I've wanted to share this with you for some time now. Creating gallery wall vignettes with a wide variety of artwork and found objects is what my house is made of. Just a couple weeks ago, Hayley and I set out to hang artwork on the walls of our entertainment space in the new kitchen. Over the next few months, I'm going to share with you the updates that we've made over the course of the last year (still ongoing :/). So to kick it off, I'm sharing with you the process I use for hanging artwork on the walls.
I love taking medium to small sized blank walls and create little galleries with a wide range of artwork and objects. I hope this can serve as inspiration and motivation to get your creative side going and hanging some artwork!!
As an introduction, this space is quite the multi-functional spot. We dine and craft and relax in this space. We have no formal dining area, so I wanted to tone down the gigantic black box in the middle with some lively artwork and clean up the bar from the artwork I had piled on there so we could use it as a buffet when company comes over. Getting the art from the counter to the walls really cleaned up the space so much. So let me take you through the space....
So let's get on to hanging artwork!
These are my must-have tools for hanging art work.
I really love the above hangers. They're really stable and great for heavy pieces, especially if you're not hammering into a stud. You can find these at home depot, but they're in various sizes in the Fixa set. Seriously, $5 very well spent there. I've had that little set for a couple of years, and it's well worth it. It's self-contained which makes it easy to keep from the children "playing" with the materials.
Finding ways to unify pieces is great. Sometimes if you have a variety of styles that you want to bring together (like, for example, family portraits in a wide range of eras and styles). But hanging artwork on every wall in your house in the exact same frames gets really stale. So start collecting art and objects in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and frames! This is where being a little scatter-brained and ADHD comes in handy.
Collecting a variety of prints, original art, found objects gives you lots of variety, texture and depth. But by having a variety, you need to find ways to bring back unity.
Grouping pieces together that have similar color schemes and making sure that art is spaced evenly brings in consistency that the eye enjoys.
HOT TIP: if you stand back from your grouping (whether on the wall or the floor as a mock-up), defocus your eye. You'll see what spots are visually more heavy and where to add pieces.
Gallery walls don't need to fit into a tight rectangular shape. As you'll see from the grouping on the top right hand side, that it peeks out of the rectangle, but it takes up roughly the same negative space as the tighter grouping on the left.
So what do you think? Will you be hanging art vignettes on your walls any time soon?
As an introduction, this space is quite the multi-functional spot. We dine and craft and relax in this space. We have no formal dining area, so I wanted to tone down the gigantic black box in the middle with some lively artwork and clean up the bar from the artwork I had piled on there so we could use it as a buffet when company comes over. Getting the art from the counter to the walls really cleaned up the space so much. So let me take you through the space....
So let's get on to hanging artwork!
These are my must-have tools for hanging art work.
I really love the above hangers. They're really stable and great for heavy pieces, especially if you're not hammering into a stud. You can find these at home depot, but they're in various sizes in the Fixa set. Seriously, $5 very well spent there. I've had that little set for a couple of years, and it's well worth it. It's self-contained which makes it easy to keep from the children "playing" with the materials.
Finding ways to unify pieces is great. Sometimes if you have a variety of styles that you want to bring together (like, for example, family portraits in a wide range of eras and styles). But hanging artwork on every wall in your house in the exact same frames gets really stale. So start collecting art and objects in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and frames! This is where being a little scatter-brained and ADHD comes in handy.
Collecting a variety of prints, original art, found objects gives you lots of variety, texture and depth. But by having a variety, you need to find ways to bring back unity.
Grouping pieces together that have similar color schemes and making sure that art is spaced evenly brings in consistency that the eye enjoys.
HOT TIP: if you stand back from your grouping (whether on the wall or the floor as a mock-up), defocus your eye. You'll see what spots are visually more heavy and where to add pieces.
Gallery walls don't need to fit into a tight rectangular shape. As you'll see from the grouping on the top right hand side, that it peeks out of the rectangle, but it takes up roughly the same negative space as the tighter grouping on the left.
So what do you think? Will you be hanging art vignettes on your walls any time soon?