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| I have many more paintings than walls due to moving to a smaller house. I am loathe to give up many of them and feel like I already parted with too many. I love this look, and I am thinking I would like to try hanging loads of the paintings on the walls in my DR, LR and stairway/hallway upstairs.
Do you just have to have an eye for it? In some of these pictures like subjects are grouped, in some though they are not. They all still seem to work (at least to me). I know somewhere I have a picture from cattknap that I saved for inspiration. Do you think you need the layered look in everything for it to work? Meaning lots of accessories, fabrics and pillows too? I do not have that and am not sure I could pull that off with 4 cats that love to jump on everything. I am wondering if anyone has pictures of their homes with stacked pictures hung and would care to share how they pulled it off? Some inspiration pics I have saved (I think most are from Jennyfromtheblock - thank you jenny!)
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| I did this in my front foyer. Hardly anyone uses our front door, so our foyer is really just a "pass through" area. If it was a space that we actually hung out in, I might not be able to have this assortment of stuff on the wall because I'm too anal -- I'd be constantly questioning each placement or straightening everything! But this works for me. I have an assortment of photos, small paintings, and some little figures (and one fancy seashell) that are on tiny metal shelves. If you look closely, you'll see I also worked in my doorbell chime and lightswitch into the "arrangement." I laid it out pretty simply -- I taped off a large rectangular area on the wall, and just hung everything within the perimeter of that rectangle.
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- Posted by kcsunshine_2006 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 16, 09 at 18:29
Ooh, this is my favorite thing - I think they call it "salon style" art hanging. I have tons of inspiration pics, but I think this is my favorite -  I read recently to hang the one you want your eye to go to in the "center" of your appointed space, and then hang the other pieces around that one. Although it doesn't look like anyone did that in these examples! :) I would take any of these rooms - this is definitely my "style," whatever style it is! |
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| I did this in my LR with some of our stuff. It is not a heavily accessorized, over-stuffed kind of room at all. Though I haven't done floor-to-ceiling either. Once we sell the other place, there will probably be some more art added to this mix, but I wanted to get it hung and start enjoying it now. I had never done this kind of arrangement before so it is sort of experimental. What worked for me was to not hang any one really strong piece, everything is very soft. And the colors all related, across the composition, in a balanced way.
The cabinet is just a "place-holder" until we find the right piece for the audio equipment. (I seem to have a lot of place-holders in the LR these days!) And yes, those giant things on either side are speakers...in my LR....I know... my DH is a lucky man! :) |
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| I definately don't have the knack, but my dh does. One thing he does and that I notice they do in many of the pics above is to have some of the lines matching up. That is, say the outside of the frames on one side will all line up and maybe two on top will have the same line across the top. Don't make it all perfectly lined up but there should be some of it going on, |
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- Posted by kcsunshine_2006 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 16, 09 at 19:04
| Budge, in my first inspiration pic, the bottom row all lines up on the bottom. I like that look. And I like it that one is leaning up against the wall on the floor - so casual, yet so elegant... |
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| Drool. Boop, those first 2 pics are glorious. I love that elegant yet gathered yet comfortable look. Everything is beautiful, but it doesn't look so imposing that you couldn't plop down with a good book. My "method" of hanging art is terrible. I just start pounding nails into the wall and keep moving them until the pictures look right! |
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| My kind of post! I quite, quite like it! I think one of the "tricks" is to not have too much space in between the pieces -- if so, it'll look disjointed and careless. In our penultimate house we had this: and in this house we have this: And these two with which I am not entirely happy ... yet:
Can you see what I mean about too much space in between the frames? Troubling ... but it serves me right for doing it with my two year-old as assistant! Needs to either be closer together or (and this will occur, tonight!) more things smushed in. These are in our den:
But boopadaboo, I'm a jumbled lover. That's what appeals to me so much about your inspiration photos: there is so much stuff: so many patterns, so many textures, so many bibelots. We do have the occasional (and I do mean occasional) piece hung by itself, but I just find it so much happier to have everything together. |
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| I like using several items, but can only take so many. Reno, the easiest way to arrange a group of pictures, plates, whatever for your wall is to trace the items on paper and lay out the arrangement. You can even tape them to the wall first - makes for a lot less nail holes. tina |
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- Posted by love-my-lilhome (My Page) on Mon, Feb 16, 09 at 22:36
| This is a corner in my computer room. I'm not sure they are hung right but I love them. Each one is a memory of a "moment".
