The Frame

Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame


How to Hang Framed Art Prints Without Getting It Wrong

How to Hang Framed Art Prints Without Getting I...

Jasmine Okoro

Most badly hung art isn't a taste problem. It's a height problem, a spacing problem, or a hardware problem, and all three are fixable with a tape measure and ten...

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How to Create a Boho Gallery Wall: A Practical, No-Nonsense Guide

How to Create a Boho Gallery Wall: A Practical,...

Jasmine Okoro

Boho gallery walls fail for one reason: people interpret "eclectic" as "anything goes." It isn't. The walls you save on Pinterest look effortless because someone made deliberate decisions about frames,...

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How to Create an Eclectic Gallery Wall That Looks Intentional (Not Chaotic)

How to Create an Eclectic Gallery Wall That Loo...

Miles Tanaka

You love a botanical line drawing, a moody abstract, and a vintage portrait, and you want them all on the same wall. The fear is that it'll look like a...

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How to Build a Gallery Wall Around Mountain Art Prints

How to Build a Gallery Wall Around Mountain Art...

Clara Bell

Mountain prints are some of the most rewarding pieces to anchor a gallery wall with, and some of the easiest to get wrong. Their horizontal weight, dramatic tonal range, and...

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Kitchen Gallery Wall Ideas: How to Plan, Hang, and Actually Get It Right First Time

Kitchen Gallery Wall Ideas: How to Plan, Hang, ...

Clara Bell

Most kitchen gallery walls fail before a single nail goes in. The prints arrive, you eyeball the layout, drill optimistically, and end up with something that feels chaotic instead of...

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Building a Gallery Wall Around Matisse Street Art Prints

Building a Gallery Wall Around Matisse Street A...

Miles Tanaka

Matisse's street and town scenes are some of the most rewarding pieces to build a gallery wall around, and also some of the trickiest. The fauvist blues, terracotta rooftops and...

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How to Build a Capri Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Considered

How to Build a Capri Gallery Wall That Actually...

Miles Tanaka

Capri prints have a quiet superpower: their colour palette does most of the curating before you've even hung anything. Azure water, whitewashed walls, lemon yellows, terracotta tile. Get the layout...

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How to Build a Greek Island Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Intentional

How to Build a Greek Island Gallery Wall That A...

Jasmine Okoro

You've collected a handful of Greek island prints and now you're staring at a blank wall, wondering how to arrange them without it looking like a holiday scrapbook exploded. The...

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9 Sun Wall Art Ideas We Keep Coming Back To

9 Sun Wall Art Ideas We Keep Coming Back To

Clara Bell

Sun art is one of those motifs that keeps reinventing itself, from terracotta boho suns to clean black line drawings. The trick is matching the style of sun to the...

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Best Dog Wall Art for Every Room (Not Just the Hallway)

Best Dog Wall Art for Every Room (Not Just the ...

Miles Tanaka

Dog art has an image problem. For decades it's been treated as something you tolerate in a downstairs loo or tuck behind a coat rack, as if loving your dog...

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Small Bathroom Gallery Wall Ideas: How to Make a Big Impact in a Tiny Loo

Small Bathroom Gallery Wall Ideas: How to Make ...

Jasmine Okoro

Small bathrooms are the most overlooked walls in your home. They're also the easiest to get right, because the constraints make most of the decisions for you. This guide gives...

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Photography or Painting? How to Pick the Right Landscape Print Style for Your Home

Photography or Painting? How to Pick the Right ...

Clara Bell

Most advice on this question stops at "it's personal preference." That's a cop-out. The choice between a photographic landscape and a painted one is driven by architecture, colour temperature, and...

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The Best Klimt Prints for Living Rooms (and How to Hang Them)

The Best Klimt Prints for Living Rooms (and How...

Jasmine Okoro

Klimt is one of the few artists whose work can carry an entire room without feeling decorative or thin. The challenge is choosing which piece, at what size, and how...

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How to Create a Greeting Card Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Curated

How to Create a Greeting Card Gallery Wall That...

Miles Tanaka

Most greeting card displays look like a craft project. Pegs, string, washi tape, a slow drift toward visual chaos. This guide treats card illustrations as what they actually are: small-scale...

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How to Decorate with Butterfly Art (Without Your Home Looking Like a Gift Shop)

How to Decorate with Butterfly Art (Without You...

Clara Bell

Butterfly art has a reputation problem. Done badly it reads as a child's bedroom or a National Trust gift shop circa 2003. Done well it's one of the most quietly...

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How to Create a Golf Gallery Wall That Looks Intentional, Not Random

How to Create a Golf Gallery Wall That Looks In...

Miles Tanaka

Most golf gallery walls fail for the same reason: too many ideas, not enough planning. The good news is that getting this right is mostly maths and one counterintuitive rule....

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How to Create a Minimalist Gallery Wall That Actually Feels Intentional

How to Create a Minimalist Gallery Wall That Ac...

Jasmine Okoro

Gallery walls aren't dead, but cluttered ones are The Pinterest-era gallery wall, the one with seventeen mismatched frames squeezed into every spare centimetre above the sofa, is finished. What's replaced...

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How to Build a Sunset Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Cohesive

How to Build a Sunset Gallery Wall That Actuall...

Clara Bell

Sunset prints are some of the most rewarding art you can hang, and some of the easiest to get wrong in multiples. Warm tones dominate, saturation levels fight each other,...

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How to Display Poster Prints So They Actually Look Grown-Up

How to Display Poster Prints So They Actually L...

Jasmine Okoro

There is a moment in everyone's adult life when you look at the curling poster taped above your desk and realise it has to go. Not the image, that part...

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Botanical Prints vs Floral Prints: Which Style Actually Suits Your Home?

Botanical Prints vs Floral Prints: Which Style ...

Miles Tanaka

Most online stores use "botanical" and "floral" as if they mean the same thing. They don't. The difference shapes the mood of a room, the furniture it pairs with, and...

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