i'd center it on the first view you showed, and perhaps plan to add more similarly sized works of art (or groupings) along the rest of the wall. a console table underneath the art would ground it, make the area part of the room instead of a corridor, and keep people from bumping into it as well.

the wall is much too large to have a single work of art on it. now, someday you may have more items to hang and it makes sense to move it to the center... but today is not that day. i'd include it in your living room(?).

I would center on wall but add something to ground it as nnigrt mentioned.

It's hung too high.

Really? The designer that was helping me insisted 62" up from center not 60".

60/62 its just noise. it looks high because its square, and generally you would have a table or something underneath.

yeah if nothing is underneath I'd go lower

60-62", whatever is your eye level. and higher if you put a table underneath it.

Always listen to Grover.

Btw, can't see much of the room, but furniture and rug look very nice.

Thanks. It's work in progress. Sort of started from scratch after picking wall paint, which didn't work with my kitchen in a open floor. So hired a designer to bail me out of my mess and repainting shortly.. oy vey'

Steph, i moved the art straight down. If you're not putting a console under it, I would hang it just a bit above the center of the wall. This art will be viewed from the living area when you're sitting down. Eye level is the general rule, and eye level when sitting is way lower than 57" - 62". Besides, you want it to command the wall and it doesn't do that when it's too high. I'd hang it so the light switch is about 1/3 of the way up the piece of art.

Hey Grover. You know I'm a huge fan, and in awe of your knowledge and talent, but I've been troubled by this different-height-for-art-when-you're-sitting-down thing for a while. I get the reasoning behind it, but the thing is, aren't you sitting AND standing in pretty much EVERY room except a hallway? I mean even in dining rooms you spend some time standing; and often LOTS of time if it's a party that's not a sit down dinner. And overall, I guess I think too high art when sitting looks better than too low art when standing.

i agree, when i'm sitting i'm looking at my guests and my food.

My rule for hanging art is hang it where it looks good :)

I never use the term eye level as I think it's misleading. Art needs to hung in proportion to the other elements around it. It makes a difference if it is over furniture or hung by itself. In this case, a square , hanging by itself, should be centered , having equal distance between top of picture and ceiling and bottom of picture and floor.

This thing is too heavy to eyeball. I had to properly mount it before I could see it. I hate to disagree with the designer I hired, but everything she suggested raising, seemed wrong. I don't have high ceilings which she said was the reason for the 62" rule, but she still insisted everything was too low in my condo.

Ah, Tems' rule is probably the best one yet.

People rarely hang their art too low. My mission in life is to get everyone to lower their art. By the time I'm done, I figure the fashion will be to just set it on the floor. ;-)

I have been trying to give the optical illusion of higher ceilings in my 8 ft rooms. Hanging the art work a couple of inches higher does seem to help. I like the height in your first picture and would hang a floating shelf below to anchor it a bit. Down the hall I would group three prints of different sizes with a nature theme to tie in with your wood piece, over all grouping should fill a space similar to the single art piece.

Yes, where Grover moved it to looks much better to my eye. I wouldn't move it over, though, I think its left-right positioning looks perfect.

The eye-level thing always gets me. I'm short, and what is eye-level for *me* is far from it for a lot of other people. I had a tall contractor once, and the difference in our version of eye-level made for a couple of chuckles. My hubs is not significantly taller than I am, but even so he's always reminding me that my eye-level is too low so I have to find the place between 'hung too high' and 'hung at my eye level'. Basically, I have him hold stuff until I find the spot where it balances best - usually a little higher than I would initially go but lower than where most people's instinct to hang kicks in.