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What is a busy wall paper? It is a wallpaper that has many designs and colors. It is tricky to put decorations or wall hangings against a busy a busy wallpaper because if you don’t do it right, all of them will fight one another for attention and there will none that will caught the viewer’s eye.

The secret in hanging decorations against a busy wallpaper is in the framing. The art work that you would like to hang should have some of the neutral background color of the wallpaper. Then comes the frame. Choose a frame that gives a strong contrast with the wall papers’s color. It can be a match with your cabinets or the flooring. Use the background neutral color of the wallpaper as the top mat color and the fillet (1/4″ will do), any color from the image will do. The trick is to way oversize the wallpaper with the top mat. The top mat should be twice the amount and more matting should be place at the bottom of the of the picture. Your framer could help you with this. Having a wide matting will give a huge amount of plain area that will separate the busy wallpaper from the image aside from the contrasting frame color.

The overall finished size of the framed art should be in good proportion to the wall area where they are placed. To test the effect of the final work before committing, have your framer cut a matboard with the proposed size, put it over the image and hold it up the wall. See the whole effect if it will solve your problem.

Other accessorizing idea is to hang large metal wall-hanging sculptures that have a strong contrast in color from the wallpaper. You can “frame” it with a solid neutral color. Hang the frame first then position the sculpture in it. The key is to make the background generously larger that the art work.

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