Friday 17 November 2017

Featuring Contemporary Art Displays In The Home

By Karen Fisher


When it comes to buying and showing off art within a home, whatever is purchased is based completely on individual taste as art is very subjective. The contemporary art displays one would see in a gallery are not necessarily going to work within a family home. Personal taste will play a very big role, as well as budget.

Family photos, including those handed down through the years, can make a lovely art installation within a home. With the advanced technology available to us, it is really easy to take even the most worn and damaged photos and have them touched up and restored to look practically new.

If you have decided to fill a wall in your family room with pictures, select the area you will be doing the work on and begin the planning. Once the entire layout has been properly planned and the frames are attached to the wall, it should form a part of the whole effect in the area and bring your decorating scheme together.

Spend some time collecting the frames and pay attention to local thrift shops as well as people selling personal items at yard sales. It's also possible to find a good selection if you scour your local decor stores. Once they are all filled with pictures and hung on the wall, you will have an overall impression of a mismatched collection that holds beautiful pictures.

To make the presentation of your artwork more cohesive, use a photo editing program to convert all the pictures into the same tone, for instance, all sepia or black and white. Lay out the frames with your pictures onto a floor area that you have marked out to match the size of the wall space. Arrange them and move them around until the look is pleasing to the eye, keeping the frames in a non-conforming pattern but retaining a square or rectangular area. You want to make sure that there is a balance especially because your frames are not identical.

If you opt for matching your frames, the layout will be a lot easier to do. Pick bold black frames and set them out in a formal pattern with identical spacing between every picture for an aesthetically pleasing result. They could be in three rows of five frames or keep to a square of four rows of four frames. With a monochromatic frame plan, keep your photos in color for the best result.

If you select a specific theme for your wall of pictures, try to avoid using pictures only from one family occasion such as a wedding or themed party. Consider taking photographs on every family vacation and hiking trip or even just time spent in the garden. These pictures of nature and flowers make for a lovely topic and the collection can easily be added to over time.

Using family photos and showing them in a specific setting within the home is a very attractive way of decorating. First, the pictures are completely unique to you and second, it is a deeply personal subject. The overall installation will be special as well as adding the finishing touch of contemporary art display to a room.




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