At first glance it looks like you've created 3 separate vignettes; there is no cohesion. Do they all need to be on the same wall?

Agree, that what you show does not work. It doesn't add to the space or highlight the art.

Can you remove the rocking chair? That wall could use some open space.

Move the rocking chair. Try this arrangement (instead of bar cart you have the small built-in). Notice the tight grouping. I would take the china off and replace with a plant...pothos are ordinary, but wow, they fill the bill.

The lining up of 3 on both the top and bottom is a problem. Place the art close together centered over the piano (test which one goes where). Move the pictures on the piano to the top of the bookcase and maybe edit the shelves so it’s not as busy. You also need a height variation on the left (fake plant?). Then stand back to access and keep testing until there is balance. Hope these pictures give you a bit of the visual effect.

Thanks all! The wall is so big that i fear that having only one print wont be enough - we can try to group them though. Do you think these particular three can be grouped? Plants are unfortunately out. Will try to move the chair as well.

I think they could be grouped if the frames were more similar. I'm all for mixing frames, but you need some type of "theme".

My gallery walls have a mix of "gold" frames and "gold"/black frames. Most are different, but they have the same color scheme and feel. These are larger than your pieces. I have more money "invested" in the frames than in the art! The right frame can really elevate an inexpensive piece of art.

It's the regular step-progression along the wall that is the basic problem. At least two of the three should be centered above the piano. The third could be over the shelves. Or better, put the third somewhere else. Two of them on that big wall, with some sort of smaller decorations on the shelf top, could suffice.

And when, and if, you can get some frames that enhance the art and your beautiful blue walls, that could be spectacular. And I also, have sometimes invested more in framing than in the art itself. But well worth it, or seeking it out in second hand shops or estate sales.

If possible, get matching frames for the ones on the left and right.

I agree with others. It's a long wall but that doesn't mean it has to be filled end-to-end. Group the 3 over the piano. Remove the teapots. There are too many little framed photos. If you must have some photos on the piano, limit it to 3. Try to edit the rest and just have a few on the top of the bookcase. As above. ^

I’d remove all from piano except for adding a piano light. If I had knickknacks on top of my piano, they’d likely fall off when I was playing. That would be distracting. Plus it’s a pretty piano. Let that be the statement.

Thabks you all! Ironically we just had tbe white and the silver ones framed (very expensively) The gold one is much older All the lithos are from the same artist. Seriously thinking now about reframing tbe gold one to match the silver and putting the white in the middle…but it was so expensive to frame the others!

This is very possibly the wrong wall for displaying these three items.

Let us see the Entire room please? All angles! I realize you are focused on one wall, but it lives with three more and one is open to something else : )

Before everyone jumps in to call me the mean girl......the whole wall and ALL on the wall is the problem!

The glaring white book case next to the piano, WITH a rocking chair and then three pieces of art you love..... all related ( same artist ) but telling no story as they are too far from one another. It's not the "Wall" it is a jumble!"

If you really want serious help? Draw and measure that room, walls, windows, opening, all with their dimensions, to include that book case /built in. Each wall window and opening with its OWN dimension. You may be pleasantly surprised what comes back to make the whole room BETTER.

she said.......

"Seriously thinking now about re framing the gold one to match the silver and putting the white in the middle…but it was so expensive to frame the others!"

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These are all Thomas Mc Night serigraph, yes? : )

( using examples Mc Knight ) below

They need unity to hang together

I'm not certain you're getting the best framing advice, as you spend a lot of money on these?

With plain mat/white and a mock of simple skinny silvery frame ( apologies art )

You want your eye to go to the content,........not the frame or mat: )

Matt matters, ( colored mats often detract ) size matters. More mat can make you want to come closer........

For all we know? They don't need to be together. Perhaps they would be best in another room or on different walls in the same room, where each could really shine on its own?

We don't know - we aren't seeing enough of all your spaces : )

Someone might make a BIG thing of them....

The dark wall is an issue to me…and the very beachy wall art seems out of place with the furniture and upholstery…maybe only hang the gold framed art over the piano and use the other two with white frames elswhere? That would be the easy solution without spending anymore money on them…otherwise they need to all be in white frames and hung closer together..maybe on another wall?

My other post evaporated. Room is quite large and we would like to keep these in it. Here are the other angles. Wondering if we can just reframe the gold to silver and hang them on either side of the vertical white? By the way the rocking chair won’t stay there. We just moved and are still placing furniture.

Could you add a straight shot looking at the fireplace please

I'd put the one on the left above the piano, although the one on the right would do, too. The middle one is too small for it's spot, but would be fine over the teapot shelf.

The room has two sort of separate areas to it. And although this is a straight shot it’s an unlikely viewing angle.

For those wondering, my husband’s grandfather, a collector, gave him many older pieces in ornate frames. We are trying to use many of them but don’t want to continue to frame new pieces to ”match.”

I'm not good at lying : )

You just moved, and perhaps sorting and unpacking treasure. Feels quite stuffed.

Sorry, but I see no purpose to the single accent wall in blue, it's accenting a bit of a jumble. I'd stop hanging art for a bit. Why? I think you need a prune of some case pieces. Maybe all your treasures can't be out .

Often in a down size? The best result comes from letting go of some things.: ) to let the best of what you have, really shine.

If you had the floor plan for the house, a lot of help might come your way here!

All understood, but we will have to do things one small bite at a time. And - sometimes there is a balance between what looks good and what feels good. My husband was really into having a blue wall and i do think the blue is pretty so we will need to work with it. We love having family pictures around and our kids love to see them when they come home so those will stay although maybe we will find a better way to display. Other things that don’t feel right include the pictures I posted about. Yes we can prune furniture but we have different opinions on which things. :) So we are still working on this.

