High walls are necessary for certain environments, such as warehouses and industrial spaces, and they’re also featured in different settings, such as converted workspaces and living spaces.

Accessorizing tall walls can be a challenge from a décor standpoint. The typical collection of décor, such as wall art, may not necessarily apply to a tall wall or look awkward. As a result, you may leave so much wall space uncovered.

Fortunately, there are many artistic ways to fill your tall walls with colour, beauty, and style. Here are eleven ideas on how to decorate tall walls, regardless of the environment:

1. Wall Artwork

You can still do artwork on a tall wall. You’ve just got to be aware of its size. Artwork that reaches vertically as opposed to horizontally is best. You may want to use a single large bold image or group a gallery of art in a specific shape.

A collection of paintings, either of the same size or differently sized, can be a very creative way to use a tall wall.

2. Paint a Wall Pattern

Instead of setting up art, an alternative is to decorate tall walls by painting directly on the wall. Numerous patterns make this a unique creation, from abstract shapes to dots, vertical or horizontal lines, jagged, and monochrome. Depending on the size of your tall wall, covering it in a visual rhythm can make a space feel less big and empty.

3. Wall Murals

If you’re artistically inclined, painting a mural is a beautiful way to use a tall wall. Many modern-minimalist spaces that have extremely high ceilings make use of murals.

If you’re an industrial-style warehouse, this may not be an ideal use of a tall wall, but for some, a vertical art mural is vivid and will make a space feel more intimate and connected overall.

4. Plant Walls

A plant wall is to build a vertical plant garden. There are many ways to do this, including with artificial plants if you are worried about upkeep. Lots of plants can be made to exist on a plant wall, especially succulents and air plants which are both very easy to maintain. The downside to creating a plant wall is that it can take a lot of greenery to fill up a tall wall.

5. 3D Art Installation

There are 3D art installations you can tack onto your wall, ranging from butterflies carefully stationed in a pattern up the wall to use abstract wall art. The beauty of mounting 3D objects across a tall wall is no subscribed-to pattern or rules.

No matter the use of space, you can apply the room’s function to an appropriate décor style to suit a 3D wall art installation.

6. Corner Guards

Corner guards are perfect for decorating tall walls in an industrial setting. They complement the room with an industrial-appropriate aesthetic and serve a function.

Metal corner guards protect the wall when moving heavy or bulky items around. If you’ve ever dented or scuffed up a wall from something heavy, corner guards can prevent this from happening again.

7. Stone Walls

Natural stone adds a lot of beauty to a wall. Especially in a rustic or more natural-toned room, stone with varying colour differences can add to a tall wall. You use stones like wallpaper, applying them as wall coverage and covering over anything underneath.

8. Wall Textiles

Textiles are another way to dress up a wall without doing very much. Textiles are applied similarly to wallpaper, except they create a visual text and use fabric. The texture of them is simple, and they are easy to hang. There are ways to use fabric, and it’s temporary in design, so it can be removed and adjusted as you like.

9. Wall Shelving

Adding shelving to a wall is a way to decorate while also providing a utility. You can opt for a single shelf or a few, or cover your wall in cubbies and storage pieces.

Depending on the height of the wall, you may need a ladder to access the top shelving, but in some workspaces, a covered wall in shelving like this serves many purposes.

10. Hanging Wall Décor

There is a lot you can do to create the feeling of lower ceilings and use ceiling-mounted hanging décor to occupy space. We know this isn’t tacking anything directly on the wall, but we include it here in this list of how to decorate tall walls because it does make a difference. Hanging abstract pieces. Hanging curtain material. Things like these.

11. Wall Wood Trim

Splices of wood create a whole new type of tall wall, allowing you to make new architectural shapes. For any tall wall that doesn’t have much interest, creatively arranged wood trim certainly catches the eye and turns the wall into self-expression.

You can do this as minimalist as you like or can go abstract with how you add a three-dimensional structure to a flat wall.