Spotted! Float Away With Dreamy Cloud Decor
You'll be on cloud nine after gazing at these cloud-inspired rooms
Melissa Cowan
26 December 2016
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If you’re a little foggy about how to make your room stand out, consider adding some sky-themed fun with cloud decor. It’s a good reminder to look up, even if it’s from the comfort of your own home. Here’s a bunch of gorgeous rooms that have been decorated with fluffy clouds in a variety of ways – from wallpaper, to artwork, to lighting. They’re proof that when it rains, it pours…
Cloud wallpaper
The right wallpaper has the ability to transform any room. It takes bedrooms in particular from plain to insanely special, and works best if you keep the rest of the decor relatively plain to avoid busyness. You’ll have your head in the clouds with this fluffy blue wallpaper, and lying on the daybed will make you feel like you’re floating through a soft blue sky.
The right wallpaper has the ability to transform any room. It takes bedrooms in particular from plain to insanely special, and works best if you keep the rest of the decor relatively plain to avoid busyness. You’ll have your head in the clouds with this fluffy blue wallpaper, and lying on the daybed will make you feel like you’re floating through a soft blue sky.
Have an old dresser that you want to spruce up? If you’d like it to fit in with the rest of the room but still be a bit of a feature – cover it with matching cloud wallpaper. This particular wallpaper is called Storm Clouds by wallpaper designer Abigail Edwards, who notes that “a touch of drama is added with flashes of bright white lightning.” Her very detailed hand-drawn design should not just be left for a rainy day.
Maybe this curvy cloud wallpaper in a nursery will help your little one drift off to sleep. If you’re unsure that cloud wallpaper will work for you, start out simple.
Browse more whimsical wallpaper
Browse more whimsical wallpaper
This Daydream wallpaper gives this nursery that summer feeling, with swallows flying among fluffy clouds. “The fun wallpaper was the inspiration for the nursery,” says the designer. The room is a good example of how to make clashing prints work well (the wallpaper and the rug) without it being overwhelming. Cloud wallpaper is great for a gender-neutral nursery.
Every dark cloud has a silver lining, especially the ones on this wallpaper. The dramatic grey clouds pictured in Nuvole wallpaper by Piero Fornasetti are particularly intriguing. While not overly cheery, the moody nature of the print is exhilarating.
Way-out wallpaper prints
Way-out wallpaper prints
Cloud artworks
This striking cloud painting is offset by neutral walls and furniture – letting the sky do the talking.
This striking cloud painting is offset by neutral walls and furniture – letting the sky do the talking.
Sunlight streams through the clouds in this stunning circular print. You can use the whimsical feel of the clouds in an artwork to tie into the rest of the room’s decor.
As Trevor Mein, the photographer of the cloud artwork pictured here, says, “In the ever-changing topography of the clouds, the landscape of the human heart – every mood and emotion – is writ large in the sky.”
A gorgeous cloud painting by Ian Fisher almost acts as a faux window in this dining room. The chandelier hanging in front of it adds extra drama.
You’ll be as right as rain with this fluid cloud-inspired painting by Chloe Planinsek. The pale blues and greys make for a wonderful palette.
Feeling under the weather?
Uplift your home with a sky painting. Mix classic furniture pieces, such as this solid timber desk, with modern cloud artworks. The midnight blue wall inspires creativity and is perfectly complemented by the cloud art.
Uplift your home with a sky painting. Mix classic furniture pieces, such as this solid timber desk, with modern cloud artworks. The midnight blue wall inspires creativity and is perfectly complemented by the cloud art.
Cloud murals
This mural is about as realistic as you can get. Your little one will float off into slumber while looking up at the clouds.
Dare-to-be-different wall murals
This mural is about as realistic as you can get. Your little one will float off into slumber while looking up at the clouds.
Dare-to-be-different wall murals
Cloud lamps
If you’d like to create the illusion of sunlight streaming through a cloud in your own room, try a cloud pendant lamp. There’s something wonderful and wacky about having an actual fluffy cloud hanging from your ceiling.
If you’d like to create the illusion of sunlight streaming through a cloud in your own room, try a cloud pendant lamp. There’s something wonderful and wacky about having an actual fluffy cloud hanging from your ceiling.
Cloud lamps don’t have to be limited to the bedroom – let your guests be part of the fun by hanging them at the entrance of your house or the dining room.
Cloud tile mosaics
This contemporary kitchen has a mosaic tile mural that’s edge-lit with LED strip lighting, adding colour and whimsy to this white space. If you’re short on a window overlooking the sky from your kitchen, this may serve as an excellent replacement.
This contemporary kitchen has a mosaic tile mural that’s edge-lit with LED strip lighting, adding colour and whimsy to this white space. If you’re short on a window overlooking the sky from your kitchen, this may serve as an excellent replacement.
This custom tile mosaic by Ann Sacks adds a lighter feeling to this bathroom. The green swirls can be interpreted as either clouds or water, depending on your mood that day.
Bathroom mosaic magic
Bathroom mosaic magic
Quartz crystal
You’ll adore your kitchen come rain, hail or shine with this large cloud kitchen feature made from a huge piece of quartz. The light behind it makes it feel distinctly like a thundercloud, lighting up this contemporary kitchen.
You’ll adore your kitchen come rain, hail or shine with this large cloud kitchen feature made from a huge piece of quartz. The light behind it makes it feel distinctly like a thundercloud, lighting up this contemporary kitchen.
Cloud cushions
Take a raincheck from getting up early in this oh-so-comfy bedroom, while snuggling the cloud pillow from Etsy.
Take a raincheck from getting up early in this oh-so-comfy bedroom, while snuggling the cloud pillow from Etsy.
Save some cuteness for a rainy day with this incredibly cute cloud character pillow – complete with a face and legs!
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Right, Ella!? I'm in love...
love those cloud lights!!!!!!!!!!!!!