Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
I love small businesses. I mean, I know I am one, so that makes sense, but when a professional photographer and a letterpress owner /graphic designer said they needed a bossy basic for a new meeting space, I jumped at it.
They each have their own offices, but they decided to go in on a nice room in a central location where they could meet with clients. This is the room before. Not huge....
Not so long ago, I spoke with you about "art walls." We started with WHAT to Hang, then moved on to how to FRAME it, and then how to HANG it.
Seems I got one of my clients all riled up.
There's a gigantic blank wall in her cheerful gray dining room....
This is the final installment in the "How to create the perfect art wall" series.
I believe my living room art wall will be my last obsessive personal project in 2010. Even though (spoiler alert) it might not even be finished.
But to review. Recently, we talked about what to hang on an art wall. Framing. And different ways to hang the art - in a grid, randomly, etc.
Even armed with all of that information, though, there's that je ne sais quoi that tells you whether an art wall is successful or not....
So you're surrounded by old favorite and newly-acquired pictures, all resting comfortably in their shiny new frames.
Now what?
There are about a zillion "right ways" to create an art grouping. But my saying, "Just fiddle around with the layout until it looks right " is supremely unhelpful....
Part deux in a trois-part series. Part un was “What to Hang.”
Now that you’ve ransacked your closets, shopped online, and sneaked things out of your grandmother’s house, you have to frame the goods.
We know that having some unifying element on an art wall is a good idea....
"Art walls" have been on my mind for weeks.
Sort of a clunky term, but it's descriptive. "Salon grouping" is more elegant, and I seem to remember the phrases, "masterpiece hanging" and "gallery hanging" from graduate school...but I could be making those up....
Hi, Annie. I'm sure you have suggestions for amazing things that can be done in an urban rental apartment without a ginormous budget. Right?
I moved in almost a year ago, and while I like to think that I have good taste, I haven't really been able to put together a cohesive design/feeling for the place.
In some ways I'm not sure where to start...