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Posts tagged “art display”

Rectangular Frame Arrangement

The trend in hanging art lately seems to run towards walls of mismatched frames clustered devil-may-care to create an amorphous arrangement. It's a look we often love, though we admit this photo felt ...

Hanging Art High - Thoughts?

Hang 'em high - it's not just a bad-ass Clint Eastwood movie, it's also the apparent philosophy behind the artwork placement in this room. We're all for breaking decorating rules, but this still feels...

Flickr Finds: Rakkadeer's Diorama Wall

If a wall of photos is too two-dimensional for you, check out this wall of dioramas with contrasting interior walls. Every bit of available space is used, and we like the touch of the small lamp in ...

Close-Up!: Julie and Andrew's Art Display

This afternoon, for some reason, we suddenly thought of Julie and Andrew's Art-Filled San Francisco Abode. While we've blogged quite a few art displays, we haven't yet mentioned theirs......

How To: Put Together a Wall of Frames

One of our favorite bloggers has posted step-by-step instructions on how to decorate a wall with multiple frames. Yes, Dooce is not just for laughs, you know. We can also learn a home improvement thi...

Inspiration: Zee's Poster Hung from a Hanger

Remember our post about hanging art from hangers? Well, Zee over at Homebug's done it, and we think it looks great....

More Ways to Display Art

We've seen mismatched frames, uniform frames, frames as art, and on and on. Here's a nice way to split the difference, by choosing one thing to keep in common (in this case, the frame color) but mixin...

Inspiration: Danielle's Photo Wall

It seems like everywhere we turn, we see gallery walls. Here's another example of matching frames -- which actually were mismatched until Danielle painted them all white. ...

Inspiration: Mismatched Frames

We'll always like the look of a wall of art all in birch frames, but there's something to be said for tossing uniformity to the wind and mixing and (mis)matching to your heart's content......

Inspiration: Ana's Art Display

You may remember Ana's lovely home from our Small Cool Contest. Since then her blog has become one of our must-reads. We recently noticed her new gallery of framed pieces by Etsy artists. ...

The Art of Hanging Art on Your Walls
S.F. Chronicle: 08.06.08

The "mosaic hang." The "salon hang." The "Paris hang." The Chronicle's Susan Fornoff spoke with the proprietors of Lost Art Salon -- who hung the art in the Sunset Idea House in Menlo Park -- to ge...

Magnart Display System at Dick Blick

One week we gaze lovingly at a print or card, and the next we're ready for a change. The Magnart Display System seems perfect for fickle folk like us....

Inspiration: Victoria's Sepia-Toned Family Photo Display

We love Victoria's family photos that she's strung along a wire. We especially love that she's chosen her favorites, used Photoshop to make them sepia-toned, and added old-fashioned white borders. ...

Hanging Art from Hangers

We're surprised that hanging art from pants hangers actually looks kind of cool... but it does....

Roundup: Ways to Display Art

Close-Up!: Natalie and Nicholas' Framed Photos Today, my friends, we have for you a roundup of ways to display art. We've pulled a lot of ideas from our archives, so do jump below to take a peek. ...

Look!: Display at Henri Bendel

While browsing at Henri Bendel in NYC last week, this display area caught our eye. But not because of the colorful dresses on the mannequins. We were much more interested in the wall behind the mann...

Abbey Hendrickson's Art Display

While we found quite a few things to ogle in Abbey Hendrickson's House Tour over at Cookie's blog, it was this art display that really grabbed our attention. Hanging artwork in clusters isn't new to ...

Close-Up!: Natalie and Nicholas' Framed Photos

A couple of months ago our sister site ran a House Tour of a Melbourne family's cool home. In LA House Tour: Natalie, Nicholas and Arthur's Circus, the framed photos above the bed caught our eye. We...

Blogging the Oregonian: Unexpected Ranch

We wonder if the unexpected-ness of this home, featured in the Oregonian last week, comes from its situation behind a screen of bamboo and Japanese maples. Or it might be the hidden potential of the...

Hanging Art

We have so many items on our house to-do list that we need to cross off. One of the largest looming is getting art up on the walls. Back to our files of ideas and looky what we have here......

Look!: Hallway Art

Desire to Inspire blogged hallway art a couple of days ago. One of the photos they included was this one -- and as soon as we saw it, it made perfect sense. Small home, running out of wall space f...

Look!: Deb's Staircase Gallery

Last week while visiting a friend near the Marina we found it very difficult to get to the second floor of her house. The stairway was to blame. To be exact, the stairway wall above the landing is...