Wall art doesn’t have to be a traditional landscape painting or even a vintage poster you picked up at a market stall, wall art is anything you do to your walls to create and finish a decorating style, and make sure your home reflects your personality, makes you feel at home and welcomes your guests.

So you probably don’t consider wallpaper as wall art, but wallpaper has come a long way from the orange candy stripes you remember from your grandparents’ home, and you can now make your wallpaper as individual, modern and colorful as you and the rest of your home. You can even choose textured wallpaper such as bamboo wallpaper which actually looks like small individual sticks of bamboo adorning your walls – great for a sun room or a feature wall in a lounge room.

Wallpapering is also easier than ever with advances being made in self adhesive paper so there is no messy glue to deal with when redecorating. So now you are free to choose the color, style and pattern which best suits you and your home, and if you don’t find it right away, keep looking because there is such a wide range you are sure to find something you fall in love with.

And it is important you do feel this way about your new wallpaper because just like wall art, you have to look at it every day, but unlike wall art, you can’t just take your wallpaper down and put it in the spare room.

But if wallpapering still sounds like a big change to make, why not choose just a feature wall or even a border of wallpaper for your home. Feature walls are popular when painted in a different colour to the rest of the room, but a wallpaper feature wall will make an impact like no paint can.

Or you can coordinate the colours and patterns of the wallpaper to the existing paint and furniture if you don’t want to make a drastic change, and create a border around one wall or the whole room. So don’t be afraid that wallpaper will turn you into your mother, because it is actually one of the easiest and most stylish changes you can make in your decorating project.