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Arranging Artwork

The positioning of artwork in a room can provide balance and interest if placed correctly. A mismatch of paintings haphazardly placed can be distressing to the eye and creates a sense of disorder and disjoints the flow through a room. Therefore careful consideration needs to be used when undertaking this task.

Here are a few guidelines that can be followed to help you:

• Work out what you want to put where around the room and lay them out on the floor.
• Position all the artwork in the room before you start to hang it.
• Position the painting on the wall so that the centre of the painting is at your eye line. (approx 1420-1750mm).This will also depend on the scale of the room, the further back you are from the wall the easier it is to view without looking up or down.
• If posisitoning a group of paintings as a feature together then the middle painting/s which will be the focus should be at eye height with the others as the surrounding decoration (even though they may be viewed closely individually we are aranging the artwork as a type of wall decoration).
• If you have multiple pictures of varying sizes and you wish to group them in a space, centre them around a cross formation with the larger pictures to the bottom and the smaller above, this creates a good balance for the eye as it appears that the larger pictures form the base for the smaller pictures.