How to guides

Historias e inspiración etiquetadas con "How To Guides"


You're Overthinking Your Colourful Gallery Wall

You're Overthinking Your Colourful Gallery Wall

Jasmine Okoro

Most colourful gallery walls fail for the same reason: every print is shouting. You don't need ten bold pieces fighting each other, you need one or two that carry the...

Leer más
Creating a Gallery Wall with Matisse Prints: Sizes, Layouts, and Colour Pairings

Creating a Gallery Wall with Matisse Prints: Si...

Jasmine Okoro

Matisse's cut-outs are the rare bit of art history that works as hard in a modern flat as it does in a museum. The shapes are bold, the palettes are...

Leer más
Why Do Most London Gallery Walls Look Like Tourist Shops?

Why Do Most London Gallery Walls Look Like Tour...

Jasmine Okoro

A red phone box. A Beefeater. Big Ben in cartoon watercolour. You've seen this wall a hundred times, and it never looks like someone actually lives there. The good news...

Leer más
Living Room Urban Art Ideas: Building a Gallery Wall That Feels Curated

Living Room Urban Art Ideas: Building a Gallery...

Jasmine Okoro

A blank living room wall is an opportunity, but it's also where most gallery walls go wrong. Urban art gives you something that floral prints and abstract pastels can't: a...

Leer más
Why Do Most Travel Gallery Walls Look So Cluttered?

Why Do Most Travel Gallery Walls Look So Clutte...

Clara Bell

Most travel gallery walls fail for the same reason: they try to show everything. Every trip, every favourite shot, every poster picked up at a museum gift shop, all crammed...

Leer más
Why Chic Gallery Walls Work Better With Fewer Frames

Why Chic Gallery Walls Work Better With Fewer F...

Jasmine Okoro

Most gallery walls fail for the same reason: too many frames, in too many finishes, hung too close to the sofa. The chic ones look effortless because they follow a...

Leer más
The Only Gallery Wall Formula That Makes Quote Prints Look Curated

The Only Gallery Wall Formula That Makes Quote ...

Jasmine Okoro

Quote prints have a reputation problem. Hang too many together and your wall starts to read like a self-help bookshop window, which is exactly what happens to most people who...

Leer más
The Cityscape Gallery Wall Edit: Our Favourite Layouts for Urban Art

The Cityscape Gallery Wall Edit: Our Favourite ...

Clara Bell

Cityscape prints are some of the trickiest art to build a gallery wall around. They carry energy, bold colour, and architectural detail that can dominate a room if you let...

Leer más
7 Living Room Wall Art Layouts with Exact Spacing Measurements

7 Living Room Wall Art Layouts with Exact Spaci...

Miles Tanaka

You've chosen the art. Now comes the part nobody explains properly: where exactly does it go, how high, and how far apart. This is the implementation guide, with real numbers...

Leer más
7 Rules for Hanging Wall Art Prints That Look Professional

7 Rules for Hanging Wall Art Prints That Look P...

Jasmine Okoro

Most art prints get hung too high, too small, and too far from anything else in the room. The good news: getting it right is more about a handful of...

Leer más
From Blank Wall to Curated Sports Gallery: Your Step-by-Step Plan

From Blank Wall to Curated Sports Gallery: Your...

Miles Tanaka

A sports gallery wall lives or dies on one thing: whether it looks deliberate. Most people hang their prints in a way that reads as "fan cave by accumulation" rather...

Leer más
The Complete Guide to Displaying Frog Prints in Gallery Walls

The Complete Guide to Displaying Frog Prints in...

Miles Tanaka

Frog prints sit in a strange corner of art history. They can look like a serious natural history collection, or they can tip your living room straight into a children's...

Leer más
The Kitchen Gallery Wall Edit: Curated Food Prints That Work

The Kitchen Gallery Wall Edit: Curated Food Pri...

Jasmine Okoro

Most kitchen gallery walls fail for the same reason: people pick prints they like individually, hang them roughly, and hope for the best. This guide gives you the formulas, the...

Leer más
You're Overthinking Your St. Louis Gallery Wall

You're Overthinking Your St. Louis Gallery Wall

Miles Tanaka

Most St. Louis gallery walls fail for the same reason: too many ideas competing for attention. You bought a beautiful Gateway Arch print, found a Soulard map you love, threw...

Leer más
Go Big: How to Use Large Vintage Landscape Prints to Transform a Room

Go Big: How to Use Large Vintage Landscape Prin...

Jasmine Okoro

A large vintage landscape print does something a cluster of smaller frames never quite manages. It anchors a room, makes it feel collected rather than decorated, and gives the eye...

Leer más
Green Wall Art Gallery Ideas That Look Curated, Not Chaotic

Green Wall Art Gallery Ideas That Look Curated,...

Miles Tanaka

A gallery wall in one colour family is harder than it looks. Without contrasting colours doing the heavy lifting, you have to build interest through shade, subject and scale. This...

Leer más
What Interior Designers Know About Displaying Matisse Prints in Living Rooms

What Interior Designers Know About Displaying M...

Jasmine Okoro

Matisse prints are deceptively tricky to hang. The cut-outs are bold, the colours are loud, and standard "eye level" advice falls apart the moment you put a 90cm sofa underneath...

Leer más
7 Steps to a Boho Gallery Wall That Looks Curated, Not Chaotic

7 Steps to a Boho Gallery Wall That Looks Curat...

Miles Tanaka

Boho gallery walls fail for one reason: people treat them as a free-for-all. Loose, layered and lived-in is the look, but the walls that actually achieve it are built on...

Leer más
7 Vintage Art Print Ideas That Feel Fresh, Not Fussy

7 Vintage Art Print Ideas That Feel Fresh, Not ...

Miles Tanaka

Why vintage prints are having a moment (and why some still look terrible) Vintage art is everywhere right now: botanicals, travel posters, faded maps, mid-century abstracts, dusky still lifes pulled...

Leer más
Why Matching Frames Make Botanical Gallery Walls Look Cohesive

Why Matching Frames Make Botanical Gallery Wall...

Jasmine Okoro

Botanical gallery walls have a higher failure rate than almost any other style. Too many leaf varieties, mismatched frames, and guesswork spacing turn what should feel like a calm indoor...

Leer más