Perhaps it’s time to change a few elements of your interior design. Without changing all the furniture, it’s possible to change the look of a room, and above all its atmosphere, simply by decorating the walls. Paintings are a good idea, and multi-panel models are original, especially when personalized…
How to choose your wall decoration in general?
There are 3 factors to take into account when choosing a multi-panel picture to match your wall and room:
- The style of your room: keep to the same style for perfect harmony, i.e. classic, modern, conservative, vintage, the space you have available…
- The space you have available: keep proportions in line with your wall and the size of your room.
- Your budget: frames can be very expensive, depending on material, size, finish…
What are the advantages of a multi-panel picture?
The multi-panel painting, or polyptych, is one of the finishing touches that should not be overlooked when it comes to wall decoration. It offers several advantages:
- It adds another dimension to your room.
- Express your creativity and personality.
- Show your difference from other people’s interiors.
- Refine your style by creating a common thread in your overall interior decoration of the room and your home.
- You’ll give your furniture a new dimension, in particular by enhancing it.
Of course, you’ll want to make sure your multi-panel picture is the right size for the wall you’ve chosen.
Personalize your multi-panel painting
What to put on this famous multi-panel picture? That’s the question! In the end, ideas are only limited by your imagination. For example, you could decide to include :
- Photos of your children, family and/or friends.
- Photos of your most memorable trip, or the dream destination you save up for every month.
- Photos of cities you’ve visited in different countries.
- Landscapes that make you want to escape every time you look at them.
- Decorative objects.
- Artists such as singers, actors, musicians…
In short, there are so many wall decorating ideas that you’ll need at least one triptych to show them off!
Which multi-panel picture to choose?
Now that you know more or less what you want to display on your wall, it’s time to define several important criteria for your future polyptych…
What shape for your multi-panel picture?
Multi-panel pictures come in a multitude of different models. Without listing them all, you can choose from :
- Diamond board: 5 panels, large in the middle and small on the sides.
- Waveboard: also 5 panels of equal size, arranged to create the effect of a wave.
- Diptych: 2 panels of identical size arranged side by side, with a greater or lesser space between them.
- Triptych: like the diptych model, but with 3 panels.
- Tableau 4 carrés: 4 square paintings form a square work.
- 9-square panel: 9 small panels are arranged to form a large square panel.
- Tableau svastika: this is a very interesting multi-panel tableau if you’re looking for originality in both form and photo combination. Play with 2 vertical panels, 2 horizontal ones and a square in the center.
- Mondrian picture: 15 panels make up this picture. The simplest and most harmonious choice seems to be a large photo, which is automatically cut into small strips, squares or rectangles of various sizes.
There are many other polyptych pictures, and the best thing to do is to visit a site specializing in this kind of offer to see the choice available to you.
What size for your multi-panel painting?
Next, you’re supposed to know the overall height and width of your decoration that you want to display on your wall. To do this, you’ll need to take into account the size of your wall and other elements in the room, as well as its volume.
Photos or writings for your multi-panel picture?
Writing
A polyptych with writing reveals a certain charm. A poem on one panel, a quotation on another, all in the font, color and size of your choice – it’s sure to be original!
One or more photos
Specialized sites provide their customers with a media library, but between you and me, since this is a personalized multi-panel board, you might as well go all the way and import your own photos! Of course, you can see the result live, and adjust the size or positioning of the pictures to suit your taste.
You can usually save your creation. This way, you take the time to fine-tune your masterpiece by coming back to it several times. Once you’ve finished, you send the result to your order. All you have to do is pay and wait about 10-15 days for the craftsman to get to work.
You probably want to know the price of a multi-panel painting. It’s very difficult to answer, given the variety of customization modules available. They can range from a few dozen euros to several hundred. The best way to find out is to create your own board!
