An observant reader noticed our art gallery wall in our hallway in this Simple Solution post and asked for more info.
We don’t have tons of personal photos throughout our house, but our hall has photos of every immediate family member.
The hall frames were black before I decided to attack them with white spray paint this summer to lighten the group.
Before I saw a tip from Martha Stewart, our wall looked balanced, but cluttered. I don’t seem to have a picture of the entire layout before I implemented Martha’s tip, but this is how this wall looked for quite a while.
The layout isn’t drastically different, but pay attention to the bottom row of frames. What was Martha’s tip? Keep everything above and below a line of painters tape.
The tops of the frames in the bottom row are {roughly} in a line, while to bottoms of the middle row are in a line, too. To keep the arrangement looking uniform and uncluttered, I spaced the frames as evenly as possible while keeping columns of frames.
To further prevent an arrangemt from looking messy, keep the frames and mats the same throughout. We accentuated the center photo by painting the frame a contrasting color.
Obviously, there are endless ways to arrange a gallery wall, but this works for us. Do you prefer a balanced, symmetrical or completely asymmetrical layout? What’s your favorite picture hanging trick? Do you cut paper templates marked with hooks for easy, perfect hanging? Anyone use velcro or another adhesive? I’ve been known to keep pesky frames level with sticky tack behind the corners.
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