How to display art on a large wall and not make it look like a museum
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How shall I frame/display these botanical prints plus other art?
Comments (36)Hi, Val, just thought I'd show you the botanicals I've framed, just to give you more ideas, but it sounds like you have it almost all figured out. I have enjoyed watching your room come alive! I got all my botanicals off Ebay too & decided to do ready-made frames and had custom mats cut to make the prints fit in my frames. I used 16x20 frames with inserts of 10x13 openings. My botanicals are slightly smaller than the insert, so to fill it out, I used black mats on all of mine & I love how it makes them look more important. That touch of black all around really makes the botanicals stand out, I think. Whether this is proper placement or not, I have no idea, but it worked for my eye. I have framed several sets of these in this same way & will show you all the pics of how I've used the black mat exactly the same way. These were standard black frames from Michaels & came with the ivory mats inside with the glass & these had a black border built in on the inner ivory mat already, I just added another custom black mat to fill in the space that I needed to fill to fit my botanical. I know you can't see all the details on these pics, but hopefully this will help you some: This one is open frames from Hobby Lobby & I bought standard mats & again added the custom black inner mat so the botanicals would fit. HL does a great job with adding mats & glass & very reasonable. These gold frames came from Tuesday AM & they had the ivory mats with gold edge already in them, along with the glass. All I did was again add the black inner custom mat & it was done. I found this to be the most cost effective way to frame these odd-shaped botanicals....See MoreMaking 2 Pieces of Complimentary Art Work Together
Comments (19)Love it so much, I had to find more info. on it. It is an updated terrazzo "look". The large scale instantly made me think it was something "new". Googled around... lots of misses until I typed in large scale painted terrazzo floor. I also thought it might be something new and interesting done with inkjet printing for tile. Anyway, first link was for an article about terrazzo making a comeback only large scaled....at apartment therapy.... right there on the page, there it was...lol, it says in the text, "This is maybe a bit much, but there's something undeniably cool about this bathroom tiled in a designer terrazzo called Marmoreal by dzek." Haha... it being a bit much is exactly why I love it! It is called Marmoreal... and it is an engineered marble in resin... real marble. I followed the links and see that it is made in London.... also, got the feeling that it would be way out of my price range...yup. Found a cheese board made out of it..a stinking cheese board costs 250 bucks! I think RockyBird could do something absolutely fabulous with this Marmoreal for her new bath. Apartment Therapy Marmoreal Interesting pics of it being used to cover large spaces, walls...See MoreLarge Wall art dilemma
Comments (49)I like the art and like the space but I think the aesthetics of each would be further enhanced if they were independent of each other. I would just get all or part of the painting group to paint one or more canvases scaled to size that include some lighter neutrals, and pass on the two larger boldly colored paintings to a space that has more of a Modern style and is better scaled to their size....See MoreWhat is wrong with this display of art prints?
Comments (17)I did not realize how many ideas influence hanging an art gallery. And all the points are good. I wish I could just remove all the 'stuff' but my 5 year old loves her toys, so for now it will stay. I hate the office desk and computer there, I will be trying to move it. However, I do thing too the black frames are too heavy. I love the idea of hanging them over the entire wall. But then also the pint about shiplap being a feature that would require only one pice of art is also good. Before I hung up this gallery, I did a lot of prep work. I cut the sizes of the frames out of brown craft paper and hung them on the wall to see how they would look. They did look much better than the picture frames themselves. So if identical brown paper frames look better, my conclusion would be that the colors of the picture frames are too many, or too heavy or both. I also agree that Matisse would need a white mat in the background and the largest picture needs to be replaced. First I will try to make lighter frames and hang them in a rectangle all over the wall and then use a frosted film for toy cabinet. And I. will post a picture here. And if that does not look nice I will just choose either 3 identical picture frames or 1 large picture over the cabinet....See Moreastraglam
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