If you’re untrained, enhancing a blank wall means painting it a color or hanging a piece of art. But if you’re an interior designer, you know that a blank wall is a vehicle for creating focus, one of the fundamentals of design. In the interior designer’s arsenal for addressing a blank wall there are two tried-and-true techniques: installing a gallery wall of framed art or applying wallpaper with a grand-scale pattern.
But recently we’ve added another technique to our toolbox: geometric applications of millwork. I’m not talking about the conventional wainscot, bead board, board and batten, and shiplap. But flat stock millwork applied geometrically to create focus while also adding two other fundamentals: pattern and texture. Below are perfect examples of this technique.
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