Decorating with oil paintings can take your home’s style in nearly any direction you want it to go. While most people envision scenes of women with bonnets against the stark white shoreline with horse-drawn carriages off in the background, parasols do not have to be part of the basic motif. Just like any type of wall art décor, your home can be dressed up, dressed down, dressed out, and dressed randomly, depending on your own personal tastes, style, and desires. You don’t have to follow the logic that tells us oil paintings are good for uptown condo but inappropriate for the downtown flat.

Oil paintings have become a specific staple of art. Wall art décor had taken on a new flair and a whole new face. Oil paintings, for all their thick rich colors and their ability to capture the tiniest details, are also able to catch color without detail or wanderlust scenes or no scene at all. There are no limits to oil paintings today. In fact, when oil paintings began to merge with pop culture, a whole new genre of oil painting began to emerge. Now you can slap your walls with life art, abstract art, and classical modern paintings without breaking the bank and without having to render yourself to a style you don’t believe in.

When decorating with oil paintings, you can create a wonderful tone of consistency. By using oil paintings in every room in the house, you can set a tone of anything you wish while still meeting a standard of complete consistency. By using only oil paintings throughout the home, you bring your standard of consistency up one notch, which becomes regal in so many ways. It prevents clashing. Clashing happens (besides the obvious definition) when you believe the two elements match each other, and create a balance when in reality, they don’t. A watercolor for instance, and an oil painting, even if they are the exact same painting, will throw off the balance. Mixing muted colors with bold colors often has that effect. Wall art should provide a general sense of stability, especially on drab or otherwise unappealing walls. This stability can then reach down into your home, tie in furniture, accent pieces, and the basic stuff of life.

So much in our world has become digitized and computerized. The stores now carry a different form of artwork, computer generated art that is supposed to be so life like yet resembles a painting of extraordinary talent. But it is not art. It is a computer generated image created from lines which were created by ones and zeros. Art comes from the heart, the mind, the hand. When you are decorating with oil paintings you are decorating with genuine art. You are using your home as part of the canvas to create images and scenery that move the soul or speak to the spirit. That is why we are drawn to our favorite room to curl up with a book. That is definitely why we spend so much time and money and effort trying to find the right décor to fling throughout our homes, whether we own a mansion by the water or rent a one bedroom apartment in the city. It is our life. Wall décor and decorating with oil paintings bring our life into a clearer focus, give us images to encapsulate our feelings and what is most important to us, and then display it to ourselves and to those who are interested enough in us to visit our homes.