Unifying Artwork: Theme Gallery Walls

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While some of you might think that theme rooms are never okay, what about a more subtle approach? How about a themed gallery wall. We are definitely fans of this look, which seems to work best as a way to unify flea market finds. So instead of a random paint-by-number collection, maybe you just stick to landscapes. We love this look. Do you have any themed artwork collections?

• 1 vintage sports team photographs, Design Sponge
• 2 vintage portraits of ladies, Living Etc.
• 3 artwork featuring public figures from the 18th century, Country Living
• 4 seascapes, Cote Maison
• 5 bird themed wall, House Tour: Sam's Carriage House Meets Gypsy Caravan
• 6 nautical themed wall, WhiteApple: A Vintage Victorian Fantasy

Comments (12)

That first wall is really gorgeous!

I think it's more like displaying a collection than decorating around a theme.

Yep, and not on purpose. I realized two years ago when I moved that 80% of my artwork centered around photos of doorways and the other 20% centered around ocean sunsets. So, I'm doing two different themed walls.

It's not at all like theme decorating. It's curating.

I like to put artwork with other pieces that relate to it.

I have a 'collection' of landscapes I've photographed during my travels. They're not of any one type, although maybe you could categorize them as 'hiking/skiing/climbing photos'

My living room is all of my black and white photography and one installation type piece that is also white, and the dining room is all of the really pop/colorful stuff, with a collection of pieces over the fireplace that are all of a face or a group of faces. I think it works but I sometimes get bored with the lack of color in the living room art.

I have a collection of post cards from traveling in the US and around the world. I stuck with simple glass and clip frames and display them with artwork and sculpture I picked up on my trips.

one must becareful since it can quickly go wrong!

at my last place, i did this - all the art/posters on one wall were water-related; a Monet Venice print, a sailboat print, a print of Dufy's Baie des Anges and an old skyline of Toronto at sunset photo taken from the island.

in my new place, i will be putting all my cityscapes on one wall - the Toronto photo, one of NYC pre-2001, and Ottawa, where i lived before i came here. i'm not worried about adding anything else that strikes my fancy since i'm installing a picture rail system.

i wish all the picture groupings shown on this site were as pleasing and coherent as the ones in the examples above - unified by, theme, shape, colour, etc. and very tightly grouped to make one shape as a whole. just tacking random pictures up on a wall does not a grouping make.

I like this as well - I agree that grouping images that have some connective theme make them that much more cohesive and interesting.