It might be a stretch of wall under a staircase, or a corner that wraps around one room to lead you to another. So many of us have character-filled homes with odd pockets in them. You can place the art in a straight line or hang them randomly, too, so there’s a sense of freedom and choice at play here. It runs over a side table I have in my entryway and is successful in leading you down to other rooms in the house. I have one like this in my own home and adore it. A horizontal gallery wall like the one above is a great way to do this – especially in a hallway. I’m a firm believe that when you’re in a space, you need to go on a visual journey and lead the eye around the room. I love to take the eye on a horizontal journey in any room. This one will also require some planning, though, because you need your the edge of every frame to perfectly line up with the others that sit on the edge of the installation. It gives you a bit of structure but ensures there are very clear boundaries, too, so that it’s obvious where the art wall ends. Notice that the external border of this gallery wall features clean lines (one giant rectangle) but inside that shape the frames are randomly placed. This gallery wall idea gives you the best of both worlds in that it gives you the ease of a random formation, but serves up a sense or order, too. Also ensure the frames are not put too closely together or the wall starts to feel suffocated. What I will say here is that you do need to ensure your artworks are in different colours and that the gallery also features portrait and landscape orientations. You also don’t have to be too concerned with where you place your hooks, either the more haphazard the placement of each artwork, the better. The best part is that there’s no start of end point, and you can simply add more frames as you please. The image above from Anthropology nails this vibe.
This is my favourite type of gallery wall because it is anything goes and feels completely relaxed in terms of its application. The gallery wall above is from my recent Melbourne CBD project and I loved the wall it turned out.
You’ll need to mark out where you’ll place the hooks and ensure they are all evenly spaced out. In terms of hanging them, this will take some precision. But of course, the golden rule is that you need to ensure each frame is perfectly mirrored by another. There are endless options in terms of the number of frames you place on the wall and what size they are. Gorg right?Īny room that features a lot of symmetry is going to create a sense of formality, so if you prefer a space that feels more formal, structured and balanced, a symmetrical gallery wall is a great idea. PS: The hero image in this post is via Desenio. There are endless options with it comes to gallery wall ideas, but these ones are my fave. By putting a gallery wall here, it allows you to pause, take a moment, appreciate some art or remember a special family memory.Īnd besides, who wants a gallery wall of relatives eyeballs staring down at you from your bedroom wall as you sleep? This is why I prefer to have larger art pieces in these zones and keep the gallery walls for the hallway and entryways. Entryways and hallways are such forgotten zones areas we pass through without much thought of what’s going on in them style-wise. When it comes to gallery wall ideas, I prefer to place them in entryways as opposed to living spaces. My partner would always say, “just put it all up”, and to his credit, it worked a gallery wall in my entryway was the result and I love to look at it when I’m going in or out. I used to fuss and worry about my art at home a lot. It’s such an easy way to put all of your art, photos and mementos together without having to worry too much about design rules or guidelines. There’s no other way to say it: I absolutely love to rock a gallery wall.
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