If you have a big expanse of wall in your home, putting up one or two paintings may not always be the best designing idea. It’s perfectly fine to succumb to horror vacui. And you can do this by showing off one of your collections.
If you have lots of photographs, the idea of filling a whole wall with photos can look a bit too much. This is especially true if the rest of the room has a little bit of everything (and every color). There are tricks you can do in order to keep your home from looking a little too cluttered.
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One is to use black/white photos with either black or white frames. The end result will be very classy. Using frames of different colors might not work, especially if the wall is not white. If you’re feeling a bit adventurous, why not red?
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Frames are also fun stuff to collect and showing them off hanging from your wall is a charming idea. That is how Audrey Romano designed a part of her home.
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Or how about a reflection wall? That’s right, you can use mirrors too! This wonderful mirror wall by Cupcakes and Cashmere is one amazing example. Gold on red works beautifully.
Which of these wall treatments do you fancy?
the mirror idea is kind of creepy. I don’t want to see myself in every nick and cranny of my home hahah. but the frames are really cute!
Haha I also imagine that antique mirrors may host ghosts and other-worldly creatures. :D
Hey theo,
You’re right, I wouldn’t want to see myself everywhere.. though almost everywhere works fine enough for me ;)
the multi photo frame wall is an amazing. love it so much!
xx
marian.
Hey marian,
I agree.. it just is so awesome.. you could even pick and choose your images to tell different stories!!
Little too busy for me. Sometimes less is more.
My boyfriend would agree. :D
hehehe Meream,
I’m sure he would :P
I don’t know… maybe it will look nice when it’s done on only one sections…. the mirrors looks kinda cluttery to me
If done in moderation, these would look great :)
I really like the one with the military photos. I have alot of those unframed. I think I will get them professionally framed and set something up like that for my kids. thank you Meream! :)
I bet the end result will be awesome. Don’t forget to show us photos. :)
I like to paint a lot and recently I have decided to do connected abstract painting. So I take my usual interest and make one big painting. When the different canvases are put together it makes one big piece.
I like mirror but not so many mirrors on one wall. They have mirros with art on them. I am looking toward getting one. I saw it HGTV. It looked really cool.
You mean like painted mirrors? I think that will look cool, too :)
Hey fatima,
i think the idea of the connected abstract is brilliant. Make sure you get good lighting to go with that though – cos i’ve seen a couple of places with not the right kind of lighting for the paintings, which sort of lessens the effect!
and ooh i would love artsy-mirrors!
Yeah, very cool and something I aspire to do. I saw when Emily did that on C and C and it’s great–love the doggie too :)
The doggie is love. Haha
Yay for featured Cupcakes and Cashmere! When Emily first posted that picture I was literally spellbound by how beautifully the gold frames worked with the red walls – tres fabulous!! :)
I like the idea with many mirrors on the wall. My zodiac sign is Sagittarius and it’s said that my sign loves mirrors all over the place, if they could they would want to have mirrors even on the sealing :). I have to admit is kind of true in my case because I like the closets to be with mirror doors, makeup dresser also with mirrors. Last week when I entered a furniture shop I saw a whole bedroom designed with mirrors. It was love at first sight…I just need the money now :)
Aww tavia,
I’m a Sagittarian too! no wonder we get each other so well :D