Ideas for living with art

Guides, essays and references on choosing, hanging and understanding art prints.

How to Style Retro Art in a Contemporary Home

A 1970s lamp, a 1950s poster, a sofa of today: how to combine retro pieces and art with a contemporary home without it looking…

Mustard brings warmth but needs restraint. What wall art suits a mustard sofa or wall, which colours balance it, and how to use mustard…

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese sensibility rooted in impermanence and imperfection, not just a trend. What it means, and how to choose wall art that…

Cornicing, high ceilings, original tiles and panelled doors: how to hang contemporary art in a period home while respecting its architecture.

From blush terracotta to rust: how to use terracotta wall art in a warm home, in what proportion, with which colours to balance it,…

From sage to bottle green: how to choose green wall art, which materials and colours suit it, and which greens work in the living…

Photography, ink or line drawing: how to style black and white wall art with frames, wood and colour, and how to stop it feeling…

A beige room with beige art can turn flat. How to use tonal value, undertones and texture so neutral wall art brings depth rather…

Art hung too high or too small, uneven gaps, crowded walls: the eight most common wall art decorating mistakes, and simple ways to fix…

Leaning prints on a ledge lets you layer them, swap them and avoid extra holes. How to style a picture ledge, mix art with…

Three prints in a row have a rhythm no other arrangement matches. When a triptych works, how to calculate its width, the spacing and…