Wall decoration ideas in Bangladesh: every wall, size and price

How do you decorate a wall at home?

Pick one wall, choose one piece big enough for it, and hang it at eye level. Over a sofa or a bed, that means art about two-thirds the width of the furniture, with its centre 57 to 60 inches (145 to 152 cm) from the floor: the rule in Fine Art America's hanging guide of August 2026. Everything else in this guide follows from those three choices.

The most common mistake is art that's too small. Architect Mustapha Khalid Palash told The Business Standard in June 2026 that people often choose artworks too small for large walls, so tiny frames end up looking lost. The same article advised buying one meaningful piece first rather than decorating the whole home at once. We agree: put one good piece on the wall guests see first, then do the next wall when you find the right thing for it.

Wall decoration prices at a glance (2026)

These are shop pages and dated press reports, so prices drift. Use them to see what each kind of wall decor costs, not as a quote. Each row links to the guide that covers that type in depth.

Which wall should you decorate first?

The wall people face when they walk in. In most flats that's the drawing room wall behind or opposite the sofa. Then the wall above your bed, then the walls you pass every day: the dining wall, the entrance and the stairs.

What goes on the wall behind the sofa?

One strong piece about two-thirds the sofa's width, its bottom edge 6 to 10 inches above the sofa back (Fine Art America, August 2026). On a 6-foot (72-inch) sofa that's a canvas about 48 inches wide, or two or three smaller pieces hung as one block of that width.

This is the main wall of the drawing room, and our drawing room decoration ideas cover the rest of that room: layout, colours, lights and a ৳5,000 plan. The short version: one good piece on this wall does more than a showcase full of showpieces. If you can't find one piece wide enough, a pair of the same height, or a three-panel set, reads as one.

Four hand-painted canvases by JADUZ makers for a sofa wall: Where the Forest Breathes, a mostly green acrylic on a 24 × 24 inch canvas by Sabiha; Golden Hour in the Forest, her gold-and-orange forest on a wooden canvas; and, by Sabiha's Art & Craft, a 3D textured ocean-waves canvas and a green and olive abstract made with texture powder. Two of them side by side fill a wider sofa.

How big should wall art be?

Big enough to hold the wall: about two-thirds the width of the furniture below it. Fine Art America treats two-thirds to three-quarters as the range that looks intentional. Work it out before you shop:

• A 5-foot (60-inch) sofa or bed: about 40 inches of art.
• A 6-foot (72-inch) sofa: about 48 inches.
• A 7-foot (84-inch) sofa: about 56 inches, usually as two or three panels.

A group counts as one piece. Measure from the outer edge of the first frame to the outer edge of the last, gaps included. To test a size before you buy, cut a sheet of newspaper to the canvas size and tape it to the wall for a day. Our texture painting price guide has a fuller table that matches sofa widths to canvas and panel sizes.

On a bare wall with no furniture, size the art to the part of the wall you see from the doorway, and go bigger than feels safe. That's the mistake Palash described: small frames on a big wall.

What goes above the bed?

Something calm, about two-thirds the bed's width, fixed firmly to the wall. The sofa proportion works over a headboard too: about 40 inches of art over a 5-foot bed. A landscape, a seascape or soft abstract colour suits a room you sleep in better than a busy pattern, as our painting price guide also suggests.

Hang it on screws or wall hooks, never on adhesive strips, because anything that falls lands on someone. Skip glass on this wall if you can. Our bedroom decoration ideas cover the rest of the room: budgets, light, kantha and plants.

How do you decorate a dining wall?

Use a medium painting, a calligraphy canvas or a row of plates, sized to the table or sideboard below it. The Business Standard's June 2026 article named dining corners, hallways and stair landings as good places for more expressive pieces.

• Keep the centre near eye level. You'll mostly see it from your chair, so don't push it high.
• Keep it off a wet wall. The same article warned against walls next to a washroom or with water pipes behind them. In many flats that includes the wall by the dining room basin.
• Plates on the wall are an old idea that still works. The Daily Star's Bangla edition suggested colourful plates on the wall back in 2016. Use plate hangers made for the job.

If you're hanging a verse or a name of God, read our Islamic calligraphy wall art guide first. It covers where to hang it and where not to (never in a bathroom), which script to choose and how to check the Arabic.

