Have a blank wall that needs to be filled?  Looking for simple and easy artwork ideas for your home?  Here are seven wall ideas for the living room including a raised panel wall, oversized artwork, a plate wall and many more.

Please tell me your walls give you attitude.

You know.

There’s a wall that’s blank and then you find some art and try to put it on the wall and then it’s too small or too colorful or not colorful enough or just isn’t right and you shake your head and sigh and search Pinterest for ideas but you keep coming up short.  And then?  Every time you walk by the wall?  It gives you sass.

Kind of like it thinks it’s still in high school.

If this has ever happened to you, please come sit by me.

I get it.

I understand.

I’m the one who decorated the big blank walls in the living room FOUR times until I got it right. When I posted the dining room faux plaster walls you al loved it so much I thought it might be fun to post some other wall-decorating ideas.

For all the sassy rooms on the planet, I have some suggestions.

Here are seven wall ideas for the living room.

Raised panel wall

I created this wall for the gatehouse years ago and it’s still one of my favorites EVER and painted this with SW Coral Reef.  I’m actually thinking about creating something kind of similar going up the stairs in this house.

You can see the room here.

And the DIY on how to create this wall here.

You could also create the same look with picture frames or even a group of different kinds of picture frames that weren’t all square.  The key to making this look work is painting the frames and the wall the same color.

Shiplap wall with shelving

This wall started out as just a blank wall in the beach house.

It’s been my room every summer since I wore pigtails in my hair.

We created this shiplap wall and added shelving and then we came back and created an entire headboard around it. Seeing this room makes me so excited for this summer and the beach.

And if this wall looks overwhelming?

The project is really easier than it looks.

You can see the entire project here.

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Peel and stick wallpaper

See this tiny alcove in the beach bedroom?

It needed pop.

It needed personality.

It needed to stand up and be counted.

Even though it’s a small space it now lives big.

And all I did was add peel and stick wallpaper that I ordered off Amazon.

You can see the wallpaper here.

Graphic plate wall

Those other ideas?  They will probably take you a weekend.

This living room wall idea?

It will take you a hot minute.

All you need are plates and one of those wall graphics from the craft store.

See the entire DIY here.

Quote wall with picture ledges

This blank wall idea is seriously SO CUTE and so versatile.

You can create this look with simple wood picture frame ledges that you make yourself (see the DIY here).

Or you can just buy picture frame ledges from Target and create your own.

The thing I love about this project is that IT FILLS UP THE WALL.

And it makes you look extra philosophical, too.

Add cabinet doors to the wall

This is the wall that I talked about at the beginning of the post.

This is the wall I decorated four times.

First, I created this grid of book pages.

Then, I pressed flowers from the yard and hung them up in a grid.

Next, I created a giant piece of artwork from different pieces of art framed.

And then?

I found this idea.

The BEST trash to treasure project.

Square panel wall and slanted ceiling

All the other ideas have been about the walls—but this idea is even more next level.

It decorates the ceiling, too.

This is the room I decorated for my mother. It’s one of her guest bedrooms.

We created this paneled wall that extends all the way up to the slanted ceiling.

You can see the entire project here.

I hope you found an idea you can use.

I hope you decorate your walls with joy.

But most of all?  I hope your walls don’t give you any more sass.

I wouldn’t want them to be grounded.

PS  Do you have any fun wall decorating ideas you’ve used?

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