Somethiongb feels off. Think I’d like the (great!) paintiing with a white border to show it off and pick up the flowers…make it bigger. Yes! Feels too closed in....to me.

Not sure. The wall color is really a nice complement to the art. I might’ve either matted with a lighter color to pull out the flowers or added a gold fillet between art & frame.

Hmmm....yea, maybe that's it - too closed in. The framer suggested not matting it, feeling it would detract from the painting.

The wall actually is a soft white (BM Moonlight), it's not reading as such because of the evening lighting in the room. In the daytime the wall is obviously white, which plays off the flowers in the painting.

I probably would have done a thin metal frame proably gold toned brushed or bronze

The frame is nice, but it needs a liner or mat to set it off IMO. Maybe not as wide as shown here but definitely something to separate it from the frame, such as the liner from Beverly.

What @BeverlyFLADeziner shows is the fillet I was suggesting. The white is better than the gold I suggested. I wonder if it could be added after the fact without removing the frame.

Strange that the framer thought a small mat or filler strip would detract from the painting. It would look very nice. Just like seeing a painting on a gallery wall, it can be helpful to have a strip of what around a piece of artwork.

@BeverlyFLADeziner That visual is very helpful - thank you!

I know nothing about the process of framing. Can they add a very thin mat like the one Beverly showed without re-doing the whole thing? I'd hate to have to get a whole new frame and glass just to have a thin strip of matting put down.

I did suggest doing just that but I don’t know about the how to. I would hope the framer would ’help’ with cost of a redo. It seems to me the addition of a fillet wouldn’t require a larger frame. Worst case, adding it would cover a tiny bit of the edge of art but really it’d be a tiny bit. It’s not a mat Beverly showed you but it’s a tiny edge - the fillet. The art might need to come out of the frame but they should be able to reuse the dust cover backing as well as all the wire / hooks etc. so no charge for new material. The only charge should be the cost of material for the added fillet edge. Go back to framer & ask! Framing art is too $$ to be unsatisfied with the result. Regardless of the opinions offered here, you asked the question. That, to me, says you’re not quite thrilled with the result.

Wait..........there's glass? What is this.... a print or an original?

There are only two ways to add a linen liner....make the frame larger or the art smaller.

A thinner frame or a mat to add some softness to blend the current frame and photo more cohesively.

"Wait..........there's glass? What is this.... a print or an original?"

Museum glass. Original painting. Was told by both local frame shops it needs to be behind glass to preserve it (it is watercolor).

I like a wood frame in nature scenes and landscapes so the frame echoes the trees and branches in the picture. All the same, custom frames are incredibly expensive, so if you can't get back what you paid, then live with it.

“Worst case, adding it would cover a tiny bit of the edge of art but really it’d be a tiny bit.”

Agree it might cover a very small amount of the painting but would also enhance it. It seems do-able to me with your frame.

With a narrow mat....

I happen to really like how it looks as is.

What is the rest of the room like where this is hanging? That will also weigh into the decision on what to do.

Can they add a very thin mat like the one Beverly showed without re-doing the whole thing?

No.

I like the mockup Beverly did with the very thin white border, but not the one Debbi did -- in that one, my eye goes to the white matting, not the painting itself. I wonder if a very thin olive green matting instead of white would look even better. But...

"Can they add a very thin mat like the one Beverly showed without re-doing the whole thing?"

...then it might not be worth the cost, at least not right now. Framing isn't cheap...

I was watching an episode of Downtown Abbey the other night, and there was a scene set in an art gallery, so of course since this frame is on my mind I focused on the paintings not the actors -- made me feel better about my piece because man oh man some of the framing was not only gaudy but downright butt-ugly LOL!!

I think a light color pulled from the painting could be nice for a mat. The right green could work, but a soft white or cream thin liner like Beverly’s example would be nicer.