Picture wall in the livingroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
The subject of picture walls keep turning up at various sites and blogs and there are many opinions about how to create a picture wall.
I think you don’t need all that many rules for how to create a picture wall. I think you can place them pretty freely. Just find some sort of balance on the whole.
Should all pictures have the same frames? Should they all have the same background (passe-partout)? Should they all be of the same colors? Should they all be of the same style? Can you mix older images with new and aquarelles with photos? Should they all be of the same size? I think you can mix just anything and combine just as you like.
The most important thing is that you actually LIKE what you put on your walls and like watching the pictures yourself. Don’t just put up pictures/images because they are in fashion presently (I see a lot of those in various blogs). (A certain photo of a girl from behind with wings comes to mind…). Personally I am also pretty allergic to posters with text. I have one exception in the livingroom (see above) but that tells a whole story.
Should pictures be placed in strict lines in one direction or all? Or could you line them up any way you want? In my opinion you can line them up any way you want though it is good with some symmetry, not too much, and some straight lines, but not too many.
What I show here are some examples of how it can be arranged. All from my home.
Picture strip in the bedroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
Should you use one or several picture strips and regularly exchange the pictures? Why not. Above are two picture strips that become one. Couldn’t find one long enough for the length I wanted.
I also put some smaller items on the picture strip. Important here that they are of a color that is in contrast to the color of the wall. These two pictures actually ought to have white frames instead of black. Will get around to that some time in the future…
Pictures in the bedroom. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015
Above an old poster-picture from Ikea that I love and have had in the bedroom for years (the largest picture). I like looking at it when in the bed. To its right an old aquarelle that my father made in 1940. Below a tourist souvenir from Greece. (I need to find another place for the black Tube-lamp).
Pictures in the hallway. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
This is the wall between the walk-in-closet and the bathroom, in my second hallway. A square photo frame for several photos of my family combined with old fashioned round frames with really old family photos. The pictures make one square and one single round area of the round frames.
Family photos. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
A small piece of wall outside the walk-in-closet that I also used for old family photos. This is my fathers photos + one drawn self-portrait of my father at the top. Here I line the picture by their middles as they are of different sizes.
Pictures above the TV in the livingroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
Above the TV (which stands on the bench and is not fastened to the wall) I’ve combined an old oil-painting from 1929 by my father with five aquarelles by myself and an Ikea wall-clock and a beduin-whip-knife (knife is inside the upper part of the whip). I see no problem to combine these items. Here there is a straight line of the pictures at the top.
Picture in the first hallway. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
In the first hallway, just when you come into the flat, I have a huge Apple-poster of Picasso from the Think Different campaign. I was hesitant at first about having such a big picture in such a small hallway, but it works really well as it is grey-scale with a black, thin frame on a dark grey wall. Beside it to the left are two tall mirrors with black frames. The picture strip below it I use to put keys, mobile, mobile-cover, and such small items you need to get rid of when you come in.
And sometimes just one picture is enough. In this case an old Russian May 1st poster, laminated and put inside a black frame. I’ve always loved this picture.
Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