How do you decorate an entrance or corridor wall?

Use a mirror, a narrow piece of art or a woven hanging, hung a little higher than in a sitting room. Framebridge's hanging guide (October 2023) suggests 60 to 66 inches above the floor in a hallway, where everyone is standing.

• A mirror makes a narrow entrance look wider and gives you a last look on the way out. The Business Standard (March 2023) suggested custom-sized mirrors for awkward spaces and warned that a badly placed mirror can cause accidents, so keep it clear of a swinging door. Othoba says decorative mirrors start at about ৳500 to ৳800.
• Woven hogla, jute or cane is light, easy to dust and looks deshi without shouting.
• Small frames in a row at one height suit a corridor too narrow to step back from a big piece.

Two handmade pieces that fit here. The Traditionist weaves a set of three hogla pata wall-hanging vases, the largest 12 inches, and suggests them for an entrance hallway. Little Kohinoor Studio's mirror canvases set a decorative mirror into hand-painted acrylic artwork.

How do you hang pictures on a stair wall?

In a line that rises with the stairs, with the centre of each frame about 57 inches above the step below it. That's Frame It Easy's rule; the US framing shop also suggests matching the height of the railing, depending on the wall. On a landing, treat the wall like any flat wall.

• Mark the line with painter's tape first, parallel to the handrail, and look at it from the bottom and the top before you drill.
• Keep the gaps equal, 2 to 3 inches between frames, the spacing Fine Art America gives for a group.
• Use light frames. A heavy frame over a stairwell is hard to reach and dangerous if it falls.
• Choose small and medium pieces. People see a stair wall up close and on the move.

How do you make a gallery wall?

Treat the group as one picture: its centre about 57 inches from the floor, its outer edges making a rough rectangle, and 2 to 3 inches between frames. Framebridge applies the 57-inch rule to a gallery wall just as it does to a single piece, and Fine Art America gives the spacing.

• Plan on the floor first, or cut paper templates the size of each frame and tape them up.
• Start with the biggest piece near the centre and build outwards.
• Repeat one thing: the same frame colour, or two or three colours that come back across the pictures. The Business Standard (2023) advised simple frames so the art stays the focus.
• Add one object to break up the rectangles: a small mirror, a woven plate or a hogla piece.

A set made to hang together saves the guesswork. Sabiha's Art & Craft sells one: seven textured canvas boards in navy blue, golden and grey (in the next rail).

Painting, calligraphy, texture or a wall hanging: which should you choose?

Choose by the wall and the budget: an original painting for the main wall if you can, a kantha or jute hanging for warmth at a lower price, calligraphy where the words matter to you, and a mirror for a dark or narrow space. Each type has its own guide:

• Paintings. Our painting price guide covers everything from printed boards to gallery works, plus framing and where to buy in Dhaka. As one example, artist Sadek Ahmed's 2026 acrylics were priced at ৳15,000 for 12 × 12 inches and ৳30,000 for 24 × 24 inches. For acrylic and abstract canvases, read acrylic and abstract painting prices.
• Texture and 3D art. Paste or sand under the paint catches side light. SleekyOne's October 2026 guide put medium texture paintings at ৳2,500 to ৳5,000. A lot of "3D wall art" is a laminated print, and the texture painting guide shows how to tell.
• Islamic calligraphy. A hand-painted calligraphy canvas sold for ৳2,000 to ৳10,000 depending on size and lettering, Dhaka Tribune reported in October 2024. Our calligraphy guide covers verses, scripts and placement.
• Wall hangings. Kumudini's kantha wall mats cost ৳700 to ৳2,200 (Prothom Alo, January 2026), and small jute pieces cost a few hundred taka. The wall hanging price guide covers kantha, macramé, jute and wood.
• Wallpaper or a mural. Budget wallpaper cost ৳80 to ৳150 per square foot in June 2026, plus ৳30 to ৳80 to fit (The Daily Star), and it doesn't fix a damp wall. A painted mural is a bigger commitment: muralist Kazi Istela Imam told The Business Standard in January 2026 that a mural budget shouldn't be less than ৳1 lakh.

