Decorating with Wall Art and Accessories
Posted: Sunday, April 17, 2011
by Autumn Lockwood
YourPictureFrames.com
Since wall art tends to direct the eye down and across other items in a room, wall art and accessories should be the last things to go within a room. You want the rest of your decor to be finished to ensure that, when your wall art is finally hung, you are able to properly access the overall feel of the room. Should you have competing colors within your decor, the result can be made cohesive by using artwork that incorporates those competing colors. For instance, if you have more than one shade of red inside a room they might compete with each other, but hanging an item of artwork that incorporates many colors, including both shades of red, will bring everything together and gives it a cohesive look.
Elegant picture frames aren't the sole items that you can think about when decorating your walls. Other items that can be wall art include sculptures, sconces, photographs, paintings and prints, fiber or textile art (even rugs), framed mirrors, candleholders, architectural elements like corbels, and dishes.
How Can I Decorate If I Don't Own Much Art?
Should you not possess a lot of wall art and you need to incorporate art into your decor, go for one large piece that almost fills the wall space - a painting works best, perhaps something that has an ornate silver picture frame or any other color to match your decor. Using one large piece such as this also will simplify your decorating efforts.
Small inexpensive art may be enhanced if it is hung on walls painted with dark rich colors - it really makes the artwork, regardless of what size it is, pop!
Shared Wall Space
Sometimes - perhaps most of the time - your wall art will share the wall along with other accessories. Examples of combinations of wall art and accessories are: textile art and photographs; framed mirrors, art, and sconces; paintings and sconces; carved wall brackets and paintings. In case you are adding more than one accessory to a wall, it is a good plan get started on your arrangement in the middle of your wall. Begin with a central grouping, then add other items beside or underneath it.
Hang Your Collections On The Wall
If you have a set of similar works for instance line drawings or old botanical prints, hanging them in a large grouping on the wall is a great way to display your collection. A large grouping is another wonderful way that you can display your family photographs. Creating a family photo wall can be daunting, especially when you have several photographs you want to show. Here's a few ideas to make hanging groupings a bit simpler:
• All of the frames do not need to be precisely the same, but they need to be similar, like all silver, or all black, or gold, or another color or style that looks good utilizing your present decor.
• If you have got more than six or seven frames to hang, lay them out on the floor and move them around until you create a pleasing arrangement, then transfer them, one by one, on your wall beginning with the center.
• For a more pleasing arrangement, if they are photographs, they should all either be color or black and white (you can mix in some sepia photos with the black and white arrangement.) For anyone who is baffled as to what to accessorize your walls with, an ideal choice almost always is a framed mirror. It should always complement your room's decor and style, and in addition it ought to be large and dramatic.
Adding art and accessories into a room will be fun since you don't need to consider function, only what looks great.
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