22 Ways to Hang Pictures You Might Not Have Thought Of
Turn a blank space into a museum-worthy arrangement with these new ways to show off even the most basic pieces.
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Turn a blank space into a museum-worthy arrangement with these new ways to show off even the most basic pieces.
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Group Like Images
A wall's worth of wildflowers (no fewer than 40!), pressed by a local artist, enlivens the center hall in this Antebellum Georgia house.
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Show Off Your Vacation Photos
Photos from the homeowner's off-season travels in South America hang in the bedroom of this New Hampshire home.
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Scour Flea Markets for Budget Art Ideas
The bird engravings in this New York estatecost less than $5 a pop at a flea market in Italy.
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Showcase Cool Collectibles
An array of junk-shop loot—mirrors, taxidermied birds, a horse bit—fills one living-room wall of this upstate New York home.
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Use What You've Got
A mid-1800s portrait, which came with this historic Connecticut cottage, feels apropos against the dining area's original wood paneling. Steel bistro chairs from Industry West deliver a jolt of modernism.
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Create a Salon-Style Gallery
Jazz up your bathroom by hanging artwork salon-style: a collage of frames in a variety of sizes hung on one wall, as shown here in this Atlanta loft.
A wire photo rack— this one is from Harvest Home—shows off an ever-changing array of images in this California cabin.
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Use Narrow Shelving
This gallery-esque wall uses several short picture ledges to create two super-long shelve, and gives the homeowner freedom to swap mirrors in and out with ease.
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Show off DIY Decor
The key to truly original art? A pair of scissors! Textile whiz Thomas Paul cut these woodland silhouettes from vintage wallpaper, then pasted them on kraft paper in our 2012 House of the Year.
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Keep With a Theme
Instead of pricey artwork, the owners of this New York home focused on landscape paintings, scooping up many for next to nothing at flea markets, then grouping them together along the stairway and entryway for greater impact.
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Show Off Your Kids' Masterpieces
Jennifer Jones, the creative mom behind ihearstorganizing purchased three maple cabinet doors for $5 a piece, spray-painted them white, then rolled the center of each door with Glidden's Blue Lagoon. She drilled a hole in the top of each cabinet, screwed a magnetic clip on to each, then attached a metal label holder to the bottom of each door. Now, she has an easy wasy to change out her kids' designs.
In this New York beach house, inexpensive framed maps creatively chronicle the family's travels.
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Keep an Eye Out for Overlooked Spots
Even small spaces can be turned into a spotlight for artwork. In Tony Shalhoub's Martha's Vineyard cottage, small pieces by Bonnie Egan hang on staircase risers for unexpected visual appeal.
When hung separately, small pieces don't have the same impact as when grouped together, like in this Pennsylvania home where a silhouette collection covers an entire living room wall.
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Mix in a Variety of Media
A salon-style art gallery made up of photography, found objects, drawings, and more hangs on beadboard walls in this Pennsylvania home.
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Create Your Own Artwork
In our 2010 House of the Year, we recycled one old book, Art Forms in Nature, into a hallway's worth of prints.
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Switch Up Your Hardware
Drapery clips provide an easy way to show off flash cards in this California home.