Naturally, we are not talking about some antique exhibits and masterpieces from auctions and exhibitions. You can get by inexpensive pictures of unknown artists or your own pictures, if you, of course, know how to draw. Before choosing a picture, think about the fact that it will always be in front of your eyes. Necessarily, at first decide in which room the picture chosen by you will hang. If you are not sure which option suits you best, ask for help from a design professional.
Suppose you decided to buy certain pictures, and here they are in your house. But all your diligence to diversify the interior can be reduced to zero, if you misconstrue the pictures on the wall. There are several recommendations for placing paintings that will help show the picture in all its splendor.
The most important rule is not to hang pictures very high. The optimal height is about one and a half meters from the floor level, so that its middle was approximately at eye level. In the living room should be placed the picture so that it was convenient to consider the person who will sit. There is one trick - try to hang a picture just below the level that was chosen by you.
If you decide to hang a few pictures in the room, the main thing is to group them correctly. Do not hang pictures on all walls of the room - the unity of the composition will be destroyed. If the pictures have the same dimensions, then they can be hung horizontally one after another with an equal distance between them. Paintings with different sizes are better placed one above the other, but the main thing is not in order of decreasing or increasing the size. It will be appropriate to hang pictures on the width of the couch, above the table or a low chest of drawers. Next to high furniture is better to place horizontal canvases. They will help to effectively support the situation of the room, create a single ensemble. Important is also the combination of paintings among themselves in style.
There is another way of grouping pictures that will also be effective in creating the right interior. This method involves placing in the center of a large picture and a few small around. Or, hang small pictures in one row, and hang large ones to the right or to the left of them, at a distance of about 30 cm. If you decided to hang horizontally two pictures of different sizes, then the larger fabric should be placed a little higher, which makes it easier to view a smaller image.
To make pictures look more impressive, they are often highlighted. At the same time, it is not necessary to mount light sources over each picture, it is enough to provide good lighting throughout the room. If you still decide to highlight the canvas, point the lamp at the image and, moving it, find the point at which the light will uniformly spill over the canvas without creating shadows and glare. That the colors of the picture are not distorted, and while it is well illuminated, only halogen low-voltage lamps should be used.