How To Arrange Pictures For Home Decoration

by Cherdkiat Taesookavat

Home decor is probably something that most of people love to do the most among home improving activities. This is because there is no rule or definite guidelines to follows, the house owners have to use their imagination and creativity to create decorative works without limitations. Unlike any other home improvement activities such home repairs as you have to follow guideline very strictly.

The following article will talk about home decor accessory, which probable the most important elements of home decor. Home decor accessory refers to stuff that you will use for decorates the house. They could be any kind of stuff that you are interested in, but mostly they could be picture, arts and craft, flowers and so on. So, set back and read throughout this article, which will give you some initial idea of how to work with this kind of stuff to make your room personalized.

Firstly, we will talk about pictures, pictures is the most popular accessory that people use as home decorative accessory. This is because pictures are not only creating beautiful appearance of the house but they also generate emotional influence to people living in a house. For example, picture of food and cuisine could encourage eating atmosphere in dining room, meanwhile colorful picture of sports will make live atmosphere in living room. Moreover, pictures could even change the physical room shape such as making room looks bigger or smaller etc.

In terms of picture placements in a room, there are plenty of ways that you can choose. Basically, you can place pictures anywhere you want depends on your preference, but there still some guidelines on different ways of picture placement, which could help you to decide on how to place pictures in a house.

If you have number of small picture and want to discover new ways of arrangements, you can try to hang them in cluster. If you hang an even number of smaller prints tightly together in a cluster, especially in the large room that has excessive space. You will find that the cluster of small picture will give a window effect in a small room and help to balance out a large room. However, there are some points that you have to be careful if you want to use this method, as you have to make sure that you left minimum space between pictures to create one unit and one focal point. The tips for placing large picture are you may have to hang them close to the furniture that has relative size of the picture. For example, you may hang large picture above the sofa but do not leave too much space between them to maintain both pieces feeling continuously.

However, before you decide to place any pictures, you should try to place them as many place as you can. Try different combinations of arrangements will help you to gain new idea of picture arrangements. You may use painter 's tape to help on marking the position that you have tried and feel that they are good position until you decide about the only one position that you like the most. Also there is a rule of thumb that you must place any of picture at eye-catching level to attract people’s attention, otherwise the pictures may could not much help as people could not see them.

About the Author

Cherdkiat Taesookavat is an architect, providing information and directories about home decor, please visit Home Decor

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