How To Hang Artwork Like An Interior Designer
Arranging artwork is a great way to accessorize your home. You get to create a focal point, a striking opportunity to add some color and by far one of the best ways to really personalize your space. Here are a few different styles to hang your artwork or favorite family photos.
Floor To Ceiling Grid
The Floor to Ceiling Grid gallery wall is a clean, sophisticated way to show off your artwork or photos. Offered in modern white or champagne silver, this impressive gallery is soft in color and dramatic in size.
Important: You need to have tall walls to make this arrangement work! It requires 105" of vertical space, which (with a few inches above and below) is about nine feet. Be sure to factor in any floor and crown moulding when you measure.
Propped Pictures
This is a favourite with interior stylists as it gives a really lovely relaxed vibe. Again I like the impermanence of it so you can have fun switching it around later down the road. The key here is to prop pictures of different heights and and I think it works better if they are sightly layered and overlapped.
Create A Focal Point
A large-scale piece of wall art or a mirror is a great way to create a focal point within a room scheme. I like to maximise the impact with a little symmetry so a pair of stunning lamps either side for example really enhances the statement.
The Uneven Grid
If you're a perfectionist, you'll love the clean design of The Uneven Grid gallery wall. This is one of our favorite ways to hang a collection of art, where you gather together all your pictures and group them in one pleasing display. It makes a really strong focal point in a room which can help make a scheme look really together. One thing we really love about a gallery wall is the way it all can grow organically over time. You can switch pictures around and add and subtract.
The Stack
Whether it's next to a window, door, or major furniture piece, this tall, thin column gallery wall will fit in every skinny corner of your house. The Stack is a great way to create the small space gallery wall you never knew you needed.
Finally here are my five top tips to displaying art:
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Artwork looks great when it is grouped together either as a gallery wall or symmetrically in a grid or row.
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Avoid hanging your artwork too high. It looks better when it is hung close above a piece of furniture.
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Try and link your pictures together in some way- either by having a similar colour story throughout or similar frames
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Enjoy collecting artwork over time. This way you can add and subtract pieces, helping to keep your home feeling fresh and individual.
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Consider painting the wall behind the art wall a shade deeper than you dare. Painting look great against this contrast.