Sometimes it's exciting to take risks, and this is true in decorating as much as anyplace else in life. If you're looking for new ideas on how to fill your walls, we have a few suggestions on how to spice them up with unusual picture hanging arrangements.
1. A fairly homogeneous grouping of artwork is given an interesting spin by hanging each piece from a ribbon above the frame. While there is a relaxed symmetry to the overall arrangement, things are left dangling at different heights and angles.
2. We usually imagine picture walls to spread out over a space that is oriented horizontally. This collection makes use of an awkward expanse through an archway and behind a door by allowing the architectural details to act as a larger frame.
3. Frames are placed above one another suspended by picture wire with visible hook hardware. The overall effect is that viewers see the mechanism by which the art hangs on the wall, and the compositions within the artwork are only a part of what's on display.
4. Unrelated paintings are spaced evenly along an expanse of wall, and the overall effect is more like an organized collage; no one image is more prominent than another.
5. Sepia-toned photographs and ink drawings are arranged vertically alongside another similarly-displayed collection of unassociated objects. The frames sometimes act as support for small decorative pieces.
Images: 1. Pink Pianos; 2. Myndu Interior Design; 3. Coco Målé; 4-5. decorology.
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I actually have a collection of the same picture that I have hanging in a line in a vaulted area of my living room. I'm also going to hang 12 similar small pictures in my bathroom. Live these examples!
Love #3.
Oh if I only had an arched doorway like #2!
And #3, maybe I'll adopt it -- it looks pretty good to me, and would address my SO's phobia of putting holes in walls.
I already do a variation of #3 and #5...perhaps inspired by similar items being hung (sepia photos and antique lithographs, including a bigger version of the same Geo. Washington one in #3!). The method used in #3 is currently driven by the limits of my rental space (in an 1866 building) which has a few rooms with picture rail and walls that won't take a nail; in the spaces with plaster walls, I do something like #5, interspersing framed images and small paintings with items picked up traveling (carved beads, Ganesh statue), at flea markets (antique scientific equipment, jewelry, statuary), and outdoors (twigs, rocks, bark, dried leaves).
Someone really had fun with the drill in the first picture!!!!
I want to see the same fun when having to patch everything up if the decor is changed ;)
I love #s 2 and 3. I love cluster artwork arrangements! In my own home one thing I've done when mixing artwork with different frames is make sure you have some common colors in the pictures and disperse them evenly throughout the grouping. Meaning the three pictures with red in them don't all go on the same side. It really helps give a method to the madness.
I love love this. Esp. #1 and #2. But all of it, really. I am so obsessed with art arrangements. Thanks for this!
#1 is so fantastic! Reminds me of a patchwork quilt...
why do people hang jackalopes, anyway?
Love 1..going to try it in my half bath!!
I wonder what works better, having a whole arrangement of similar pictures, having similar frames or having them arranged with a certain space between them?
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I have always hated #3. Still do.