Properly arranging wall decorations can be a time consuming and frustrating home design project if you don’t accurately stage your wall space before you begin. If you have attempted to hang decorative accents on the wall only to find that your measurements were way off or you failed to accurately support a leveler, then you are certainly not alone. Hanging decorative wall art can be one of the most rewarding home improvement projects if you sufficiently arrange your wall decorations before you begin. For a few practical tips on how to effectively hang wall art on your wall surface, apply these techniques to your decorative design.

Arrange Decorative Items at Eye Level with Sufficient Support

To ensure the most effective height elements to your wall décor, strive to keep the pictures, sconces, mirrors, and prints at eye level. Since your family and home guests probably represent a wide range of height variations, arrange your wall decorations so that the middle of the item is approximately five feet from the floor. The only exception to this rule might be a child’s room where the wall decorations need to be a bit lower to accommodate their smaller stature. In order to secure your wall art appropriately, choose hardware that can sufficiently support the weight of the piece. Picture hooks and sturdy decorative hangers can be used to ensure stability for your wall hangings.

Arrange Wall Art in Groupings

Wall art looks scattered and disjointed when it is hung sparsely around a room in a nonconforming manner. To avoid this empty and unstructured design, choose to group decorative wall accessories together to create a more substantial impact. Grouping creates drama. To ensure that there is still a harmonious blending of the objects, select frames and mattes that are similar and consistent. The wall decorations, including mirrors, dishes, and sconces don’t have to be hung in a straight line as long as there is symmetry and coherence to the design. If you add a bit of variety to the room, you won’t have to be totally dependent upon a leveler to balance the living …

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Are you getting tired of your boring bedroom? Are you decorating a baby’s nursery or your teenage daughter’s bedroom? These are some tips that can be used in the bedroom of someone of any age.

First of all, if you are redecorating, you need to determine what has to stay and what you would like to see go out the door. Paint and bedding are easy to replace, but flooring and furniture are not so easy to get rid of. Then you are going to need to determine a theme that will work with what you are keeping in the room, or a feeling you would like to create. Do you want to bring the relaxing ocean to your sanctuary, or perhaps a more sophisticated feel?

You will need to figure out a budget next. What are you going to spend the budget on? Perhaps you are going to keep the bed and nightstands you already have, as well as the hardwood flooring, but would like to buy an area rug and maybe a chair for the seating area.

Determine a layout and what you have room for. Remember, you are going to need to be able to walk around the bed; don’t place anything in the way of getting to the other side! Beds are best centered on something, whether it is a window or a blank wall. Nightstands can be placed on either side of it, if there is room.

Lighting is also important to figure out right away; it affects how everything is going to look in the room. Are you going to keep the fixture you have, or replace it with something that better fits your theme? Do you have a lot of natural light coming in, or would you like to keep the windows covered?

Next, you are going to want to go shopping. Buy the most important features of the room first-flooring, furniture, lighting…

The fun part is selecting the bedding and window treatments. Remember, colors and patterns are important when it comes to sticking to your theme. Ask for the opinions of the …

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