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You finally found the perfect piece of art you want in your house, and you’re ready to hang it up. There are so many ways to place and appreciate your new art so that you don’t end up putting it somewhere where it seems out of place. By putting your art in the correct spot and complementing the colors, your art will jump off of the wall into the rest of the room.
- 1 Make the painting the focal point of the space. Put the painting in the center of the wall that you want to hang it on and decorate the room around the painting. The center of the painting should be hung at eye-level. However, if you plan on arranging different pieces around it, you may want to hang it off-center. [1]
- For the bedroom, the painting should be hung either above the bed or on the wall that faces the bed. The painting should not be wider than the bed as it will look too large.
- The painting should be above the couch or across from the couch in the living area. If you’re hanging a painting above the fireplace, be sure to have a heat guard in place so that the painting doesn’t get damaged when you light a fire. A mantle should be able to guard the painting against heat damage.
- For gallery walls that aren’t symmetrical, your main piece doesn’t have to be hung in the center. You should place it somewhere near the center area of the gallery, but not directly in the middle of the area where you’re hanging all of the art. It should be about eye-level.
- 2 Place the painting equal distance between windows. If there are windows on the wall where you want the piece, plan to put your painting or gallery between the windows leaving the same amount of space on either side of the painting. Your paintings shouldn’t be placed where window…
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