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The living room is where one spends most of the
time relaxing, reading, listening to music and entertaining friends.
Display some good artwork for everyone to admire and
give these pieces that special spot in the limelight. Use
directional lighting to highlight your best decorating pieces
as if they were being displayed in an art gallery.
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| Arrange Pictures Decoratively
and create a focal point.
Fill out a tall, skinny space between two windows
by stacking prints one on top of the other for vertical impact. Narrow frames make the arrangement slim and trim while
elongated mats fill in the space rather than fight it.
The prints on the wall reach
down to the desk to create a
single, unified focal point.
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Turn a wall into a showcase
Pick a theme for your arrangement and fill a blank wall
with multiple items with a similar theme.
If only small pieces of art or pictures are available and a large wall is in need of art,
arrange the small pieces decoratively on the wall to fill the space in a good aesthetic manner.
The items must have some sort of relation to each other in order for this idea to work.
For example, a collection of old black and white pictures, or a collection of prints,
or a collection of small mirrors, etc. A good rule of thumb is to have a color and theme
coordination throughout all the accessories.
Artwork that is mixed into an arrangement also needs to give a consistent look.
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 Do you need to lengthen a room?
Hang prints with strong horizontal lines to create the illusion of increased length in your room. For best results use the landscape style format and prints with light expansive colors (several prints in a row compound the effect.) Panoramic vistas work very well for this situation.
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Do you need to bring a large room down to size?
To scale down a huge room, hang a series of small prints together on a large blank wall. Look for small print series in this collection and hang them low on the wall to create an optical illusion of diminished space.
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Is your living room too small?
Paint one wall a darker, richer color. Hang an exciting print on that wall, and a framed mirror on the opposite wall. The reflected art will make the room appear wider.
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