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- Posted by love-my-lilhome (My Page) on Mon, Feb 16, 09 at 22:51
| I need to clarify the "memories". I'm not in any of the pictures but each brought a bygone memory. I love pictures that invoke from within don't you? |
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- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 9:43
| I am so excited. Thank you Thank you! I think I have figured out a whole bunch of pics for one room that wasnt even on my list. :) KC - I had never heard of Salon Style. I did a search and found even more lovely inspiration pics. RMKitchen - Hurray! It totally makes sense about the space in between the pics and I think that is why it looks "off" to me sometimes. I just hadnt' been able to figure it out. Cattknap - that is exactly the picture I have saved. I think it is on my old computer. Thank you for posting it again. I have always loved that room of yours. I wasnt sure if I was going to be able to get my question across and had been hestitating posting. I am so happy I did now. I have heard of that paper method Tina, I am just not sure I have the floor space for it. :) Reno I love those first two pics also. Someday I hope to move back to an old home with high ceilings and lots of character. In the meantime I will have to try to get a look going in this house. |
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| Pictures should never be hung up close to the ceiling, so people viewing get a stiff neck, and they should not be so low to the floor, that a person viewing needs to get down on their knees to view, or bend upside down, that is simply ridiculous, and too many, or way too different is nothing more then clutter, I grew up with an artist father and a home full of oil paintings, all attractively hung, and now my home is as well, and I might add this business of measuring is silly, mine are hung at different heights to suit arrangement as well as wall height, as they should be, as far as eye level, well that would depend on your height and also silly... |
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| IMO - if a group of pictures is hung near ceiling or near floor and makes sense - if it works...it works! Jim Here's a pic I took when I was playing w/the arrangement one day for an alternate look, I took the mirror down and added two pictures in it's place.
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- Posted by kitchendetective (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 12:48
| I have a guest room with a sleeping loft for kids. I hung the pictures in the loft at eye-level for 4-7 year-old children. |
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- Posted by oakleyok (poesanabel@aol.com) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 12:52
| Over the years, my MIL made us some great stitchings she had framed. They're the most intricate work ever and they're gorgeous. I have around 15 of them and will group most of them in the new room. I always begin with the largest and prettiest, then expand up and out on either side, then below, etc. It's not hard if you lay the pics on a floor first to give you an idea of what it would look like on the wall. And I always use straight pins with heads on them, except for the heavier ones where I use teeny tiny nails. A picture has never fallen off yet! |
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| rmkitchen, groovin' to your walls...all the different aesthetics are just like ours... |
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| I also wanted to say that this thread is making me feel a whole lot better about our walls, which are somewhat *full* with my Goodwill finds :) |
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- Posted by allison0704 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 13:30
| When we moved, I had the same problem, Boop. Too many large windows. Not enough wall space. My grandmother's handkerchief I had framed were hanging in the stairwell of our last home. We did line it up there. DH is good, so it was fairly easy. Walls were not pink/peach, btw. lol
Here, I wanted a more random look. Sunroom:
I have numerous antique etchings and signed/numbered pieces. I have been adding on to the leftovers in the stairwell ever since we moved in. Looks like I'm close to being finished. It's virtually impossible to take a decent looking picture - they are hung randomly, have large spaces between, I stay away from "lines" everyone was talking about above. The ones farther away seems closer together, but it is an optical illusion.
