Interior wall cladding offers a lot of scope and opportunity for infusing elegance, warmth and personality into your home.
Whether you’re planning a renovation on a budget or just looking for a simple way to reinvigorate the style and aesthetic of your living room, there are many ways in which modern wall cladding can be utilised to great effect.
What is Wall Cladding?
Cladding, in construction, refers to attaching a material to the exterior or outer skin of a wall. Cladding can be made from a variety of different materials, including natural stone or wood. Even metal and fibre cement have been used in wall cladding applications.
In essence, it can be considered as a form of ‘skin’ placed over the existing walls.
Understanding Interior Wall Cladding
Interior wall cladding is applied to the internal walls of one’s home. Whether it’s the bathroom or living room, using cladding on the walls of your home can change the entire look of a space. Generally, it is used purely for aesthetic purposes but there are occasions where there can be a functional element to its installation as well.
While some home renovators opt to rather paint a wall (or walls), wall cladding offers a greater opportunity to infuse elegance, warmth and homeliness. By attaching a new material to the wall itself, it’s not just the colour scheme that can be transformed, but the texture, style and overall visual appeal of the entire room too.
Benefits of Wall Cladding
Affordable
Renovations can get expensive! If you’re working on a tight budget or just looking for ways in which you can save some extra dollars, opting for wall cladding is a smart way to go. Instead of replacing a wall completely and requiring materials for rebuilding the structure from scratch, wall cladding simply adds a veneer of material over the existing walls. Less material and less labour translates into money saved!
Effective
Adding cladding to your interior walls is an effective way to painlessly achieve a whole new look in your home. By carefully choosing the right material and aesthetic, wall cladding allows you to overhaul the style of your home without making structural or extensive changes. Whether you’re wanting to merely refresh the overall look or achieve something more substantial, cladding is a highly effective way of going about it.
Practical
Many of the benefits of wall cladding revolve around the aesthetic visuals of adding a new material to an existing wall. But there can also be significant practical value. If you’re looking to add better or new insulation to a wall or wanting to add a protective outer layer to an interior wall, cladding can be just the solution.
From a maintenance perspective also, well chosen and professionally installed wall cladding doesn’t require extensive tender love and care to keep it looking and functioning beautifully.
Living Room Modern Wall Cladding
The living room is a popular space in the house to add some wall cladding. As its name suggests, a lot of time is spent in living rooms simply living! That’s why it’s important that you absolutely love the look and feel of the space itself. If it needs a bit of a refresh or even a top-to-toe redo, wall cladding can be an excellent option.
So how do you infuse a touch of elegance through modern interior wall cladding? Two words: Natural stone.
Stone Wall Cladding
At Euro Marble, we specialise in all things natural stone, including wall cladding. We’ve been involved firsthand in transforming living rooms by using stone cladding.
While some customers make the mistake of assuming that there is a single visual aesthetic to natural stone, the truth is there is a ton of variety in shade, tone, colour and patterns. From the classic look of white and grey to blues, reds, golds, greens and pinks, there’s truly something for everyone.
When it comes to elegant interior cladding, however, we highly recommend two different options:
- Marble Cladding
- Limestone Cladding
Marble Cladding
Nothing symbolises elegance and opulence quite like marble stone. There’s still plenty of variety in terms of colour and shade. While we, and many of our customers, absolutely love the iconic milky white/grey veining visual of classic marble, there are many other options as well.
Marble is a highly durable natural stone, which makes it perfect for interior wall cladding as it’s both fashionable and functional. Thanks to its timeless aesthetic, marble is great for application in both traditionally-styled and modern living rooms.
Limestone Cladding
Limestone is another excellent choice of natural stone. The unique way in which this stone is formed at the bottom of water repositories endows it with a visual style that simply can’t be matched. The earthy and natural shades and tones make for an excellent choice of modern interior wall cladding.
Much like marble, limestone is durable and hard wearing with the right maintenance and care. While the range of colour options available is not as wide as with other stones, there are still a number of different shades of limestone ranging from beige to grey and brown.
Euro Marble – the elegant touch!
For over 30 years, Euro Marble has been using our craftsmanship and passion for all things marble and natural stone to achieve wonders for our customers.
Over this time, we’ve developed a reputation for delivering high-end products and services, on time, on budget and on point! If you’re considering options for your modern interior wall cladding, or need that elegant touch to achieve something truly spectacular, reach out to our team today.
Our 15 natural stone experts are more than happy to talk and walk you through different modern wall cladding options for your living room!
