Create your own art gallery

If you are an art lover and you have a small collection of paintings, prints and photographs, or you simply have many memorable memories to frame, you can decorate a wall with all of them as an art gallery; that will not only serve to give prominence to a space in front of others, it will also help to visually expand the size of the room. East accumulation system that seems random is actually quite difficult to apply and the result depends on many factors, such as the appropriate distribution depending on the area chosen to expose, the combination of the color ranges or the balanced ordering of the sizes.

The concept is not new at all and already stood out among seventeenth-century art collectors, who placed their pieces in chambers reserved for their private enjoyment and commissioned the leading painters of the time representation of your cabinets in large paintings to be able to show off to visitors and leave a testimony of its richness and good aesthetic taste. At the historiographical level, these paintings have been really useful for museums and auction houses to inventory numerous works of art whose provenance was not known from the XNUMXth century on. Let's see how to take advantage of the idea in the XNUMXst century:

In this Brooklyn apartment they choose to turn their works of art into the leitmotif of the salon: The smooth off-white wall and the wood and gray furniture are subordinated by the impact of the paintings and engravings that decorate walls. The frames emerge from the floor to the middle of the windows, thus achieving that the high height of the loft and its industrial appearance are offset by the distribution of the paintings in a landscape format and the striking selection of colors.

If we prefer to place the pictures in a place more intimate and that it does not steal prominence in the main areas, an alternative is to resort to the passage areas such as the staircase or the hall, where we probably also have more freedom when changing the distribution or adding new frames. In this case, it is convenient to emphasize the height using the entire surface of the wall since they are usually narrow spaces with little light.

Sometimes it is not possible to throw down a wall to communicate environments because we find a girder that is not feasible to eliminate; a solution to give it some functionality is to place our particular art gallery along its walls. A tone dark as a base it will give relevance to the paintings and a lot of personality to an element that we would initially like to ignore. The fireplace handle, which in most cases has a screen effect by necessity, is also a good place to hang a special collection or a series of images with great meaning and sentimental value.

With the idea of ​​promoting their cultural tastes and develop your creativity, children's bedrooms easily support a flexible mini gallery, where you can mix your own drawings with original paintings, prints and posters; Or choose a series of suitable themes with which to decorate the wall that invites you to relax thanks to the superposition of complementary colors and the harmony in the arrangement of the frames.

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Sources - Step by step, The magazine antiques, review-journal, buildipedia, green tea design, The Charlotte Mums, e-oprawa blog, My scandinavian home