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Want to create your own miniature art gallery at home and are looking for ideas for the best layout? Creating a wall full of paintings allows you to give the right prominence to the works of the artists you love. The arrangement of canvases, prints, and frames can become a small work in itself if you pay proper attention to distances and relative positions.
To give you some inspiration, we've collected 10 design ideas for a wall full of paintings that will leave everyone speechless.
Get inspired by our ideas for walls full of paintings
To evaluate the right placement of the works, you need to take into account some aspects that, at first, might not occur to you.
A careful organization makes almost more of a difference than what you decide to display. Very often, when we don't have a precise idea of how to arrange the frames, we end up putting away the hammer and leaving the canvases in a corner to gather dust. Uncertainty and laziness take over, and in the end it always seems like the best option is to protect the walls from a series of unnecessary holes.
If this describes you, don't let your carefully curated apartment appear bare and devoid of any decoration. Follow our advice to create a wall full of paintings and bring a bit of art into your home life.
1. The largest painting is the centerpiece
A classic arrangement of paintings involves the largest frames going in the center. You can choose to dedicate one side of the room to a single work to make it stand out, or alternatively make it the centerpiece around which to create a composition with other works consistent in subject matter and colors.
An idea as an example is to place a large black and white photograph in the center and, around it, other smaller grayscale prints.
2. Change it up whenever you want with a shelf arrangement
If you're not sure how to arrange your wall full of paintings, skip hanging the frames and choose instead to rest them on a series of shelves.
You can create corners on shelves you've already installed, for example on a equipped wall, or create a real gallery with shelves mounted specifically to hold photos and paintings. The great advantage of this setup is that you can change it whenever you want without having to create new holes in the plaster.
3. An entire wall full of artistic paintings
Established customs have taught us that it's best to start arranging paintings from a certain height above the floor and stop well before reaching the ceiling. But what if you instead tried a free arrangement that goes from earth to sky?
An interesting idea to immerse yourself fully in art, only apparently against the grain. At the exhibitions at the British Royal Academy, for example, it's common to fill almost every inch of exhibition space.
4. Arrange your artworks in a mirrored arrangement
When you have a selection of very different formats, themes, and colors, it can seem difficult to find a way to distribute them coherently and homogeneously. In this case, we recommend imagining a horizontal or vertical line, depending on the spaces to be filled, and using it as a reference to align the paintings in two separate, mirrored groups: above and below, or left and right. This will give you two blocks that, although not very homogeneous, will appear harmonious.
5. A nine-element grid
A classic arrangement involves creating a grid of nine elements that form a single block. Ideally, you should be able to choose works dedicated to the same theme and in the same exact format, preferably square, to make the scheme uniform and pleasant to look at. The touch that makes the difference? Dividing a photo across nine different panels to create a checkerboard optical effect.
6. Alignment along an imaginary line at the bottom
To give coherence to the wall full of paintings, draw an imaginary line on the wall, at the height you think is most appropriate, below which you decide not to go to place the frames. A simple expedient, but one that conveys an immediate sense of order and coherence.
7. Top alignment
Similarly to the previous arrangement, you can imagine a top line along the wall beyond which you should not go with canvases and prints. With this composition, you can make the most of every centimeter even if there is already a lot of furniture in the room.
8. An imaginary frame
Another option for the arrangement consists of outlining four imaginary lines – two horizontal and two vertical – and thus defining an area within which to hang paintings and prints. This virtual frame helps you carve out the display space and make the whole thing organized and pleasant to look at even from a distance.
9. Take a diagonal line as a reference
Speaking of alignments, also try to imagine a diagonal as a limit beyond which not to hang anything. Working with oblique lines increases the sense of movement for a dynamic effect with great impact.
10. Exploit corners
Is there a corner of your house that you just don't know what to do with? Use it to organize your art gallery. The two adjacent walls are ideal for a symmetrical display, perhaps amplified with mirrors alternating with hanging frames.
With these suggestions, you can start organizing the walls with an elegant scheme that enhances the rest of the furniture. Paintings, photographs, but also wallpaper panels will finally have their place and you will be able to admire them whenever you want.
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