- You can use paint techniques to decorate your high walls. There are even paint techniques that will bring your tall walls down to size. For instance, painting your ceiling the same color as the wall or darker will visually lower the ceiling and make the wall appear less intimidating. You can also use paint to give your expansive wall more interest by creating a mural or texture pattern on the wall.
- When you walk into a home with two-story ceilings, it is a natural inclination to look up and take in the dramatic view. To bring the gaze back down to a normal height and prevent people from walking into walls, use decorating tricks to refocus the eye on a lower focal point. You can do this by installing a wallpaper border at chair rail height or even at eye level. Choose your wallpaper carefully, though, so it doesn't get dated quickly. Instead of a border, paint a wide horizontal stripe around the room on which you hang artwork. Or paint the lower half of the wall darker than the upper half. You can do the same with three colors, dividing the wall horizontally into thirds.
- If you have tall walls, you will need tall accessories and wall art. Instead of hanging your typical 4-by-3 foot mirror, you may actually want to look for a floor mirror at least 6 feet tall and hang that on the wall instead. Other oversized items you can hang on your high walls are wall dividers (hung as art) and large lightweight wall hangings or tapestries.
- Remember, less is more. Just because your wall is expansive, that does not mean you need to fill every inch of that space. It is better to choose a few large pieces than many small pieces. One exception to that rule is to hang multiples of the same item such as a triptych piece of artwork, or a grid of identical mirrors or photographs with coordinating frames.
