How to Decorate a Wall With Colored Tape Ideas

Types of Colored Tape for Walls

• Masking tape can grow monotonous. Consider more chromatic options when designing a wall. Gaffer's tape, the traditional adhesive for the film industry, is an excellent choice for decor. Available in innumerable shades, the tape causes no damage to walls or paint. Plastic "deco" tape sports quirky patterns and designs, making it an ideal fit for decorating walls in a child's room. Painter's tape can create more for a wall than mere protection against tempera or varnish; it can make for an attractive design itself.

Design With Duct Tape

• Colored duct tape is another adhesive that can adorn a wall. Many people fear this tape's potential to damage a surface or leave behind a filmy residue. Panelings crafted from poster board can circumvent this threat. Fold several sheets of the board in half width-wise. Staple them together, overlapping them by one centimeter. Cut and smooth down strips of duct tape onto the poster boards. Hang the duct tape paneling to the wall using thumb tacks.

Wallpaper Replications

• Wallpaper is a decor staple. Yet once mounted, changing to another style of wallpaper can prove difficult. Colored tape can mimic the effect of wallpaper while being much simpler to modify or remove. Lay thick strips of salmon-colored tape onto a wall, spaced about 2 inches apart, for a pastel stripe look. Create a diamond wallpaper pattern by crisscrossing thin strips of forest green painter's tape or floral tape on a wall, producing rows of slanted squares.

Wall Tape Art

• Adventurous designers can exercise an artistic vein with colored tape as well. Fashion an indoor mural, traditionally associated with walls out of doors, by designing shapes and images of your own liking from strips of tape. Long pieces of silver metallic tape, for instance, can create a sprawling gray flower when positioned as radii emanating from a center. Try free-form taping for a spontaneous wall design. Cut strips of tape to various lengths and press them onto a wall into geometric or abstract shapes.