What's on your walls?

mummybearx

I've just realised that I have no decoration on any walls in my house apart from one. We have a big picture frame up in the living room, filled with lots of spaces to put photos, it's been up about a year and I still have don't have a photo in it :rotfl:

I think I need some inspiration, my house never feels like a home, more somewhere I live iykwim?

What do you guys have, framed photos, prints, mirrors?

JoshuaAmorah

All 3 of the above. Everything matches with the furniture, you could almost call it a display home :rotfl:

beedeedee

Only ever "original" stuff - but not expensive artworks! Everything on our walls has a story behind it......and memories. No photo's though anywhere - it always seemed to me that folk who needed to have loads of family photo's weren't particularly happy - but that's only my observation. Nothing has cost a lot - sometimes it's a page of a book with an awesome phrase, or a child's first painting or painted footprint, a postcard from abroad, an (incorrect, thank goodness) gas bill for £10,000 and even a concert ticket has been framed or mounted. I just love the memories they all evoke.

bluebeary

paintings by local artists john boyd and avril paton

seven-day-weekend

In the sitting room we have framed original pastels done by my husband, also a large original framed batik by a local artist.

In the dining room we have two large bevelled oval mirrors, one in an oak frame and one shabby-chic in shades of white, a smaller bevelled oval mirror in oak and a smaller art deco mirror (dark room ).

In the stairwell we have more of my husband's paintings, this time in oils.

In the kitchen we have another, smaller, original batik, bought from an artist in Cordoba, Spain.

So...I know not everyone has access to original works of art, but you can buy some nice prints or posters and have them framed, mirrors are always good too.

Some people like photographs hanging on their walls, I don't, but that is another option.

(Edited because we have just changed things round and I forgot something!).

Debt_Free_Chick

Mirrors are great for increasing light and the feeling of space. A mirror opposite a window in a north-facing room can make a huge difference to how that room feels.

My sources of inspiration for this type of thing are the catalogues for home furnishings - which you can see online - from Laura Ashley, M&S, Farrow & Ball etc. If you see the whole room set out, with the wall stuff, it's much easier to imagine how your room could look, rather than simply viewing wall art on its own.

I was in Dunelm Mill (please, save me from that place!) yesterday and they have some great inexpensive "stuff" - mirrors, canvasses, "art". I think the knack is to have things that complement the room in style and colour - or, to have one single statement piece, but only if you want to draw attention to it.

One tip given to me many years ago, that seems to work .... small pieces should be displayed in a group of three. So one large print, or a group of three smaller ones.

Finally, position is all important, so measure the wall and position the stuff accordingly eg if a single item, then place it centrally in the centre of the wall .... or is that just my OCD kicking in? :eek:

kelpie35

nice colourful canvases, certainly no photos on my walls.

System

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lostinrates

Gosh....I envy those who have nothing but originals!

We have a mixture of stuff.

Most importantly its stuff that makes us happy (apart fro. Something inherited fro. Dh's mother which makes us happy in that its a link for him to her, if not the picture so much)

We have a few originals. The ones we have bought are exceptionally modest but o our taste and suit the rooms they go in. Others are gifts from artist friends, two are my families and of places I have lived and feel strong connection. Neither DH nor I are artists, and yet, there are a couple of have a bash pictures which hang. The best is one we did together with one of our dogs.


We have a couple of mirrors. These are to throw light around a dark corner. One is hung very high, ridiculously so, but it does its job.

We bought at Christmas a print on canvas from the National gallery . It makes up laugh, smile and creates a theme with other purchases. The option to own copies of great art is as exciting as it was when I was allowed to buy posters as a kid.

We don't have kids but occasionally a friends' kid will do some art at scholl that's given to me. These take pride of place on the side of my book shelves or walls for a long time.

We have some cheaper stuff two, a couple of tourist pictures which made us roar with laughter so flawed are they. DH has some tatty old Canaletto prints which he adores.

seven-day-weekend

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

Mirrors are great for increasing light and the feeling of space. A mirror opposite a window in a north-facing room can make a huge difference to how that room feels.

My sources of inspiration for this type of thing are the catalogues for home furnishings - which you can see online - from Laura Ashley, M&S, Farrow & Ball etc. If you see the whole room set out, with the wall stuff, it's much easier to imagine how your room could look, rather than simply viewing wall art on its own.

I was in Dunelm Mill (please, save me from that place!) yesterday and they have some great inexpensive "stuff" - mirrors, canvasses, "art". I think the knack is to have things that complement the room in style and colour - or, to have one single statement piece, but only if you want to draw attention to it.

One tip given to me many years ago, that seems to work .... small pieces should be displayed in a group of three. So one large print, or a group of three smaller ones.

Finally, position is all important, so measure the wall and position the stuff accordingly eg if a single item, then place it centrally in the centre of the wall .... or is that just my OCD kicking in? :eek:

... or indeed, a group of five or seven, as long as it is an odd number.

lostinrates

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

... or indeed, a group of five or seven, as long as it is an odd number.

Although IMO this kind of grouping of evens also works.

http://www.photography-art-cafe.com/image-files/fourbwframes.jpg