Spend on the wall everyone sees. Hand-painted work is one of a kind and lasts. For a corridor, a child's room or a wall you'll redo next year, a printed canvas at ৳800 to ৳1,500 from Othoba or Daraz is a fair stopgap.

From JADUZ makers: the seven-piece navy, golden and grey set for a gallery wall; Karunika's Islamic calligraphy canvas with gold-foil detail; Sabiha's Art & Craft's floral Arabic calligraphy; and New Day, a 10 × 10 inch garden painting by Sabiha for a small wall.

How do you decorate a wall without drilling?

Lean art on a shelf or sideboard, hang soft pieces from a rail, and save adhesive strips for light, replaceable frames. Command, 3M's adhesive-strip brand, says its picture-hanging strips need paint cured for at least 7 days, aren't recommended on heavily textured walls, wallpaper, brick or rough concrete, and lists humidity and temperature changes among the reasons a hook falls.

• Lean. A large frame resting on a sideboard or a deep shelf looks deliberate. Overlap two or three pieces of different sizes.
• Hang from what's there. A curtain rod, a window grille or a nail the last tenant left can carry a light kantha or a woven hanging on a cord.
• Peel-and-stick wallpaper is a flexible choice for renters, The Daily Star wrote in June 2026, though it doesn't give the finish or life of professionally fitted wallpaper.
• Wall stickers come off cleanly, but The Business Standard (2023) noted that Bangladesh's humidity and temperature swings weaken the adhesive on wallpaper and stickers, so they don't last as long as in drier places.
• Never stick an original. A hand-painted canvas is one of a kind. Lean it or hang it on a proper hook.

Our small rented flat guide has the strip weight limits, what to ask the landlord and what to do when you move out.

Can you make wall decoration at home?

Yes, and for one wall or a corner it can look as good as anything you buy. The ideas that look deliberate rather than crafty:

• Paper. Origami stars, paper butterflies or a cut-paper alpona. The Daily Star's Bangla edition (2016) suggested colourful paper, alpona stickers and butterflies, a coloured alphabet in a child's room, and framing your children's own drawings.
• Fabric on a frame. Stretch a block-printed cloth, an old saree border or a gamchha over a wooden frame. bdnews24.com (July 2025) described the same trick with a printed shower curtain fitted over a cloth-covered wooden frame.
• A stencil. Paint a repeat pattern through a stencil on one wall instead of buying wallpaper, another idea in the bdnews24.com piece.
• Plates and baskets. A group of painted plates or small woven baskets, hung as one block with even gaps.

Keep DIY to one wall. Homemade pieces on every wall start to look like a school fair.

How do you keep wall decor safe in humid weather?

Hang art on dry inside walls, away from bathrooms and pipes, and keep works on paper behind glass. The Business Standard's June 2026 article gave three warnings for Dhaka homes: avoid walls beside a washroom or with water pipes behind them, remember that works on paper suffer in the humidity, and use UV-protective glass on framed work near a west-facing window.

• Dust often. The Daily Star's Bangla edition pointed out that Bangladeshi homes get a lot of dust, so wipe frames, mirrors and showpieces regularly.
• Secure heavy pieces. The same article warned that heavy showpieces and tilting shelves must be fixed so they can't fall on anyone, especially children.
• Cover fabric art. The Business Standard (2023) suggested wrapping fabric pieces in polythene against dust. Air a kantha on dry days.

Where can you buy wall decor in Bangladesh?

Buy printed canvases, frames, mirrors and stickers from big online shops such as Othoba, Rokomari and Daraz: they're the cheapest and quickest. For handmade pieces, go to craft shops like Kumudini, to the BSCIC online market for jute, to artists' own pages and galleries, or to a curated marketplace.

JADUZ is one of those. It's a curated marketplace for Bangladeshi makers: each maker is vetted (portfolio, proof of making and identity), and every piece is approved before it goes live. You pay cash on delivery anywhere in Bangladesh, after a call to confirm the order. Open the parcel in front of the rider: if it's damaged, wrong or not as described, hand it back and pay nothing. Once the rider leaves there are no returns (how returns work). Browse wall art and home decor. If you paint or make wall pieces yourself, you can sell your art on JADUZ.