Arranging and Hanging your Pictures

Here are some suggestions to help you decide how to hang your artwork:
 
Say you have just visited a beautiful gallery and fell in love with this painting, bought it, but don’t know where to hang it.
 If it is a painting that has colors and mood that blend into your home décor, you are safe to hang it most anywhere.

 But say, you bought it on impulse, you love the painting but realistically it really doesn’t really “fit” in any room.  I am sure all of us have a favorite spot where we love to rest or meditate.  That is your own private spot and normally you place things there that inspire you.  Certainly if you bought such painting it must inspire you for some reason.  Maybe it bring peace and rest, maybe it excites you, maybe it brings back memories of home.  Hey then your rest spot is a great place to hang it.

 Most of the time you want a painting to be the focal point as that is where most people look when the first enter your home or a room.  Around that focal point you will want to create a room that helps bring attention to your artwork and the mood it sets.  If the painting is large, one should hang it over a sofa or a piece of low furniture again the wall. When placing art above furniture such as a sofa, you need to hang the picture about six to nine inches above the sofa, or at eye level.

You can also hang it with a gallery of pictures that are complimentary to the one you just hung.   That especially looks good if your have a lot of space to cover on that wall. Anything that you hang along sde the painting does not have to be another paintings, although that works also, but one can hang plates, flower arrangement in wall containers, small mirrors, etc. to create an attractive gallery.   It is important when you hang a gallery, that it be balanced and well pleasing to the eye.  Cluster arrangements are tightly grouped with an even number of pictures together to give a statement or a focal point. This works on either large or small wall spaces, depending on the look you want.

 By placing an odd number of pictures in a horizontal line gives balance and the sense of space. This works well in hallways or stairwells.  To create a modern art gallery feel, particularly nice in hallways, lobbies and stairwells, give each piece ample breathing room.  It is a bit tricky to get picture hung side by side and even.  It may be good to get a professional to help you.  At the least, one should use a measuring line for sure.