Imagine your home not just as a backdrop for your art, but as a canvas where every nook, cranny, and open shelf plays a pivotal role in bringing your collection to life. When you expand your vision to think outside of the box, you’ll notice empty spaces that can have the visual aesthetics enhanced with the use of decorative wall art. Some framed, some not, with others used as props on shelves. The art is only part of the arrangements. What surrounds framed prints or paintings displayed in art board inset frames can be elevated to new heights of appreciation.
Discover 3 Unexpected Places and Arrangements to Display Art
1. Transform your Summer Vibes with Art Displays on the Patio
A patio tends to start from one wall of the house. In the summer, when there’s no risk of rain, you can hang your art on that exterior wall of the house. Not all types will be suited though. Canvas prints are more resistant to ink-fading, although not immune. It depends on the length of the time the art is displayed in the sun, and whether you can get it under a bit of shade to protect it from the strongest of UV rays. If you want to switch your displays outdoors, forego any wall hanging brackets and instead, use the leaning art technique to show off multiple prints, and paintings. Canvas art (framed or unframed) and traditional picture frames can be leaned against walls, fences, or even planters on the patio.
2. Go Informal and Ditch the Frames
Decades ago, the walls of classrooms were decorated with wall charts as illustrative teaching tools. Today, most of that’s gone digital, but the traditional method of wall charts is still around. Mostly in arts and crafts marketplaces. These are types that lend themselves well to decorating unusually sized wall spaces without any frames. Take, for example, a tall and narrow nook in a hallway in a family home. Rather than struggling to create a narrow gallery wall display, display a colourful height chart for the kids to see how much taller they’ve grown from eating their 5 a day.
3. Use the Lean-To Technique to Display Art on Open Kitchen Shelving
Take advantage of open shelving in the kitchen for a lean-to art display that compliments a functional layout. You don’t need to sacrifice functionality for décor. Furnish your shelves with functional kitchen staples that can serve as artistic backdrops when not in use. For example, wooden chopping boards in different designs (leaf-shaped, circular), traditional wood rolling pins, and a few tall and slender bottles to store olive oil can add visual interest with square and rectangular picture frames being leant against the wall, adding art into the traditional culinary design layout. No hanging equipment is needed. Use the shelf space that’s already there. For a rustic charm, consider a floral print on a shelf with a small terracotta container for herbs on either side. If you want to soften the display, consider using lace doilies as a base mat for either the frame, planters, or bottles on the shelves.