Susieq, just because someone does something different than what you like or do in your home doesn't automatically make it wrong or "silly." Yes, some things done in decorating are wrong (I could give you many examples), but I keep my mouth closed and do not dare go down that path. |
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- Posted by artlover13060 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 13:56
| I don't have the look, but I like it. Here's a Pottery Barn video that shows some ways to create the "New Family Wall." |
Here is a link that might be useful: The New Family Wall
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| (allison, just let it roll off your back :)) |
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- Posted by bronwynsmom (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 14:16
| I have too many things for this house as well...and I love agglomerations on the wall. What works best to my eye is for each piece to have enough mat and/or frame to set the images apart, even if there isn't a lot of space between the frames. I also like to set boundaries, so that there is a clean rectangle created by the outside edges of the grouping, and then shift one or two things out of bounds either at the top and bottom, or at the two sides, depending on the shape of the wall space. (I usually shift top and bottom in a tall narrow space, and left and right in a long horizontal one.) Any time you can create an implied grid underlying the arrangement, you get a more intentional and calmer look...you can keep all the middle row's images at the same eye level, for instance, and let that establish what you start with. And I like to lay the whole business out on the floor and mess it about until it suits me. |
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| Allison you're absolutely right, if you don't think it's silly, when you have guest down on their knees to get a better look at your art, or ask for a ladder, then I say go for it!!different strokes as they say, besides some art is better viewed far, far away, the other day our local TV station showed John Lennon's art being shown locally, and I gagged, from what I saw most 10 year olds do better art...and people buy this crap,at high prices, they could have their kid do it for free..have seen some in galleries, were good for nothing but a good laugh..I know it's in the eye of the beholder, well I behold art that looks like a live scene, true nature or a real person, or animal, but hey, that's just me... |
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- Posted by fondantfancy (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 14:34
| have you seen this on how to hang art in groups? |
Here is a link that might be useful: How to hang art in groups
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- Posted by allison0704 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 17:03
| That link goes back to this thread, fondantfancy. |
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| I actually use graph paper or Excel to plot out the groupings. Sometimes I have to switch things around some once I get the actual pictures up there, but it usually works very well. |
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| Here's a grouping I like in my LR. It's funny how the photo doesn't look like real life - the mats are not that bright white and the room is more subdued in color, so it just looks better than here. I got this idea actually from a Restoration Hardware catalog. I loved their grouping and found small prints of famous paintings and mounted them in the frames. |
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- Posted by artlover13060 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 18:34
| Interior design is an art. Like all art, it takes many forms. While we choose a particular style for our own homes, an understanding of design allows us to appreciate (and discuss) many styles. Realistic art is one style of art, but there are many others. To say that only realism is art is to discount centuries of art and the art of most non-Western cultures. |
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- Posted by madtown_2006 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 19:41
| There are some great inspirations here, I love it! I don't have very many big walls (lots of windows and doors) but I love the look of these arrangements. Here is my first attempt at a photo arrangement. Not very big, but I still consider it a success :) |
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| I love this thread! And I'm now off to shop my house for some art to shuffle around :D |
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| Here is a grouping I have in the living room. They're all oil paintings except for the small picture in the lower row with the ornate frame which is petit point needlepoint that's been in my family for many years. The duck picture on the bottom in the middle was painted by my husband. The antlers belonged to a great uncle and the Chinese birds were bought in an antique store as were some of the paintings.
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| I'm bumping this thread up because I made my husband take these pictures especially for this post and it would be nice if someone could see them. |
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| Thanks for this thread! I love this style and so many of the lovely pics posted. I've done this with my collection of original oil landscapes in our stairway and have had many compliments on it. IMO one does not have to naturally "have the eye" for it, but I think it helps to look at a lot of examples before hanging one's collection. There are many ways to arrange them and perhaps seeing what others have done might provide some ideas. |
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| This is a grouping I've always liked which are somewhat randomly placed. I think these pics may be copyrighted so here's the link. |
Here is a link that might be useful: original art grouping
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- Posted by fondantfancy (My Page) on Wed, Feb 18, 09 at 2:42
| Oops - sorry about the earlier link I hope I got this one right |
Here is a link that might be useful: How to hang art in groups
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- Posted by lafonda_ranch (My Page) on Wed, Feb 18, 09 at 9:37
| I love this thread, too!! Growing up, my grandmother had a cathedral ceiling in her living room with a huge space behind her couch. We had a painter in the family and she had many of his oils hung on the wall, all the way up. It looked great (I wish I had a picture of her wall!).I now have a similar setup and have struggled with how to hang things on the wall. This thread has helped my revisit this. Once I get my two oils reframed, I'll be back for a critique. Thanks! |
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| I take no credit for the idea, it came from one of you, but here are the photos I have started mounting on the ceiling in my attic bedroom. What a great idea to show all those pictures of my kids I just had to have done when they were little, not to mention the school portraits!
