How to Design a Wall with Many Photos
In a home or office, a bare wall looks cold and uninviting. Even if the walls have bright, fresh paint, walls without wall hangings lack personality and creativity. An average-size wall can accommodate more than one framed photo, and groups of photos help homeowners express themselves. In order to design a wall with many photos, follow a few simple steps to ensure an aesthetically pleasing grouping. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Brown craft paper
- Scissors
- Frames
- Photos
- Painter's tape
- Wall hanging hooks
- Pencil
Instructions
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Choose the photos that you want to display on your wall. Consider the room in which the photos will hang. For instance, photos of food or families gathered to eat are ideal for a kitchen wall.
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Write down the dimensions of each of photo. Take this list to a local store and purchase frames in the necessary sizes. For rooms that are formal or follow a particular design style, select frames that are similar in color, shape and style. Choose frames in a variety of shapes and colors for rooms that are more whimsically designed.
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Place each frame on brown craft paper, and carefully trace a line around them with a pencil. Cut each of these shapes out.
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Use painter's tape to affix the craft paper shapes onto the wall. This enables you to arrange and move the cutouts until you are happy with the arrangement, without hanging and rehanging the frames.
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Decide on a way to arrange the craft paper cutouts based on the size of the frames or the content of the photos. For instance, if there is one frame that is much larger than the others, place this one in the center and arrange smaller frames around it. If one photo is more brightly colored than the others, place it in or near the center.
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Keep the photos at or near eye level. Jeff Shore, head preparator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, says that the human eye prefers art hung around eye level. Shore adds that it is the center of the piece, not the top or bottom, that should be at eye level. Most art galleries hang their pieces so that the centers hang at an average of 60 inches from the floor.
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Use a pencil to lightly mark the top and bottom edges of the craft paper cutouts. Remove one cutout and replace it with a corresponding-sized framed photo. Use wall hanging hooks to hang the photo securely. Repeat this for each cutout and frame.
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References
- Photo Credit picture frame corner image by Jim Mills from Fotolia.com
