Incorporate Travel Into Your Home Decor - 7 Interesting Ideas
/Your home is a space that is meant to be where you can rest easily and comfortably. At its core, your home is a reflection of the astonishing and vulnerable parts of you. It can also be the place where you display your passions and your interests.
Whether you're a seasoned traveller or slowly saving towards your goals, you need a home that can showcase your desires. What better way to immortalize your greatest travel bucket-list items or hits than within the confines of your home.
Let's incorporate travel into your home decor with seven interesting ideas.
Maps on the Wall
Maps are the easiest way to bring your travelogue to life. It has the potential to be a gorgeous statement piece.
You can invest in a metal-coated scratch-off map that you can scrape open once you’ve visited the location. Those maps make everything seem luxurious and sophisticated in their wake. If you’re looking for more creative ideas to bring your maps to life, you can always look at historical versions of maps. Hemisphere maps are an evergreen choice for map art.
Another version of map decor can be a photo printed typographical map mounted on a canvas. They bring your space to life and draw the eye.
Create a Gallery Walls
Gallery walls can be a brilliant idea to showcase art for your walls. A gallery wall with a treasure trove of travel memories can be a nostalgic and artful curation of your space. You can always personalize the space with different configurations or shapes on your wall.
You can always choose different accents for your gallery space with different colors, wood styles, metallics to make the room warmer and more inviting. One pro tip you can use is to make the frames neutral colored to emphasise the content of your photo prints.
Polaroid Display
If you're having trouble deciding what should go on the wall and not, this option means you don't have to choose. You can display them all!
You can go the traditional route with fairy lights. You can display them along the string of fairy lights with wooden clips. A variation on this theme can be designing patterns with the fairy lights to be a cute and boho look on your wall.
Another display idea can be using a wooden trip attached to the wall. You can add thin ropes evenly spaced to make a curtain of display photos.
Vintage Travel Posters
This can be a perfect complement to your wanderlust heart to collect vintage travel advertisements or vintage posters from different countries. If you can't get your hands on an original, you can get a custom canvas photo print from store.
Frame the image and arrange it on your wall for an inspiration corner in your room. You can also place it in fun asymmetrical patterns for an elevated look.
Pop Art Travel Photo
One way you can set your gallery apart from the rest is through pop art travel photos.
It's a unique way to combine your interests. Suppose you have a favorite movie. I'm sure you'll see a scenic view of the location. You can use these breathtaking panoramas as photo prints to grace your wall decor.
If you feel remarkably attached to the movie, you can always create a wall mural of the scene to stick to your living space.
It might be fun to get your friends and family to guess which movie the image comes from as well as the country’s location.
Photo Tile Arrangements
The idea itself is pretty simple. The execution is what can help you land this showstopper.
If you have a large selection of photos from your travels or places you want to visit, you can put them in a photo tile arrangement.
One requirement of such an arrangement is that the photos need to be of a similar size to look cohesive. Depending on the number of images, you can arrange them into configurations or shapes.
If you have an odd number of photos, you can be inspired to create a beautiful shape with the photo tiles.
Canvas Photo Wall
A canvas photo wall is an elegant addition to any home. If you choose to elevate your living space with select pieces of photos, you can't go wrong with a canvas print.
A canvas print is a beautiful blend of vibrancy and longevity. This means that your photo wall will remain as classic and timeless as you.
You can play with orientations like portrait or landscape photos. You can also choose to create a mosaic of a single image across different canvases. You can create a trip's worth of memories on various sized gallery walls.
So there you have it: the traveler's guide to home decor. Hopefully, it has given you some ideas for how to decorate your own home and sparked your wanderlust.
