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What to hang over your sofa

Annie Elliott | October 26, 2025

Thank you, Amy, for asking about this! If YOU’re thinking about walls over sofas, chances are other people are, too ;) First things first, Gentle Readers: Do you have a fireplace? If so, what are you hanging above that? I am a believer in using mirrors sparingly, so if you have a mirror over the …

» Art, How-to

Mirror over the fireplace: yay or nay?

Annie Elliott | November 2, 2007

I used to be emphatically nay. Who wants to look at himself in someone else’s living room? And when you sit down, who wants to look at the ceiling? But Billy Baldwin made the good argument that if you have a beautiful fireplace and a beautiful piece of art, you create visual competition by placing …

» Art + accessories, Living Room + Family Room