Art Gallery Walls >> How To

Not sure about you, but I'm in love with all the gallery wall ideas I've come across on Pinterest. Here are a few of my favorites...

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Last year I shared a little tutorial on HowDoesShe? with tips on how to arrange a gallery wall, especially with things other than frames. 

A. Keeping your arrangement centralized over a table or couch creates a vignette or a relationship with the items around it and ties everything together.

B. Keeping the items between 2” – 4” apart allows the entire design to look cohesive and keeps items from looking like they are floating away.

C. Don’t be afraid to mix frame types, even if they’re different metals or colors. As long as they are repeated a couple of times in the arrangement, it will look great!

D. Make sure there are multiple shapes in the arrangement. This will look better as well as add more visual interest. {Example: the frames are rectangular, but the floral arrangement has a triangular base and the flowers are round.  There are also oval and round elements on the table below.}

E. A tip to doing abstract arrangements: use the step-down method: have one side higher than the other and step each element down. Notice how the left side is higher and then it steps down to the floral and then down again…it’s the design principle called repetition. {This is a great look over a staircase as it repeats the shape of the stairs.}

For more tips, visit the original post at HowDoesShe.com

Hope these tips helped! Let me know if you have any other decorating questions! I’d love to help!