Arranging pictures

[Lefty]

I'm crap at it. So's the wife.

Small walls, obviously, are easy enough.

We've got a hallway that's about 30m longand 1.3m wide (a neccesity due to the shape of our steading). We have a load of pictures, of varying styles. Photos, canvasses (mostly landscapes), some abstract cat paintings in oil, some portraits of the kids and stuff like that.

In my ocd style, I've got them all along the hall at the same height, evenly spaced and level to the centres. It looks st.

Any tips?

[soad]

Lefty said:

In my ocd style, I've got them all along the hall at the same height, evenly spaced and level to the centres. It looks st.

Pics please!

[cal72]

Same sized frames will balance out the different sized pictures or you could apply some bead frameing around the pics at up/down -_-_-_ <like this the effect would be pleasant.

[j44esd]

Not a tip as such, but an observation, my methodology for putting up pics is similar - a friend of mine has a downstairs toilet and wall to ceiling is all different styled and sized framed music related paraphenalia, it looks fantastic, but I know I could never replicate the 'thrown together' but clearly incredibly well planned approach!

(I would get you a picture, but I'm pretty sure she may think me odd if I request a photo of her toilet to post on the internet...)

[Lefty]

soad said:

Lefty said:

In my ocd style, I've got them all along the hall at the same height, evenly spaced and level to the centres. It looks st.

Pics please!

So you can take the piss?!



It's actually diffiult to get a meaningful photo because of the awkward shape of the hall...

[stimps]

Sounds like you might have too many pictures, maybe you should consider different types of decorations.

Or

What about clustering certain photos rather than having them in a straight organisded line? A cluster of family photos may work well.

[Lefty]

j44esd said:

Not a tip as such, but an observation, my methodology for putting up pics is similar - a friend of mine has a downstairs toilet and wall to ceiling is all different styled and sized framed music related paraphenalia, it looks fantastic, but I know I could never replicate the 'thrown together' but clearly incredibly well planned approach!

(I would get you a picture, but I'm pretty sure she may think me odd if I request a photo of her toilet to post on the internet...)

I know exactly what you mean. I've seen similar arrangements before but I just know it would look really fking stupid if I tried it!

[tubbystu]

Lefty said:

I've got them all along the hall at the same height, evenly spaced and level to the centres.

Any tips?

Have you tried putting the middle of the landscape images at roughly eyeline and then centreing the portrait images at 2/3rds of height rather than dead centre ?

Keeps the eye line through the heart of the image and helps keep the pictures in the upper portion of the wall and helps break up the uniformity, making it look more appealing to the eye perhaps.

Lay the pictures out up leaning up against the wall at skirting board level to ensure the order also is kind to the eye.

If you have pairs or several small landscape pictures that relate to each other these can be positioned above each in between or next to a large portrait pictures to break the pattern up too.

HTH

[Lefty]

can't say moving it to home cinema and hifi makes much sense?

[tubbystu]

Lefty said:

can't say moving it to home cinema and hifi makes much sense?

Well done mods

[Lefty]

tubbystu said:

Lefty said:

I've got them all along the hall at the same height, evenly spaced and level to the centres.

Any tips?

Have you tried putting the middle of the landscape images at roughly eyeline and then centreing the portrait images at 2/3rds of height rather than dead centre ?

Keeps the eye line through the heart of the image and helps keep the pictures in the upper portion of the wall and helps break up the uniformity, making it look more appealing to the eye perhaps.

Lay the pictures out up leaning up against the wall at skirting board level to ensure the order also is kind to the eye.

If you have pairs or several small landscape pictures that relate to each other these can be positioned above each in between or next to a large portrait pictures to break the pattern up too.

HTH

That's really helpful, ta

[Fume troll]

How about creating a few groups based on subjects, or colours? It would break it up a bit and might make the hall not seem so long.

For long runs I'd align the tops of the frames.

http://www.scrapnframes.com/SITE_EN/FRAMING/LayOut...

Cheers,

FT.