How to redesign your home easily with colors and art prints

Do you want to redesign your house, apartment, or just a room? We interviewed Charlotte Cannon (instagram @homeofcharl) - she is an interior styling and DIY pro.

As we absolutely love the mix of colors, art prints and cool interior accessories on her Instagram feed we have asked her about her favorite tips.

She gave us a wonderful insight into her interior world. Have a look and get inspired - it’s all about colors, walls, DIY and more!

Charlotte, we love your Instagram feed and the way you mix colors, art prints and interior accessories. What are your tips when it comes to wall colors?

I like to have a theme of colours across all my rooms, so I started off with a colour palette of greens, pinks, blues and yellows and decorated the rooms out from that colour palette.

It ensures you have consistency across the rooms in your home.
I usually keep to plain walls where I want to have lots of colourful decor and wall art and bolder walls where there is less decor.

I also incorporated painted ceilings to bring a bolder look in our living room and bedroom to give a cosy feeling to the rooms.

We love your gallery walls in your home! What are the steps to make it look great?

Thank you! I first mapped out my space on the computer and collected images of prints I liked to see how they would look together. I would use prints and wall art of different sizes to add interest.

Try to keep similar gaps between frames and if the prints are very colourful, I would use frames in one colour so that it does not look too busy.

If someone wants to upgrade their “apartment styling” what is an easy DIY - that you think can change a lot?

I would say removable wallpaper or paneling. Removable wallpaper is renter-friendly and can add a lot of personality quickly. Paneling is a fun DIY that can make a space look more expensive straight away and add some interest to your walls.

We love your kitchen :-) Could you tell us how to make a checkerboard in the kitchen?

It was removable wallpaper from Livettes Wallpaper, it took about 15 minutes to put up. You roll it out and use a squeegee to ensure there are no bubbles and use a stanley knife to cut the edges off.