Winter Decor Ideas by Room

What are the best winter decor ideas that are not Christmas?

A snow, cabin or frozen lake canvas is the winter decoration that never reads as a holiday. Wreaths, red and green palettes and gift motifs belong to December, while snow, bare trees, ice and low light read right through March. Our winter wall art guide explains why a snowy landscape is not festive, and the Winter Wall Art collection is the place to start browsing the scenes below.

Which snow scenes suit a living room?

Over a sofa, a snow scene should be about two thirds of the sofa's width, with 6 to 8 inches between the sofa back and the bottom of the canvas. An 84 inch sofa takes about 56 inches. Our widest single horizontal is 48 x 32 inches, a 3 Horizontal set measures 49 x 32 overall and a 5 Star set comes at 62 x 32, so a set is how you fill a larger sofa. The sofa wall art size guide has the full table, including sectionals.

Falling snow is the winter subject with the most movement: Icy Road with Snowfall shows flakes in the air over a mountain road, with the low sun breaking through mist. An avenue of snow-laden trees such as Alley in Snowy Morning is almost white, so it brightens a dim room without adding a color. Both suit a warm sofa, because a cool picture and warm fabric balance each other. Browse Snowfall Wall Art and Living Room Wall Art.

How do you decorate a room around a winter cabin?

Put a wide cabin scene over the headboard or sofa, where its roofline and window sit at eye level. Above a bed, leave 6 to 8 inches above the top of the headboard and size the art to about two thirds of its width: roughly 40 inches for a 60 inch queen and 50 for a 76 inch king. A single panoramic canvas runs from 36 x 12 to 60 x 20 inches, so a 48 x 16 piece suits a king bed.

Wooden Cabin in Winter Forest shows a log cabin under a starry sky with one lit window, which gives a bedroom a single warm point in a dark blue field. Winter Cabin at Sunset is a painterly scene with a path leading to a snow-roofed cabin, and it suits a living room wall. Winter Cabin in the Carpathians is a tall vertical with a snow-covered cabin and a thread of smoke under a pastel sky. Our above the bed guide sets the fixings, and Panoramic Wall Art holds the wide shape.

Pro tip: Center the canvas on the bed, not on the wall. If the bed sits off center in the room, the picture follows the bed, because the eye reads the headboard and the art as one group.

Can a frozen lake make a room feel calm?

A frozen lake gives a wall a flat, pale expanse with one dark line of shore, which lowers the visual noise in a room. Frozen Maligne Lake with Snow-capped Peaks is mostly grey water and ice, dark pines and white mountains. As a 3 Horizontal set it carries one calm horizon across a long wall in a dining room or an office, at 25 x 16, 37 x 24 or 49 x 32 inches overall, with the gaps between panels already built into the set sizes.

Cool scenes need a warm partner in the room. A wood table, a lamp with a warm bulb or a throw on a chair keeps a frozen scene from feeling cold. Lake Wall Art includes frozen shore scenes such as Red Cabin by Frozen Lake at Sunset, and our guide to silky and frozen waterfall art shows how ice reads in a picture.

Which warm light winter scenes keep a room cozy?

Choose a scene where the light is warm, a sunset on snow or a lit window, and the room reads cozy even though the subject is cold. Winter Sunset Over Frozen Lake shows a gold and peach sky over a pale frozen shore. Red Cabin by Frozen Lake at Sunset sets a small cabin on blue snow under a rose and violet sky. Both put the warmth in the sky, so the canvas glows in a room that is otherwise white and grey.

Tall warm light pieces suit entries and hallways. A single vertical canvas runs from 12 x 24 to 30 x 60 inches, and a 3 Vertical set from 12 x 25 to 24 x 49 inches overall. Hang the center 57 to 60 inches from the floor, the height of a standing eye. Our hallway and entryway guide covers spacing along a corridor, and Vertical Wall Art holds the tall shapes.

Watch out: A winter room made only of blue and white reads cold. Make sure one thing in the picture is warm, such as a sunset sky, a lit window or a wooden cabin wall, before you choose it.

Should winter wall art be a single canvas or a set?

Use a single canvas for one clear subject, such as a cabin, and a set for a long horizon, such as a lake or a ridge. A gap between panels falls through the middle of a lone cabin, but it disappears into a sheet of ice or a snowy ridge line. Our single canvas versus multi panel guide covers the gaps, and the multi panel sizes guide lists the sets.

Winter Landscape at Sunset is a good case for a five panel set: a snow lane, birch trees and a low sun spread across a wide wall, and the horizon runs across the gaps without losing the picture. A 5 Star set at 62 x 32 inches suits an 84 inch sofa, and one at 82 x 42 suits a bare wall about 10 feet wide.

What else makes a winter room feel cozy besides the wall?

Layer texture and lower the light. A throw on the sofa, a rug underfoot and lamps in place of the overhead light add more warmth than any single object. A fireplace, working or not, is a natural focal point if you arrange the seating around it. None of that replaces the wall, which supplies the winter image the soft layers sit under.

How long should winter wall art stay up?

Leave it up from November through March, and longer if you like the picture. Interest in winter decor ideas peaks in December and January, but the season runs well past that, and a snow scene with no holiday motif has no date on it. Our winter wall art guide explains why a snow forest can hang in July.

Each canvas is printed to order, so check the delivery estimate at checkout if you want it up by a certain day. When spring comes, hang the next scene on the same hooks, since the center height stays right. The 57 or 60 inch hanging guide explains why.

What should you check before you hang it?

• The wall width you have, measured in inches and written down.
• The width of the sofa or headboard below, then two thirds of it for the canvas.
• The center height: 57 to 60 inches on open wall, or 6 to 8 inches above the top of a sofa back or headboard.
• That the picture has no holiday motif, so it still reads right in February.
• That one thing in the picture is warm, so the room does not read cold.
• That the hook suits the weight, with a wall anchor or stud for a large set.