5 Creative Ways to Display Artwork in Your Home

Hello World!  Welcome Friends!  You’ve collected art you’d love to display—the problem is, you have no idea how you want to show it off. It may be art you’ve collected over time, your work, or something you’ve acquired out of a need to fill a blank space in your home.

Either way, artwork deserves to be displayed for people to see. If you don’t know how, here’s a list of five ideas to display artwork around your home in imaginative ways.

1. Gallery Wall With Themed Frames

It is simply a wall filled with paintings, prints, photographs, and other pieces of visual art. The classic gallery wall becomes a creative idea when you get creative with it. It’s a great way to utilize an otherwise empty wall and can be set up anywhere in your home.

It’s not about randomly hanging pictures on a wall, although there’s nothing wrong with doing so. But the purpose of a gallery wall is to bring something to the room that wasn’t there before.

Think about the art you’re going to hang and how you can make it complement the rest of the room. Maybe you’ll theme everything based on nature, a season, family, portraits, or abstract art. Try several layouts on the floor before committing your favorite to the wall. Matching or customized frames from places like The Picture Factory or similar shops can help bring everything together. You may decide they should match the furniture or have them in a color that contrasts with the wall so each artwork pops out.

2. Make a ‘Floating’ Art Display

If you like DIY projects, this may be particularly interesting for you. More so if you’ve got some space—not a wall—that’s in desperate need of something more engaging to the eye.

Now, this is where you can get your creative juices flowing. There isn’t a clear definition for ‘floating art display.’ It’s up to you to make of it what you will. It is really to get you thinking about where else in your home would be the best spot to display art. And to make you imagine what you would do there, maybe something non-permanent, letting you rotate and swap between different artworks as it suits you.

You could make a wooden skeletal tower-like, shelved structure to house several paintings. Another idea is to use cables as a method of suspending art between two pillars. You might already have ideas filling your head, but there’s also the option to look online for more inspiration.

3. Use Bare Spots Around the Home

It is a simple way to decorate your home with scattered artwork. Take a look around. You’ll likely be surprised by how many spots you haven’t noticed before—areas that could comfortably hold some vibrant wall art like a picture or painting without looking cluttered.

Look above your television, doorways, cabinets, mirrors, windows, and anything else flush-fitted with your walls. Its goal is to put things in places where they’ll be pleasantly welcomed whenever you or someone else walks into your house. But, you must be cautious not to fill up too much free space—it contributes to creating a balanced interior décor.

4. Fill Your Stairs

If you have stairs, the wall that runs along your staircase is the perfect spot to display your prized artwork pieces. Think about it; anything that significantly protrudes from the wall would get in the way of anyone using the staircase. A collection of artworks, pictures, and prints, each only as thick as the frame that holds it, won’t be in the way.

But once again, get creative with your layout. Try using pieces of different shapes and sizes. For example, surround big frames with smaller ones. Different-sized artworks laid intricately to build a pattern, an artwork of their own. There are many existing examples to fuel your inspiration.

5. Art Shelves

Consider installing dedicated shelves on which you’ll rest framed artwork instead of hooks to hang it. Art shelves make it easy to move things around, which is great if you enjoy rearranging or rotating what’s on display. Additionally, they can hold more than just flat, framed pieces, giving you more versatility. Think of small pot plants, figurines, ornaments, and souvenirs.

Elevate the aesthetic of your home art shelves by incorporating frames to display your creative art pieces, and Frame Destination stands out as an ideal source for these essential accessories. With a diverse range of frames available and the option for customization to align with your specific theme or decor, Frame Destination ensures that your art shelves not only showcase your prized artwork but also enhance the overall visual appeal of your space.

Shelves are a doable DIY project for almost anyone; ensure you use the right tools. You can install wall shelves in a single afternoon’s work. Have fun with the layout. You can go with a tried and trusted, neat, uniform layout. But you could also zigzag, stagger, or do an original one with the shelves.

Conclusion

There’s an endless number of approaches one could take when displaying artwork in the home. That said, the five methods listed above should cover only about any available space you have.

These suggestions can get you started, but you can and should do what feels right to you. It’s about how you structure your gallery wall, what you do to detail your shelves (are they painted, themed, or hung with decorations?), and how you work all these things into your home.

Have fun with it. Get creative. Try different things in different areas of the house. It will help you find the display you love, be it a consistent rotation of artwork or a static, fixed display.

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