Is it time to change up your home dcor scheme? These top tips will help you navigate your options for decorating with fine art.
Using the things that you love about your current dcor to cue your fine art choices is a great beginning for your new plans. The principle of repeating color is helpful here and can be a guidepost for all of your decorating efforts: Pick fine art that incorporates the colors you most love from a room to tie things together with a look that won’t grow stale too soon.
Decorating with fine art is easy if you let the art take the center stage. Although you should love every item in a room, using fine art as the leading piece or pieces prevents visual competition and the feeling that a room is too busy. Especially since fine art is designed to be admired it’s important to allow your pieces a bit of breathing room.
When decorating with fine art, remember that fine art is rarely created to stand all on its own. Using multiple pieces that have the same style or the same artist creates cohesiveness. Depending on the art’s subject it might also strengthen the meaning of the pieces that you have chosen. At the same time, don’t shy away from mixing and matching; decorating with fine art is all about what works for you. If you want to hang pieces from different artists or even mix your own fine art pieces with a studio find, you can!
Fine art may look fabulous on its original canvas or set off by a well-chosen frame. Here are a few things to consider when making your choice:
Whether framed or unframed, fine art is at its most attention getting when the center of the print or canvas is hung at average eye level, at about 57" from the floor. You might be tempted to hang your art higher or lower depending on the height of your ceilings, but this is actually a good rule to follow no matter what the ceiling height is in your room. However, if you feel comfortable changing it up with a big piece or are hanging multiple pieces in the same area, breaking this "rule" is allowable if you like the result!