Gallery Walls | The Do's and Don'ts!

Happy new year ! Very helpful Nick !
Could you do a don’ts. with wallpaper please ? 🙏🙏🥰🕊️

What's your advice for hanging gallery wall pieces so that they remain level?

I love the « put stuff as you go «  photos, LOVE THEM. I understand that this make busy, but I move them… i think if is a more hiddeb wall ou corner is a very ❤️

"Don't just start putting stuff on the wall" *sweats nervously *

Thanks! I had NO idea where to start. EXCELLENT! THANK YOU!!❤

Why are people so reserved ? So many views and few likes. What's wrong ? Maybe it's the sensation of "touché". 😅

I think the super adorned bathroom looks cool. Almost like wallpaper. Or the small wall covered with pictures. Definitely quirky and busy and a little obnoxious but Its charming imo. I think the very precisely placed gallery walls also look great though.

This was super helpful, thank you!

When in a college apt- 4 boys 2 bedrooms (cheap and crowded), my son and his roomies bought every homely, framed family photos from thrift stores they could find and made an entire gallery of their "family" photos. Oddly enough, it looked great with all the buck toothed aunties and plump guys in fedoras. They had carefully planned the space. Your point worked even with those images.

Thankyou for all the fun ideas great ideas ❤

I like the first example

So I have 2 walls (that meet each other) to hang art because everything else is an open floor plan, windows, the TV over the fireplace, or built-ins. The problem is my biggest wall for art is half interrupted by the stairs coming down and the sectional that curves around that wall, the center is just a few inches shy of where the staircase interrupts. Is there a way I can create a gallery wall and tie the couch to the table that is likely at the end and frame them together due to that staircase? I plan on doing one large piece on the wall that intersects with it (by the table at the end of the couch) as that is a smaller wall to contract the gallery type mosaic I want to do on the other (like your bluer art collection example). Help? Everything says center art over couch but that means no art at all b/c of staircase or 5" wide piece/pieces of art on a 9 ft wall which wouldn't look good either.

Can you please do a video of different ways to display family photos while still keeping a modern non suburban mom vibe? Also a video about how to bring your home design come together - is it a faux pas to have a different theme for each room etc?

Hello Nick!
I have a big long wall and I would like to make an art gallery above my credenza( 72'). Can I add a big round mirror around the artworks above the credenza? Can I make gallery bigger than the credenza?

Excellent visual examples! Love the “Do’s and Don’ts.” Great information and tips.

Such useful techniques! Thanks a million.

Very useful. I’m doing a gallery wall on all 4 walls of a small bathroom where I can’t repaint from the dark Chelsea Grey. I am making my own acrylic art pieces on different sizes of gallery wrap canvas. This should brighten the room which is only 30 sq ft and has a ten foot ceiling and will be easily changeable for next person.

damn I was really bout to just start adding stuff up on the wall lol

Hi Nick, what do you think about using wallpaper samples to put them in picture frames? could that work combined with some original art for a gallery?

I love all your videos!!!! You give the best tips ❤

Perfect timing! I’ve been repurposing frames for old family pictures. We formed a Facebook group and invited all the relatives we could find so we could share old photos. I now have beautiful family pictures from the 1800’s on up. The only changes I made to them was the I printed most in sepia tones since that was what many of them were anyway. I have dozens framed but haven’t worked up the courage to start hanging yet.

Love these tips. I’m scared of making a mistake. I’m considering using a picture ledge as a baby step/alternative.

As an artist who only paints brightly colored sea creatures in a space backdrop… my gallery wall always looks out of place for whatever style my home is lol

My dad paints portraits of family members. My daughter confiscated some from me, her dad, an uncle, some she had, and made a gallery wall in her open stairwell. The entry way has a railing open to see the whole wall. She loves it.

Such a helpful video, thank you!

Hi 👋 I love your video. Thank you. I have a large vertical painting in the center of living room white wall behind a couch. I was planning on adding Ancient Greek plates on one side and adding two square box pictures (top/bottom) on the other side…. Does this go? I have traced an outline of them and shapes look good. I’m just wondering if what I’m hanging goes?

