When we started decorating our home, I knew I wanted our walls to be canvases that would complement the overall aesthetics of the rooms. We went for warm, rich colours and then started adding clusters of artwork and pretty plates to add even more character to the space.
I am a big fan of clusters of art of any size, so we dotted a lot around the house. We have a couple of small clusters in our living room, the same goes for our kitchen, our bedroom and… our downstairs powder room, which is the walls filled with art I am most proud of! The room itself is quite bold, with a pretty coral motif wallpaper from floor to ceiling, covered in pictures, old and new.
As it’s our guest bathroom, all our visitors would get to see it, and I wanted it to be a window into our style and what we’re passionate about. So we mixed and matched artwork and photos from travels, vintage finds and many Artfullywalls pieces, ranging from oil painting-style prints, drawings, botanical sketches and floral watercolours.
Creating so many areas of art around the house, I got to test a couple of techniques to curate and hang the artwork, and these are my two favourite methods:
- Pre-design your gallery wall on Canva. This is something you could do in the planning phase, before you buy the artwork. Open a new Canva file (or any other design tool you like) and adjust its canvas ratio so that it matches the area you need to decorate. Then, find your Artfullywalls pieces from their website, select the frame you like, and simply copy the artwork and paste it into your design file. Now, move your artwork pieces around until you find the perfect arrangement. Once you’re happy with the result, you’re ready to hang them.
- Lay your artwork on the floor. And mix and match your pieces until you find the perfect combination. Play with spacing and heights. I would recommend a minimum of 3-5cm gap between each piece so that they have enough space to shine independently from the entire composition. Now, take some paper scotch tape and use it to mark where every artwork is going to sit on your wall. Once you’re happy with your arrangement, put the nails in the wall and use my fork trick for a hassle-free hanging – it’s quite the time saver, especially when you have a few pieces to hang.
If you follow me on Instagram, you know I love a little seasonal artwork refresh – I either buy a couple of new prints or I just move the ones I own from one room to another. This time around, I got some new prints from Artfullywalls, and you can see them below, along with a few more I have in my wishlist:
For our guest bathroom
For our bedroom
For our living room
xx,
