10 new ways to update your walls

As the biggest surface in any room, walls have a massive impact, yet offer some of the easiest and most affordable ways to refresh your home.

Dramatic displays, simple paint tricks, modern mosaics and 3-D panelling - check out our 10 ideas for your walls and you'll soon be turning your home's blank canvases into masterpieces.

Here is a quick guide to the different techniques we cover:

PAINT Spots, stripes, clashing colour - paint is quick, easy and endlessly versatile. Take inspiration from big ideas that make the most of paint's creative possibilities.

WALLPAPER With endlessly inventive prints and colours, wallpaper is a ready-made source of a skilled designer's hard work and inspiration - all you have to do is hang it.

TILES Modern tiling bends the rules with bold ways to transform your walls. Vivid collage, colour, mosaic and structure give this ancient art form new life.

COLLECTIONS Whether mounted in smart symmetry or random configurations, cherished collections make bold wall art and celebrate your hunter-gatherer instincts.

PANELLING Movable, changeable or a more permanent fixture - panelling allows you to create a whole new surface to work from without altering the bricks and mortar.

Now be inspired by our 10 new ways to update your walls.