How to Decorate with Fine Art
Decorating your home with original fine art is a chance to express your personal style, enhance your living environment, and live with beauty every day. Some people buy art to beautify a room, while others fall in love with a piece and decorate a room around it. Get inspired.
If you're buying an artwork because you love it, you'll find a place to hang it. If you want to enhance your living space, original fine art can offer design solutions when chosen and displayed with care and proper lighting. Here are a few ways you can use Original Fine Art as a decorating tool:
Create a complementary effect
While few art collectors would boast about choosing a painting to match the curtains, when decorating coordinating color schemes is often a primary consideration. While you might not match the overall color of an artwork to the palette of a room, you might look for a painting that complements the existing scheme, choosing a piece of art with a touch of the dominant color to pull the room's décor together.
Add a focal point to a room
Art can be a conversation piece and the star of a room. Choose an artwork with a compelling subject, vivid colors that contrast with your décor, or hang the artwork in a prominent place in the room-in a spot visible from the room's entrance, over a fireplace or above the main piece of furniture. If you really want to draw attention to a specific artwork in a room, be sure to minimize other decorative elements nearby. Try sculpture, as well, to add a third dimension to your decorating.
Use art to add space and light to a room
In a small or dark room, a painting that depicts light-filled spaces, windows or doors, landscapes with a good view of the open sky or expansive seascapes can bring light and air into a room. Artwork in light colors can really expand a small space.
Make a traditional space feel more modern
Combining bold, abstract artworks with traditional furnishings and décor can be a great way to enliven a classic space.
Choose the right artwork for the right room...
...Or the right room for a beloved artwork. Large-scale paintings might look their best in living or dining room, while a smaller print might be perfectly placed in the bedroom.