When it comes to using art on the walls to decorate a room, there are a few basic considerations. The main ones that almost everyone figures out for themselves is the colour palette of the art pieces and their scale – after all, if your wall is red and wall space is limited you probably don’t put a huge lime-green photo in that spot.
Some of the other considerations surrounding sending your photos off for canvas printing online and then hanging them on your walls – or elsewhere, as we will see – are more complicated, and most people don’t figure them out until they dive in and start hanging art. The most challenging aspect is judging art against the space you have, and choosing the best way to hang your canvas pieces.
Guidelines for Hanging Canvas Prints on Walls
There’s an art to hanging pictures in a room, and entire books could be written on the subject, but there are a few quick tips that can improve your picture hanging immediately:
- Scale. Whether you’re hanging one large piece or several smaller pieces, there should always be a bit of space between borders and around the edge of your overall installation. Filling a wall to the edges looks crowded, as do canvas prints that butt up against each other.
- Height. Pictures should generally be hung at eye level unless they’re part of a larger installation plan. However, ‘eye-level’ is dependent on the primary function of the room: Think about whether people will be sitting or standing, and choose ‘eye-level’ appropriately.
Alternative Hanging Solutions
Of course, one of the advanced aspects of hanging wall art that escapes notice by newcomers to the interior design game is that you don’t necessarily have to hang canvas on walls by placing them centred and using traditional hardware. Look to the skies! Or, at least the ceiling.
Ceiling hanging systems allow you to hang your art from the ceiling without ever putting a nail into your walls. The simple advantages are obvious: No harm to your walls, less mess, easier to switch out your art whenever you wish.
The less-obvious advantages are just as powerful: You’re no longer confined by the wall space you have to work with, allowing for greater creativity in your installations. You can also hang art made from canvas printing online in places where there is no walls for you to work with – like between windows for an exciting effect, or in front of architectural features that make it difficult to use traditional hanging hardware.
Using your ceiling opens up all manner of possibilities for your personal art gallery – have fun and be creative with it! And when you’ve got some ideas on how you can use a ceiling mount system to do something amazing, click here and we’ll create some pieces that are worth hanging in your home.
