The art consultant sent me a proposal for art in my living room! WDYT?
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Comments (38)What a great post! Everything from sheer beauty to the funniest of photos. I love Jeri's calm and peaceful cemetery. Joe's photos are exceptional. I can get lost in the fourth one of water reflections. Florence, your water colours are charming. How lucky you are to have such a talent. I particularly love the one of the vase of tulips on a windowsill. Ingrid, what beautiful images. I love the back lit garden scene in the fourth photo. Hoovb, I love it when you are being naughty! Sherry, One thing I have seen occasionally here in Crete that looks good in people's porches or covered terraces. They put up a few shelves on the wall, and then put a frame all round them. On the shelves they place small pots of succulents and other small plants. It becomes a picture of real plants, they look very charming. Failing that, you could use your picture of Sean in an orange nappy and hoovb's gnomes. Daisy...See MoreNeed help selecting artwork that will compliment purple artwork
Comments (31)Thanks all. I did go with the Allure Blossom. It's coming today. I don't think I could go with a mirror on that wall because there is a hutch to the right which has mirrors in it. I really like the purple and yellow bowl from Pier One; will see if they still have it or something similar. Might be sending more pictures of my next dilemma in the living room. Another picture where I can't seem to find another piece of art that compliments....See MoreArt or no Art over stone fireplace?
Comments (19)Thanks everyone. I agree on the drapes, they came with the house - don’t love them. But the in addition to the two windows on each side of the fire place there there is a very large window on the walls to right and the left. So this will be quite an expense that I was trying to avoid. But definitely an option and would do in a similar way as @BeverlyFLADeziner suggests. I also agree with a chunkier mantel, however the mantel replacement will require additional stone work, so unless I can modify what I have, vs. replace it - that is not an option. I will definitely keep my eyes open for Art, you have sent some great suggestions that I like a lot. I don’t think I will go with a mirror, as I had one up for awhile and hated the reflection.. as some has commented could be an issue....See Moreartwork advice in dining room
Comments (14)I am not very sophisticated in my graphics tools; I did all of this in Microsoft Word (if you are on an Apple device I can't help you). There are really a handful of tools you need to be able to use: Under Picture Tools, remove background , crop, and bring forward/send backward (so you can stack images in the order you want) Wrap text options. Right click on the pic, select Wrap Text, and choose "In front of text." This will let you position one image on top of another (which is why you need the bring forward/send backward tool, because stuff gets buried). Those are enough to get you started. You won't necessarily get a realistic-looking room, but you can still get a rough mock-up. And it can look pretty good if you are starting with a straight-on photo of the wall where you want to hang the art (it's what I did to "hang" the two paintings next to the window). More sophisticated tools and techniques include: Picture Tools/Picture Effects/3D rotation let me apply perspective to the paintings to match the perspective of the walls (like the painting I put next to the china cabinet). I used Picture Tools/Color when I wanted to make the floral painting look like it was under yellower lighting. To get the painting "behind" the buffet lamps, I snipped an image of the buffet lamps with the Snipping tool, stripped the background and then layered that on top of the artwork. So the stacking went (1) image of the room, (2) image of the artwork, (3) image of just the lamps with the background removed. There are lots of people here with better graphics skills (and tools) than me, but I've learned to do pretty well with what I have....See Morepamelamacleod
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