How To Hang Art In Your Home

Now it might surprise you to know that when I go to people's houses I don't immediately start analysing their decor and furniture choices. Well, a little bit, but only with half a eye as it were. Usually if a room is ok you don't tend to pick up on anything. If it's amazing then yes you notice. And at that point I will comment or should I say compliment. But then there's the other side. When it's wrong. And you know you can't say anything. But it becomes a little distracting. Like talking to someone with spinach in their teeth.

bridge road by jason lilley from affordableartfair.com image by Megan Taylor

And one of areas in which it's most often wrong is in the placing of the pictures on the walls. It's rarely about the art itself. Everyone has different taste after all, but so often - so often - the pictures are hung so high you can barely see them. And then it's really distracting because you might want to have a look but you have to crane your neck. Or you can't quite make out the de…