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| Photo by Martine de Luna |
Sounds simple enough, right? But there is an art to displaying our pictures so that they gain their rightful attention without detracting from the attractiveness of the room we put them in.
1. Choose your pictures carefully. We cannot display everything we print out. We need to choose pictures with poignant or striking images. We want pictures that draw people in, tell a story, and give an insight into the life and thoughts of the people who live in our home.
We don’t want studio pictures of people with so much make-up and hairspray, we could hardly recognize the person at all. Posed group pictures in front of some landmark are often boring. Pictures with celebrities are simply not classy, period.
Candid pictures, on the other hand, are often interesting. Images of people at work or at play are good. Close-ups of people displaying real emotion are nice.
Incidentally, for framing, choose pictures that capture as much of the subject as possible. This is what makes close-ups exceptionally good framing candidates. On the other hand, pictures with huge backgrounds and tiny subjects are generally not good for framing.
2. Get frames that blend with your furniture. Your frames should blend with your home’s design. If you’ve got vintage furniture, stainless steel frames will simply look out of place. Of course, if your home motif is brown, that does not mean you cannot have red frames – but you probably will have a hard time with blue frames.
It is safest to stick to frames in one color only. Not to say that different frames with different colors can’t work – but it will certainly take a whole lot more effort to make them look good together.
3. Choose different frame sizes. It’s safe and classic to have three identical frames all lined up on a wall. But for picture ledges and picture walls with more than three images, it’s more interesting if you have a combination of big frames and small frames, placed high and low, but arranged in perfect balance.
Some people like to take their different sized frames and arrange them like a puzzle on the wall so that their outer borders form a clean rectangle. A row of four or more identically sized frames is simply too boring.
We don’t want studio pictures of people with so much make-up and hairspray, we could hardly recognize the person at all. Posed group pictures in front of some landmark are often boring. Pictures with celebrities are simply not classy, period.
Candid pictures, on the other hand, are often interesting. Images of people at work or at play are good. Close-ups of people displaying real emotion are nice.
Incidentally, for framing, choose pictures that capture as much of the subject as possible. This is what makes close-ups exceptionally good framing candidates. On the other hand, pictures with huge backgrounds and tiny subjects are generally not good for framing.
2. Get frames that blend with your furniture. Your frames should blend with your home’s design. If you’ve got vintage furniture, stainless steel frames will simply look out of place. Of course, if your home motif is brown, that does not mean you cannot have red frames – but you probably will have a hard time with blue frames.
It is safest to stick to frames in one color only. Not to say that different frames with different colors can’t work – but it will certainly take a whole lot more effort to make them look good together.
3. Choose different frame sizes. It’s safe and classic to have three identical frames all lined up on a wall. But for picture ledges and picture walls with more than three images, it’s more interesting if you have a combination of big frames and small frames, placed high and low, but arranged in perfect balance.
Some people like to take their different sized frames and arrange them like a puzzle on the wall so that their outer borders form a clean rectangle. A row of four or more identically sized frames is simply too boring.
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