Decorating

Home Decor Accessories

July 19, 2016

Apart from complimenting your newly painted walls with soft furnishings and effective flooring, home decor accessories in a room are just as equally important. Accessories ranging from flowers in a contemporary vase to art pictures hanging on your walls, all add the finishing touches to any room. Above all, home accents add personality to a room, they inject your own personal touch making your home unique to you and comfortable and inviting for you and your family.

Decorating with Art - You will be surprised at the important role that art pictures play in home decor accessories. Not only do pictures add your own personality into the room, they absorb noise and can actually help change the illusion of a rooms' shape if placed in the right places. Some examples would be that horizontal landscape artwork help widen a room; portrait floral pictures help give the illusion of height; and one large picture reflected through a mirror gives the sensation of additional broader space.

For a maximum effect and to make interesting Decorating with Art that can become a dynamic focal point of the room, try to hang smaller pictures in a cluster. If you hang an even number of smaller prints tightly together in a cluster, this will help balance out a large space and give a window effect in a small space. Remember to hang the prints together tightly to create one unit and one focal point.

For larger pictures, place them in proportion to the furniture. For example, hang a large picture approximately six to nine inches above a sofa or at eye level. By hanging a larger print too high

above any piece of furniture can leave both pieces feeling disconnected.

Before hanging any art on a wall, try different combinations of arrangements. Use painter's tape and brown paper bags and keep rearranging the bits of paper on the wall until you have come up with

a great picture arrangement. Always hang prints at eye level and use your hand in between pictures

as a guide to space large and medium sized pictures.

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