topic Re: Feature Walls in Home

Feature Walls

Desert Lily — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:49:48 GMT

You've seen them on TV home shows and in online home magazines ... Feature Walls.

They create interest and are the focus of the room.

Feature walls might include designs made of wood, tile, stone, wallpaper, a painted design, or other textured materials. They can be quite creative & unique.

But, I'm wondering what will happen to the feature wall trend in the future.

Will feature walls go the way of shag carpet?

Will the next generation say, "What were they thinking?!" Will the next generation buy a home that has a feature wall and spend a lot of $ tearing it apart?

And will the generation after that one think of feature walls as vintage and carefully restore them?

What do you think of feature walls?

Re: Feature Walls

Sooner — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:54:14 GMT

@Desert Lily We had them before shag carpet when I was growing up. We had a rectangular den and the shorter wall was where the tv went. My mom always painted it a deeper color.

The den walls were Navajo White Lucite paint (I know because a number of summers I painted them). The feature wall was sometimes a mid-tone warm coral (with some brown in it--between coral and rust), sometimes sage, once (for about a month) a butter color. We loved it and had fun with them.

I am all for a feature wall--just one or two per house please.

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Bonkers1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:58:57 GMT

I'm not crazy about adding wood or stone to a wall. I do love a wall painted a different color than the rest of the room - it's an attention getter.

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Janey2 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:04:41 GMT

Like everything else it will become "old" in the future. Something else will take its place. That is how the industry keeps us buying new things. By the way I changed my bedroom carpet to shag carpet about 2 years ago. It is different than the shag of years ago. It never looks flat, always stands up. It adds some texture to the room.

Re: Feature Walls

CANDLEQUEEN — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:15:48 GMT

I think they can be very well done. I have seen them a lot on House Hunters and reno shows on HGTV. Just saw one last night on House Hunters, and I thought it was really pretty!

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CANDLEQUEEN — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:17:20 GMT

Re: Feature Walls

Nonametoday — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:14:53 GMT

I got a big-time sale on some wallpaper (very expensive brand) used in a multi-millionaire home and several rolls were returned. My neighbor, at the time, who owned the "best" decorator/paint/wallpaper/carpet store in town always let me know if they had something interesting in returns. I had used these returns, especially when I did my dining room back wall and my foyer in real grass cloth.

I looked through the bin and for $15/roll I got what had been more than $100/single roll at the time of purchase. It was only enough to do three walls of my bedroom and since ordering the other rolls to do the one remaining wall, I just did three. I was never satisfied with the "coordinating" lesser expensive wallpaper for that wall, so I ended up matching the background color of the wallpaper and painting the one wall that color which I placed my bed against and I liked it but those are the only walls I have ever done that in that I liked. I have done it many times to my house and friends' houses who used to get me to hang paper and paint for them in my spare time.

You have to be careful when doing a feature wall and I would never do one in stone or any permanent-like materials. Wallpaper and paint are very temporary.

Re: Feature Walls

Marsha2003 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:31:01 GMT

I think feature walls can add interest, especially when it's a wall with a fireplace, but I also think they are usually very taste specific, enjoyable for the homeowner, but not necessarily something that will appeal to buyers.

Will feature walls become passé? Of course! Doesn't everything? I think it's amusing to watch trends and favored styles come and go. I thought we were never going to get past the grey/greige trend, but finally, the tide seems slowly turning.

Re: Feature Walls

stevieb — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:39:34 GMT

Is this the new parlance for what, a few years ago, were referred to as 'accent walls'? When done well, I like a brick wall in a traditionally outfitted room. Have seen pretty stone and panelled walls in a room that is otherwise plastered or drywalled. I also find a single wall of wallpaper to often be appealing, I don't, however, tend to find one wall painted differently from the rest to be particularly desirable, other perhaps than in a more public setting such as a lobby.

Re: Feature Walls

Regal Bee — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:41:56 GMT

I'm not a big fan of feature walls but if the homeowner loves them...go for it.

I always decorate with what I love and don't worry about a year from now or ten years down the road. Living with what you love is one of the true joys of life.

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Puzzle Piece — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:10:30 GMT

I get too easily bored and would tear down or change the feature wall. Paint does it for me. I don't like wallpaper either.

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Nonametoday — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:53:08 GMT

@stevieb

I have a lady in my Canasta club who is from "old money" and she does not spend it unwisely. She wanted a whole wall of stone and a fireplace therein. She owns a lot of property in a couple other states and she hauled stones from one of the riverbeds on their property to her home here. She said it took 9 trips to get them hauled in her trusty pick-up truck but she was not going to pay for something she had on her property. She also had a lot of hired help. They are very large stones, not the small gravel like you normally see in a riverbed. That wall is beautiful. It's a game room and bar/lounge.

Re: Feature Walls

Kachina624 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:48:36 GMT

@Desert Lily. This is my favorite feature wall in what was described as a "modern farmhouse". lol. Note how the wall cleverly seems ro extend the stunning view out the window. The crest of the mountain continues across the wall, for instance.

Re: Feature Walls

stevieb — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 01:44:23 GMT

@Nonametoday wrote:
@stevieb
I have a lady in my Canasta club who is from "old money" and she does not spend it unwisely. She wanted a whole wall of stone and a fireplace therein. She owns a lot of property in a couple other states and she hauled stones from one of the riverbeds on their property to her home here. She said it took 9 trips to get them hauled in her trusty pick-up truck but she was not going to pay for something she had on her property. She also had a lot of hired help. They are very large stones, not the small gravel like you normally see in a riverbed. That wall is beautiful. It's a game room and bar/lounge.

@Nonametoday Sounds beautiful. Oh to be Ms. GotRocks... In more ways than one, I guess!

Re: Feature Walls

Desert Lily — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:10:57 GMT

@Kachina624 That feature wall is awesome!

Re: Feature Walls

stevieb — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:58:07 GMT

@Desert Lily wrote:
@Kachina624 That feature wall is awesome!

It is very nice. Are we to understand, though, that a wall sized piece of art or a wall with a mural is now a 'feature wall'...

Re: Feature Walls

CrazyTimes — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:40:27 GMT

I don't have any feature walls with texture and different materials. Those kinds of treatments are probably difficult to change. I do use paint as a feature. Paint is an easy way to add interest and contrast, and it's more easily changed if you decide you're tired of it.

I've painted one wall in a room a different color. I've had wallpaper on just one wall too. I also use a different paint color beneath the chair rail molding in our dining room. My entry way used to painted a different color than my living room, but I recently painted again and decided to use the same color for both spaces.

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ninjawife — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:09:46 GMT

I don't have any feature walls in main parts of my home. Aside from the powder room my roomsare painted in a neutral color. The features of most rooms are the windows, fireplace, furniture placement. Those features are accented by window treatments or upholstered furniture in interesting colors or patterns. I do have feature walls in my husband's office and DD's second bedroom (yes she has two with a jack and jill bathroom between them). I do have feature ceilings in the dining room and music room that are across the hall from one another.

Re: Feature Walls

Nonametoday — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:03:37 GMT

Is that a theater size TV with the art work that you put to hide the screen (monitor),

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SilleeMee — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:16:07 GMT

I'd rather use an accent color on one major wall. Get bored with it and another color goes up. Simpler than most other options.