Maybe folks here can help me... I'm really into music and have collected dozens of concert posters over the years (most around 24x17 inches). I have many of them framed and hung in the living room, bedroom, and even the bathroom. My problem is I have SO MANY that are sitting on a shelf because I have run out of space (they are currently all spaced about six inches apart in a single row). What I'm considering is to take all of them out of the frames and use them as wall paper on one huge living room wall. Not sure the best way to adhere those yet, but I have done staples in the past (right onto the drywall - which works much better than you'd think). What are YOUR thoughts on this project??? Thanks for ay advice!

The overloaded gallery walls in the small bathroom picture you label as a don't actually is aesthetically OK.
Overloadedness do work in small spaces.

There’s this little country breakfast “restaurant” near us. They have, what I call, an obituary wall. It’s about 8 ft long and 3 feet high and it’s covered with funeral bulletins. And some of them have been there for YEARS ! 🙄🤮

Outstanding advice and very comprehensive. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

I have two gallery walls and I love them. I like the look of a big piece in the middle with smaller ones around. And I like doing that central frame with a colored frame and then all the rest black. The focal point in the gallery wall feels nice to me.

The center point of the gallery wall (any stand alone art work) should be the average eye hight of 57 inches.

The most expensive part is that special ladder that you will need to get higher.

This video cones across a shade judgemental. Do what you want in your own home

May I add, pay attention to sun light on tour art, it may act to decolorate the canvas and the pigment.

I collected a lot of illustrations and Sketch made by comic book artists, and I wasn to do a galley wall with all of that framed. Great tips in this video!

Hi Nick, I really appreciate the helpful tips. I have inherited many of my mother's paintings and tile as well as many very old family photos that hung so beautifully in my family home. Our family home was much larger with ample wall space to do everything justice. My Palm Desert home doesn't have nearly the wall space necessary however, I do have vaulted ceilings. The conundrum is how not to overcrowd, not to hang too high, and not to hang these cherished items too close together, etc. Oh, how I wish you could pop in to lend a hand! 🙏 Overwhelmed!

Nick, what’s your take on a gallery of wall baskets?

Thanks for this informative video.

One more tip...
When placing all the paper cutouts on the wall to visualize all the art, carefully measure where the hanging hardware will go first, and nail them into the wall through the papers. That way you can tear off the papers and hang the art in the exact space the first time, without making additional holes, and messing up your wall.
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Great video. Love your message about making word art a don’t and avoidance of generic art. I could not believe my eyes when I walked into a relative’s home that was completely decorated with word art. How does this happen?

Love the idea of mapping it with paper and tape. It was really hard to do the large pictures on my stairwell where they were not all the same size and the wall is two stories at one end. I used the same artist (everybody loves Kincaid pinks/purples where all his art uses the same palette no matter what location he paints) so the colors combined and the frames/mats matched but it was hard getting the white space to balance. Also you view the art from many different angles like the landing above, and even the front door views the stairs so people notice it right away. The very long hallway was easy and I went with black and white large pictures with a lot of detail because there you are standing right next to the picture so complex scratch art drawings of wolves, polar bears and other wildlife worked great. Even those Xray photos of plants went with the complex black and white theme. The runner is turkish and very red. I like it but my sister is a minimalist and calls my style old fashioned which to me is French Provincial and not Danish Modern or what you call mid century (sorry I am old).

I have collected over 200 postcards in my travels… will it look too crowded if I was to put a few together in different frames?

Should I only put the framed paintings up?

Plot twist: do all the don'ts to annoy your friends and family😂

Green..? Girl…. Idk if you know… that’s blue. Like… that’s VERY blue tape. You may be colorblind

In terms of hanging too high, is there a kind of default distance you want to be from the ceiling as well? I know you said 5-7 inches above the (headboard, desk, etc)

Nick hi! What's the best gallery layout for a sloping high ceiling/wall towards the right side? Thanks for the great ideas.

This was super helpful although I'm still not totally confident I can pull it off. I lost recently lost my female dog 46 days ago and her brother passed in 2017. I'm going to be doing a couple larger shadowboxes with some of her most cherished awards and plan on placing them on a smaller entryway wall all by themselves.

On another wall, I would like to do a gallery/memorial wall of fun pictures of both of them. I have a 12x12 matted to 8x8 portrait of both of my dogs. I also have approximately 8 qty 5x7s in matted 8x10 frames. All frames are black which I believe kind of ties in with my household. I would assume I would use a more symmetrical design around the 12x12 giving them 3 to 4 inches between. Would that be appropriate or should I rethink my idea? I really enjoyed your video. Thank you.

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I loved this . Thank you !
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