Wall Art Guide

A hallway is the only wall in the house nobody stands still in front of. The art is read sideways, at walking pace, from less than a metre away —...

A living room wall is usually three to four metres long, and that changes the arithmetic. Most gallery walls that fail in a living room fail the same way: the...

A summer house is not a small home, it is a building that spends half the year unheated, and paper notices. From October to April the inside of a closed...

Renting, plasterboard, concrete, or simply not wanting to make holes — there are good reasons to hang art without a hammer. Most of the alternatives work. The one thing that...

The gap between frames is the one measurement people guess at, and it is the one that decides whether an arrangement reads as a single composition or as several separate...

A gallery wall above a bed follows different rules from one above a sofa, and the difference is symmetry. A sofa is a soft, wide shape that tolerates an asymmetric...

The wall behind a sofa is the most attempted gallery wall in the home and the most often botched. The size question has a clean answer — two thirds of...

A hallway is the only space in a home that nobody stands still in. You see the walls in passing, from a metre away, at walking speed — and that...

Two things make a child's room different from every other room in the house. The person who uses it is shorter than you, and the room gets rearranged every few...

Before anything about size or subject, the honest part: a bathroom is the worst environment in the house for a paper print. Steam is the problem, and it is worth...

Kitchens have the least free wall of any room in the house. Cabinets take the upper half, appliances and worktop take the lower, and what remains is usually a narrow...

A bedroom asks something of art that no other room does: it has to work when you are lying down. That single fact changes the size, the height and often...