty wall raises.
- Trends
Wall decoration trends 2027: three directions
Our trendwatchers spend the year looking at interiors: in fair halls, in homes, in what people do with their own walls. For 2027 that comes down to three directions, and the striking part is that none of them has to give way to another. - Home tip
Bedroom wall art: keeping a wall quiet
The bedroom is the one room where decoration has a job to do: it must not keep you awake. That sounds odd, but it explains why an image that looks wonderful in the living room can feel busy above a bed. - Home tip
Bathroom wall art: the barest wall in the house
The bathroom is usually the last room to get any attention. Tiles, a mirror, maybe a plant — and otherwise a blank wall. Which is a shame, because you start and end every day in it. - Home tip
Decorating a kids room: wall art that grows along
A child’s room is the room that changes fastest. What hangs above the cot at six months is out of date by the time its occupant has opinions. And it is still hanging there. - Home tip
Garden wall art: which image holds its own outdoors
Indoors your wall art hangs against a plain wall, in even light, and is the most interesting thing in view. Outdoors none of that is true: there it competes with real leaves, real sky and light that shifts all day. - Home tip
Decorating a coffee corner: what goes on the wall?
A coffee corner is usually not a room but a stretch of worktop: the machine, a few mugs and a wall behind it. That wall is the only thing left to do something with, and it is also the part almost nobody considers. - Home tip
Outdoor wall art: garden, balcony and terrace
An empty outdoor wall is a waste. The garden wall, the side of a shed, the panel along a balcony — that is exactly what you look at all summer, and exactly where nothing usually hangs. - Shape and size
Creative ways to hang wall art: seven shapes
Most people hang wall art centred above the sofa and leave it there. Fair enough — but it is not the only option, and certainly not with a system made of loose cards you click into whatever shape you like. - Shape and size
Large wall art: how big can it go?
With a poster or a print you choose from sizes somebody else decided. Not with an IXXI: the format grows with the number of cards, and the wall is the limit. - Material
Double-sided wall art: two styles in one
The cards of an IXXI can be printed on both sides. Which means one IXXI, two designs, and turning it over whenever you feel like it. - Material
An alternative to wallpaper
Wallpaper does something a poster cannot: it covers a whole wall. It is also the most final decision in a room. You measure, you cut, you paste — and then it is there. - Make your own
Custom wall art from an existing collection
Picking a design and then deciding for yourself what it becomes on the wall is not a special service here. It is the standard — for an IXXI built from your own photos, and for every design already in the collection. - Make your own
Photos for a photo collage: what to watch for
A photo on your phone has one job: to look good on a phone screen. A photo in a photo collage has more to do. It ends up hanging beside dozens of others, and it gets printed.
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