Using Sconces to Decorate Negative Space Near Big Art Pieces

Video Transcript

" My name is Craig Hale. I am an interior decorator and I am helping Expert Village.com today talk about ways to decorate your walls and different types of objects it is decorated with and also how to even arrange them on your wall. So you found your big piece of artwork. This time it is an inexpensive museum print 25 bucks max, framed it myself, probably another $25 plus the glass which is not going to cost you too terribly much. But you have hung it up here and you are looking at it, something that suggests not really right. There is too much negative space on either side of your print. So what you are going to do is you are going to find your pencil, your tape measure and nails and you are going to hang items on either side to fill in the negative space around this print. So the easiest thing to do is, I am a big fan of eyeballing so what you want to do is you want to kind of sort of hold it back, step back and look, have the center of this wall sconce in between the top and bottom of the print. Mark the very tip top of it and then taking your ruler measure from the top of the sconce down to the top of the hole for the nail and that is 8.25 inches. Good luck finding your spot again there it is and 8.25 inches marked on the wall. Now since these aren’t very heavy you do not really need super big nails. So I am going to just take these little bitty guys, pound them into the wall and then hopefully there Oh! God, that was easy it went on the first time. So then basically you are going to repeat this on the other side hanging the two sconces to fill up your negative space on the wall. "