Did you try Googling that?

Eye level is the gold standard for art. If you can't walk up to it and see it, it's too high.

In gigantor oversized rooms that are beyond human scale and more like municipal buildings, you take a page from the courthouse and use extremely large scale items, few of them, and they dwarf human scale. That is how you ''fill'' all of that blank useless space. You don't mix scale on the walls. No small portraits of your dog mixed with the giant reproduction mural of the mastodon from the Smithsonian Rotunda.

Sophie you are enabler;)

Nah, just occasionally a tree stumper pedagogue using the questions as a springboard to rail against design idiocy.

Sophie- when you speak to me you need to dumb down the language, I am but a simple being;) Hah- now I will have to Google lol .

Don't be a bully Margo. I am a design idiot who just discovered Houzz yesterday, so please forgive my eagerness to ask a question within a forum where I feel I can get a genuine answer.

Chill audree- suggesting that you Google is bullying? WOW- s-e-n-s-i-t-i-v-e are we? Perhaps you should ask your doctor if a public forum is right for you.

On a better note: Welcome to Houzz. Enjoy the ride and keep a sense of humor!

Forgive me. I come bearing Houzz warming gifts;)

Welcome Audree!

"Eye level" is pretty vague, and could vary....so take the following for what it is worth...free advice ;) I had a semester of gallery design in college (like 2 decades ago....). "Eye level" standard, according to that professor, was 5'. We asked since we had a student under 5' to others over 6' in the class & we recognized quickly that would account for a wide variance. I'm about 5'2" so my team members used me as a guide to speed our team's time hanging our portion vs measuring out every picture, lol, since my eyes were pretty close to 5'. We received an "A", so I guess it worked.

Now, can this 5' rule be broken? Of course, but that is a whole other discussion on room proportion, the piece(s), etc. If you are working in a residential home with 8-10' ceilings, start with 5' as your midline point for the artwork, pictures, or photos. Meaning the piece's half way mark/middle should be at 5' when hung (slightly higher is usually better than lower if you are struggling).

If it is a grouping of say photos, the middle point of the grouping should hit at 5'. Again, I'd lean slightly higher than lower if it looks off. With groupings it is better to lay them out on a long table or the floor (lay something down to protect the frames), put them upside down & get general feel for how tight you want the grouping & what will go where. Pottery Barn use to have an easy take home guide in their stores, I am sure similar things exist online. Remember that you have to account for how it is hung (whether at top of frame or if on a wire...when hung on a wire, will the wire be at the midpoint of the piece if it is taut or is there slack and how high up will it go...). Measuring is key, and the process can take time if more than one piece is involved. If you want you could even do a mock up with blue painter's tape & paper cut to size (or taped together to mimic a larger piece).

Hope that helps :)

@ audree - beware of Margos bearing gifts !

+ I think that question could actually break Google or maybe even The Internet.

Hey- I could have served up a leg lamp or a moose head;))