A Digital Frame and a couple hundred revolving family pics can even be displayed on a smart tv.....or table top.

A good interior designer and a day with her in your home might astound DH...and you: )

A breezier result might await you. Less to dust, and........I will admit, more youthful surroundings : )

IMO al matching frames is where to start.then see where else these could go . Maybe dow a hallway but not on that wall IMO. Please post pics of the whole room. I see a lot of stuff on that wall already I think the art just gets lost there.

paint the wall, you have a traditional setting with antiques, and the art is sounding like you want a gallery feel. the blue wall, though fun and may feel fresh to you is fighting everything about the style of your furniture IMO

I would put art above the fireplace if you have to put two of them up there and I would group The Others over the desk it will make the room look less square with all the windows

After seeing more of the wall, I would move piano further away from the fireplace. The two similarly framed prints could both fit over the piano. Think that would help visually balance the wall more than current arrangement.

Ok understood you have lots of art want to display as much as you can..have to keep blue wall for now….lets try together to help with placement and maybe down the road change up the wall color and purge a few pieces….ok

1. do the 2 matching white framed art piece over each white bookcase ( flanking fireplace)

2. do gold framed art over piano

3. right of piano do a stacked set of art look for two smaller pieces if possible

that is a good start

than show us what pieces you have left over

Looks like you have a table and chairs at the far end of the room. Can you take a picture of that end of the room? Perhaps there is a large wall there that could handle a small gallery display of paintings? I also notice some gold framed art pieces on the floor to the side of your FP. I wonder if two could be stacked (one on top of the other) somewhere in the room.

julie, fyi all 3 of those art pieces have different frames.

This table and chairs are usually against the wall but we had a gathering last night so there is an extra table there right now that was for food Normally it would just be the table and two chairs (the other two are from the kitchen) and there is a large painting there as you can see which will likely stay there.

The other corner is my husband’s office (mine is on another floor) and our wall of games haha - so not everything in the room is super formal!

I am probably making your head spin now. We are reframing the gold one to match the silver frame on the other horizontal piece in my first post, by the way.

Also, while the gold is being reframed we have kept the other two up where the hooks were anyway. For now…until the other one is done ane maybe they all cluster above the piano?

Here are some of our other pieces but I don’t think they work in the room. I still have my office to do! The heavy frames are a lot though - not a huge fan. We have some giant pieces in the stairwell and they are best on their own. :)

A day of consult with a good interior designer for this new space can do same. Consider all the whole of all art AND furnishings. You'd feel joy with a bit of edit. : )

Not all of it can be on one room, right? That is why we'd love the floor plan and dimensions. Plus ..we're nosy.

I like Caroline O’s suggestion. At same time if you have not already done so, perhaps have a professional assessment of the art collection. It won’t be the first time a ‘collector” relative thought a piece had little value or vice versa and a significant piece is lying on the floor. Then you might hang more important pieces in certain rooms along with your favorites. I do wish furniture could be rearranged so TV not so high up (neck strain) on a pretty fireplace better served with a beautiful painting.

It costs very little to change the mat ........ which is not good for your art here ?

Compare, especially the middle

@Caroline O We are also in the same situation. New home, a lot less wall space. I've hung a few things but I have 50+ framed items stacked in a spare room waiting for me to make a decision about them. I love the idea of a fresh eye, thank you for posting about your experience.

As to fresh eyes......

How many times has this happened to me?

Finish a reno. Lots of new furniture, Lots of art. Walls have moved, and some are more, some are less.

Client is not home, all day I hang art, walk the house, lay out best spots for all of it and not one piece goes to its ORIGINAL spot.

True below.......a client

" OMG!!! It's like I am seeing my art for the first time!! This is incredible! I forgot I even HAD this one over here!!!"........

Get a designer in there, and do a big edit, ALL.

Everyone is kindly telling you the same thing:

When you move, all the cookies rarely go back in a box, the way they came out: ) Sometimes a few are broken or..........stale.

@Jan the mats are wll white or very slightly off-white…perhaps they look a little less bright in the picutres. Believe me - nothing has gone in its original place! However my huband is very attached to all the art that came from his grandfather. Two of the three pieces pictured in this discussion were recently purchased and not part of that original collection. Thank you for the advice.

Bring your husband into the conversation with the designer or art consultant. They will be tactful about addressing family pieces but will also help him see them through fresh, dispassionate eyes. @Jan Moyer’s client’s experience was similar to ours: Seeing our things beautifully arranged in our new space was like seeing them anew. I could have gotten us 70 percent of the way there, but it was that final 30 percent that made all the difference.

If you do hire a professional, please post the results so we can all see the transformation. You have so many. “Treasure’s” both art and furniture.They deserve to be seen in their best light for you to enjoy. Also art needs to be protected from direct sun, a professional will help you achieve this.

Some husbands have different ideas about the decor and some don't even care so if you know he doesn't care about decorating then you don't need to include him but you could put his pictures that he likes if you don't care for them in the office

my DH has a few favorite pieces of art that I do not like at all. He hangs those in his private office.

It looks like you are trying to squeeze every furniture and art into this one room. Maybe there are other rooms that could use a table or chair in the corner so you can keep the pieces but spread them around.

I don't know how you dust all those small photo frames!

From the pictures it looks like husbands. “Office” is part of the room in a corner.. By choice or necessity not matter as it is there. No hiding pics in the “office” but perhaps in a bedroom.. When downsizing or moving sometimes just have to figure out how to make it work. Which is what we are all trying to help her and husband do. I’m with those comments to have an “outsider” help poster with her task.. Too much good stuff with some little stuff that needs corralling to make this room shine its best.