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| Brilliant inspiration in this thread! This is exactly the look I love and crave for my own home! I thought my walls were already full ... but maybe I could squeeze some more in there somewhere! ;-) Oh, and when my guests get down on their hands and knees or up on a ladder to view my art, I'll just have them clean something while they're at it. >;-)~ |
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| I'm so loving this thread. I LOVE the pics on the sloped ceilings! Oh, and by the way, if your guests are staring at pictures long enough to get a stiff neck or they find they can't simply glance down at a low-level picture, I have to wonder about the mental status of said guest! I'd frankly be worried if one of my guests stood in one position long enough to actually get a stiff neck, and I may be inclined to call an amublance for them, as I would assume they were having some sort of silly-art-viewing seizure. |
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| auntjen, I love your sense of humor! Would like to see your pictures too. The more the merrier, it's not only eye candy but very inspiring. I love the family pictures amylville has put on her ceiling. Not only beautiful but incredibly innovative. I wish I could think of things like that. It must have been quite a project though, having everything aligned so perfectly. |
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| OK, full credit for the picture on the ceiling goes to annathome. Thank you for the inspiration. The ceiling is beadboard so lining the up is a breeze (for me, my husband is the one who is doing the labor) although they are far from perfectly aligned I am forbidden to critique or I will be hanging them myself! |
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| I too am happy to see this issue raised. I love the look of many items hung as an aggregate. This post "gives me permission" to do this on three other walls in my house!!!! Thanks. |
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- Posted by sandyponder (My Page) on Wed, Feb 18, 09 at 19:22
| Thanks to all who posted actual and inspirational pics, they are all great. I aspire to the "art" of hanging, but am still on a major learning curve. Here's a pic of my latest (but surely not last) attempt in our LR. sandyponder
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- Posted by cooperbailey (My Page) on Wed, Feb 18, 09 at 22:38
| amyville the pics in the link dont show up now. Can you repost them? I keep telling my DH that yes we can use that ceiling in the attic for photos or paintings but he is reluctant. Seeing is believing. I would love to do this in my house but the only artwork I have room for are my DDs paintings. And she uses very large non standard size canvases. So did my Gmom! If I had a huge huge wall and 10-12 foot ceilings maybe I could make it work. ( after I pay for or make custom frames) Maryland peeps and vistors remember Haussners? that was the first time I had ever seen walls covered in paintings. It was so fun! |
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| Allison0704, I just love the arrangement of your pictures going up the steps and after my busy season, I may use your stairway as an inspiration picture to help me get started on my stairway decorating project. |
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- Posted by maureeninmd (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 11:56
| This has been a helpful thread. I have some small, but nice, prints that I keep piled on top of my linen closet because I don't know how to hang them. Ingrid - your paintings are beautiful - what a lovely grouping! |
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- Posted by walkin_yesindeed (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 12:01
| here's what Martha has to say about it -- the be-all and end-all of decorating advice, of course. Seriously, I do very much like her last suggestion, which uses a "strong center line" and frames in the same color to make pics of different sizes look graphically interesting and organized. Cool approach. Love the ideas in this thread! Allison, beautiful pics! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Martha on arranging pictures
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| This is a great thread. We are currently looking for art for over our sofa - I keep looking for that one nice piece, but may have to readjust my thinking. I have other smaller groupings throughout the house. This thread does tell me one thing, though - I don't have enough art! Shopping I must go.... |
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- Posted by allison0704 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 12:28
| Thank you, Lynn and Walkin. I told DH I've gotten several and placed there that I would like to see more often. I will need to keep looking and buy more that I love (European architectural, big on bridges too). But I'm afraid DH will have to paint that wall - I've been moving around while adding and so far have been able to hide the holes! |
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- Posted by mistybear11 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 14:30
| I love all the inspiration(more like eye candy) of all the ways to display treasures shown on this thread. I only wish I had more pictures to display to capture what you have all done. I think I did what Martha was describing when I hung the family pics on the hallway wall.I hung pics either above or below an imaginary line at eye level while standing on the stair landing.  |
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- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 14:49
| Misty you are so right - eyecandy! I am so psyched to get going on my DR project this weekend. I won't have the fabric for my drapes but I do have the rods and I think I can work around that. Or at least narrow it down to which kind of paintings I think will work in the DR vs somewhere else in the house. Thank you all for posting and sharing your pics. I think luckygal said it helps to keep looking at examples so you can start working on your own project. She was so right. The more I see the more I feel like I can make it work. Fingers Crossed, otherwise there will be lots of holes in the wallpaper I already don't like! :) |
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| One of my very favorite art galleries display the art in the salon style. I love it. If you are even remotely interested in fine art and find yourself in Philadelphia, you must visit.
