Hello! I wanted to drop these two ideas here for anyone who might be interested in adding a screen print to their collection, but aren’t quite sure how best to display one in your space. This particular breakdown is pretty simple: you can try out the gallery wall format or you can let it make a statement by itself! This here’s how I “styled” my Trecento Archway print on my own gallery wall above the Beach Grandma Sofa™ in mine and my roommate’s old Greensboro apartment. (we miss her; she was cute). I hung this on the adjacent wall in the photo after this one just to show you how that could look, but its usual home was nestled on the gallery wall!
The Gallery Wall
This isn’t of course a perfect example of a gallery wall— I’d have balanced out that bright red frame a little more with a dark frame toward the bottom right, but I just worked with what pieces I had and tried to arrange them by size and shape.
Each has its own little “padding” to nest in, ie. enough space left between each frame. They also have visual padding in that competing pieces are kept spaced apart (eg. the white print with the white frame sits in between two more colorful pieces).
The round mirror is there to break up the boxiness of the angular frames, and its pointy gilded edges are supposed to be sisters to the more traditional gilded frame in the middle. The blue and the red are also meant to be frame sisters (is that a thing? now it is!). As always, keep a level handy and try to make a sketch of your wall before nailing.
Flying Solo
Exactly how it sounds, and a little more self-explanatory— this is just picking a space on the wall that feels like a good fit with your furniture’s placement and/or the room’s architecture/the size of the wall. (This is how I do it, at least!)
You’ll want to most of the time frame artwork so that it’s at your eye level, but of course one can use creative license with this.
I loved that the pillow and throw and lantern are all a bit busy, but the half-blank swatch of yellow lets your eye rest a bit. The wood of this frame also feels like a good fit with the eclectic-60s folk feeling I was going for with our apartment, as opposed to a metal frame. (I typically avoided these because they rarely seemed to fit this look).
There are of course other ways to display artwork (eg. sitting atop a credenza and leaned against the wall), but these are the two I employ most. If you have this print in your home, I’d love to see how you’ve displayed it! Happy framing! <3
