This Easy Art Hanging Idea Is the Update to the Gallery Wall You’ve Been Looking For

updated May 3, 2019
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(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)

Ahh the gallery wall. It’s an efficient way to display a lot of art and take up a large swath of wall real estate, making a big visual statement. It’s an awesome design solution when you have an awkward space to fill. It’s a classic, timeless, and beautiful way of showing off your art collection. But it’s been done before. In unexpected arrangements. In these 50 different ways. If you’re looking for a fresh update to the gallery wall, you’ll love this layered look. It’s just different enough to energize your art displays, and it’s easy and cheap to do, too.

(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)

It was instantly clear from the RV tour we did with interior stylist Liz Kamarul that she’s got style. But this is a designer (and, full disclosure, a dear friend now!) with fresh ideas I’ve never seen before. She’s constantly coming up with new ways to style the New Orleans home she shares with her husband Tim and their very adorable dogs Bo and Cudi. I’ve fallen completely in love with a recent art display in their bedroom, and it’s so simple, so elegant, I’m kicking myself for not thinking it up myself first!

(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)

“I love gallery walls, always have and probably always will, but I’m constantly trying to find different ways to create them,” writes Liz. “A layered gallery wall is much easier to achieve than you might think and you need very little supplies to make it happen.” And she means little. The secret to this sophisticated, hip, layered wall art collage? It’s annoyingly easy and cheap:

(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)
(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)

It’s literally just using extra long nails in the wall to hang art pieces in front of other art pieces.

Supplies:

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Liz shares how to make her layered gallery wall happen: “Make sure that the art you select to layer on top of other pieces has a hook or a hole on the back that will keep the nail attached to the artwork at all times to ensure that it won’t easily fall off of the wall.”

(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)

“Once you’re happy with the placement of the art pre-hammer just the nail into the wall and then remove the nail and attach it to the artwork.”

(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)

“Now you can easily push the attached art onto the wall without actually having to hammer the artwork itself.”

(Image credit: Liz Kamarul)

“That’s all there is to it!”

Love the art on her wall, too? Liz shares that some of the pieces are from Umasqu, Marianne Angeli Rodriguez, and Etsy store AmandaNorthArt.