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| Well this thread has helped me decide......what I will do with my "big wall". For over a year we have been trying to decide how to handle our "stair wall". It's big and really blank. It goes up 2 complete stories. We thought about a quilt, we thought about Fathead ( the complete Pittsburgh Steelers) LOL but I knew if I waited it would "come" to me. Over the last few days reading this thread and looking at my farm house decorating books I love, I have decided to do the stacked pics wall. I must say I adore some of these pics....esp the dog prints. I collect horse prints (occupational hazard). I prefer certain artists, and much prefer portraits of named horses. Since many are antiques and already framed, they will never be similarly framed. I think I will like this electic look. Here's a pic of part of the wall. Hopefully this weekend we can start "hanging". I am anxious to see all my loved prints again! (Not to mention it means I have room to shop for more! Yeah wall space!) I post some progress pics as get some pics up! |
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| Wow!!! This thread is bringing back some wonderful memories! CB, as you may remember, I grew up in Baltimore and remember Haussner's very well. Though I only ate there once or twice, it was legendary. Haven't thought about that place in years. Thanks, Hon! I took DH to the Barnes back when they only let in 50 people per day and then only on weekends. You had to call well in advance to book. I took him there on a surprise outing for the first birthday we spent together, followed by a dozen-or-so course meal for Chinese New Year at the Chinese Cultural Center. I think he was probably already in love with me, but the Barnes sealed the deal! :-) Sandyponder, I just want to say how nice it is to see your pics. I remember when you started posting more a while back and you claimed your style was too eclectic to post. That made me a bit crazy! Glad to see you are bringing your unique style to the table. |
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- Posted by kcsunshine_2006 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 23:39
| Another of my inspiration pics - from my hero, Magnaverde, in O at Home magazine last fall -
I have a collection of stuff that I'm going to hang this way, as soon as I get some other stuff done...Forum, look out - I have questions coming! |
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- Posted by simpletaste (My Page) on Fri, Feb 20, 09 at 6:34
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| This thread is going to turn us all into picture hoarders. (I know because I'm already there...) |
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| No kidding, Flyleft. I've spent entirely too much time perusing eBay for more artwork these past couple of days ... |
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| simpletaste, I couldn't help but laugh at that picture: could you see someone making the statue walk along the tabletop, saying "Watch out where you're going while you're carrying that baby! Big boulders in the way!" |
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| Or maybe I've spent too much time playing with DD's china animals recently... (auntjen, now I'm thinking we'll all be bidding against each other LOL) |
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- Posted by tradewind_64 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 20, 09 at 16:43
| LMBO at auntjen and flyleft. Picture hoarders! You guys, I already own no less than 17 vintage oil portraits of ladies. After I read this thread and saw these beautiful pics (all who posted, THANK YOU for the candy!), I now feel like I have hardly any and desperately need more. So now I have to get out of my coffee-stained yoga pants and baggy-Tshirt, in which I was QUITE comfortable, put on some decent clothes, and go peruse an antique/thrift store or two before they close. D*mn this thread! Joanna |
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- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Sat, Feb 28, 09 at 11:29
| You are all enablers! I can't stop looking for more on ebay either. DH will kill me if I buy more before I get what I have up on the walls. I think since I was going for the one piece per area look in my last house that many of my paintings are too big to work with the "salon look" I think that means I need more smaller art pieces! :) |
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- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Sun, Mar 1, 09 at 16:26
| Just wanted to say thanks again. I finally got the time and emptied the mess out of the DR and we hung pictures. It still needs drapes, and eventually a wall color, but DH and I are very happy with the way the picture hanging went. I tried to find paintings that "went" together for one reason or another in my mind. I am sure it could be better, but overall we have lots of pretty paintings hung in the room in a way we can enjoy so we are pleased.
