Decorating your home, office, or bedroom means giving it a personality, a projection of who you are yourself. The atmosphere created by the room will contribute to your well-being, so it's important to spend time on it so that in the end, feeling comfortable there and you welcome your guests in a place that reflects your personality.
Decorative paintings can easily help you reach this objective, by dressing up an area that only they can furnish: the middle height of your walls. Thus, a white and lifeless wall, decorated with a simple decorative painting, immediately becomes a space that expresses itself, provokes emotion, can be admired, and sometimes sparks conversation.
The 3 rules to follow to properly place your painting :
- The size of the painting
- The colors
- The arrangement
- The size of the decorative painting
So before any purchase, you need to determine the future location of your artwork, which will allow you to decide the size of painting to choose. You must center it well, so as not to create a strange imbalance in the room of your house.
Avoid placing a small painting on an oversized wall or vice versa.
If you choose a large painting and place it on an open wall, it will become the main attraction of the room, drawing all eyes.
For height, the painting should be placed at eye-level.
It’s all a matter of balance and finesse.
The colors
You must ensure your painting matches your furniture, your existing decoration, or other decorative paintings.
The colors should be in harmony with the rest of the decor, so that everything matches and follows a certain logic.
For a very clean and understated interior, play with contrasts using bright, vibrant colors; for example, a painting in shades of red stands out particularly well on a gray wall.
If, on the other hand, your living room or living area is already very colorful, a monochrome painting can be welcome.
For rooms like bedrooms, softer shades are more suitable.
- The arrangement of the painting
Whatever type of arrangement you choose, the whole must always be centered in relation to what surrounds it.
The different types of arrangements:
- 1 wall / 1 painting: Decorate your wall with a single large decorative painting, around which the décor will be organized. For a large space, a large painting is suitable, which will give character to the room; placed strategically, it will have a very strong visual impact and become the room’s main attraction.
- A wall of paintings: Very common in Anglo-Saxon countries, it's less popular here. This layout involves covering an entire wall with a multitude of paintings of all sizes and styles. For a smaller space, a small painting is perfectly suitable; placed centrally in the room, it will have just as much impact.
- Triptych, quadriptych, or other arrangement of geometric paintings, Will bring poetic touches to your wall and add dynamics to the room. For a very orderly interior, a bit of asymmetry can bring some whimsy and freshness.
- The “rectilinear” painting This consists of placing paintings along a straight horizontal or vertical line. This is ideal for covering a very long wall, a hallway...
- Paintings of the same style in different rooms A reminder in each room on the same theme, to tell a story through these paintings, or to evoke an emotion…
It's up to you to choose and arrange your paintings according to your tastes and beliefs—and your décor!