The back wall pic didnt come out for some reason. I never would have thought to experiment this way without all your help. :) I will probably add a few here or there as I find them. |
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- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Sun, Mar 1, 09 at 20:41
| I’m loving looking at everyone’s picture groupings also! I have so many things in storage I need to get hung up, this is really motivating me. Boop – your dining room is going to be really lush looking once you get some long draperies hung in there. I really like all the pictures you have hung. I’m adding a few more pictures from my décor photo archives below…the first two are from Elle Décor, the third, ED or House Beautiful, and the fourth is Bunny Williams. |
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| What wonderful pics! And **gulp** -- scored two more paintings on eBay today! |
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| Bumping this thread because I had so much fun looking at it. Great inspiration for me. |
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- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Fri, Mar 20, 09 at 10:18
| One last update because it makes me happy everymorning. I HATE our Master Bathroom. 80's/early 90's grey black and white with grey sink and matching toilet etc. No money in the near future and probably for at least 5 years to re do it either. :( For whatever reason this thread gave me the idea to gather all the pictures I had collected over the years that had no place else to be in this house and I hung them all in the bathroom. I also got a cheap towel set and matching rugs in deep plum from Penneys and now I LOVE the bathroom. It is probably even more 80's looking then ever, but it makes me smile. The frames on all the botanicals prints is dark purple:
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| Add me to the list of those who love this thread. Five or so years ago I found myself at a New Years Eve party at the home of a sculptor and painter. Within a few minutes of arriving, I understood the joy of living with a lot of art. A number of my friends are professional artists, and I'm fortunate that they've been generous. Plus my mother was an artist, and I'm an avid photographer. So I have lots of meaningful pieces on my walls. But this house doesn't have all that many walls (some were removed, plus we have big windows), and now my cousin, a painter, has started sending me wonderful portraits of the two of us as children, as well as paintings of my gardens. And I've been working on my dad's eminently frameable b&w photographs from the 1940s. Oy! Where will I put everything?? With your help, I'm sure I'll think of something.... Susan |
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- Posted by threedgrad (My Page) on Tue, Apr 14, 09 at 2:40
| This grouping is in the current dining room:
This grouping was in previous residence dining room: The mirror in 2nd photo is now above sofa in new residence. |
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| I'm so glad this thread got bumped because right now all my pictures are in storage except one. With the new room and remodeled other rooms (in the process), I have NO idea where to put the old pictures. Putting the first nail in a new wall is kind of scary! |
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- Posted by declansmom (My Page) on Tue, Apr 14, 09 at 10:01
| I can't tell you how happy I am to see this thread. Even though I love a clean, uncluttered look, this has always been my favorite way of decorating....with lots and lots of things on the walls. I could just sit in a room filled with art, a big comfy chair, a reading lamp, a cup of coffee (and of course, my furbaby) and nothing else and be perfectly happy. Great pictures everyone. |
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- Posted by dilly_dally (My Page) on Tue, Apr 14, 09 at 11:50
| I was so inspired by this thread. I had so many pics I had picked up at thrift stores and garage sales that I just loved but thought I just had no place to hang them permanently. I usually stored most of them, and rotated them to change the look of the room. I, right now at this moment have them all laid out on my floor ready for hanging Salon Style. I am nailing them to the walls today. I was so surpired to see this thread bumped up here today. I want to thank everyone who shared their photos of their Salon Style wall art and the links to show how to do it correctly. |
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- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Sat, Jun 20, 09 at 9:28
| There are a couple of current threads on hanging pictures that reminded me of this thread. I am going to attempt to hang all the black and white etchings and pictures I have soon in my hallway and up the stairs. I thought I would look back for some more inspiration. Anyone else have pics to share? |
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- Posted by justgotabme (My Page) on Sat, Jun 20, 09 at 17:26
Goah, how could I have missed this thread? I love groupings of art/photos on walls. Some times it seems the more the better. Other times a few works, but gosh I love loads of art groupings. Right now the below picture is the only place I have a grouping in our home. We're still not to that stage in most rooms. This is our main entry. I started collecting the crosses while we were building. Thought I'd put them up as they were, but when it came time to hang them it wasn't going to work out that way so I painted them alike.....  |
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- Posted by artlover13060 (My Page) on Sat, Jun 20, 09 at 23:47
| I love the crosses! Are they old? Your display is very attractive. |
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| justgotabeme, I love your display! Just gorgeous! I really love symmetry, even though as an aspiring artist, I probably shouldn't, lol. |
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