According to home fashion designers, even most refined modern interior will seem faded and not finished, if it is not recovered with such elements of decor, as a picture, a print or an art poster. Cloths — whether these are reproductions of great pictures or intricate posters in pop art style, will help to make home fashion conditions cosy and original, tell a lot about house owner. However, placing “house varnishing” in an interior correctly is the whole art demanding certain skills.

House ego

Today you will hardly find persons wishing to buy pictures by a principle “as everyone”. Everyone wishes to decorate his house with something unique, original, “author’s”, and there are lots of variants now — for any purse. But in such situation each chosen picture, as litmus piece of paper, reveals presence (or absence) of taste and degree of our art sophistication. And the matter is not that subjective predilections can expose our aesthetic simplicity, after all a bought picture needs also to be entered in an interior organically, and this can be uneasy. For this reason more and more people today trust selection and placing of pictures to interior experts.

Carbon copy masterpiece

Pictures certainly give special cosiness to interior. And it is not so obligatory to have expensive originals at home. Various reproductions, posters, prints — copies of known cloths or posters-photos, original prints with images of beautiful city landscapes, unusual subjects, landscapes are no less attractive from the point of view of design. However, irrespective of whether this is a valuable family relic or inexpensive colourful poster, they should be placed where they will look well.

Be cautious, modernist style!

For example, classical painting is successfully entered in a classical interior with a fireplace, silk wall-paper, furniture from massive wood, crystal and gilding. Bible and antique plots bring an element of luxury and continuity of traditions in a house. Genre sketches can underline a house owner’s occupation or hint about sphere of his hobbies. Smart portraits of household members will give sensation of own importance to a family. And landscapes will remind of favourite corners of the nature, transfer spectator to the world of illusions.

There are also no less variants for admirers of modern styles. Bright vanguard pictures will complete a minimalist interior well. Cloths of impressionists and easy water colours with vegetative drawing will decorate conditions in a modernist style. Such works are good not only as a separate work of art, but also as a colour stain, giving special colour to any premise.

Mount

However, works of art are whimsical subjects. Some especially valuable copies “dictate” conditions approaching for them. And if you get under their charm, it is necessary to change an interior. Anyway, you cannot avoid expenses on a noble frame. A frame (baguette) for a picture is like clothes for a person. It should correspond to size, colour of a picture and style of a room by all means.

Cloths written by oil should not be placed under glass. For modern pictures use smooth colour frames, and for ancient — carved gilt. A drawing (including a water colour) should not be inserted into wide frames “ala bronze”, and they are usually placed on mount (colour fields). Colour mount should be in harmony with colour of a picture and frame. It is possible to insert graphic sheet between two glasses and fasten clips.

Keep at a distance

— Choosing a picture (a reproduction, a poster, a print), it is important to represent accurately, what room it is meant for. For example, an optimum variant in a bedroom — image of colours, and also landscapes and portraits executed by pastel or water colour.

In a drawing room big bright cloths creating an atmosphere of solemnity, cheering up mood are better. In a dining room still-lifes (baguette with glass will protect them from stains, which occurrence is quite possible in this premise) are logical. In a hall and an office graphic works and gentle water colours, prints with city landscapes will be pertinent.

Drive into a corner

Another important question: how to place pictures indoors correctly? After all, well-placed cloths will help underlining advantages of an interior, without breaking its integrity.

— It is natural that the one and only picture in an interior always draws attention to itself. Therefore, single works are also placed usually on a foreground. But thus they necessarily should be in harmony with other subjects of an interior.

For example, one cloth will be lost and seem alien, casual on an absolutely empty wall.

Try to find a place over lunch or a desk, a sofa, a sideboard, a bookcase or a fireplace — as a matter of fact, over any furniture or an architectural detail, which will visually help to allocate it. Especially it concerns reproductions or prints of the small size.

Big cloths can decorate an empty wall, but not all houses have places for pictures of such impressive size, which can occupy whole wall entirely.

In the thick of the press

If there is a lot of furniture in a room, it is difficult to find a place for a picture. After all squeezed between regiments, it looks not too aesthetically. In that case it is better to choose a small picture of light tones. But it is possible to place any pictures over fashionable today low furniture.

Drawing, water colour, and also modern painting in pop art style are combined practically with any furniture. In this case cloth can be hung up over furniture on the centre or displaced in one side for the best visual perception. it is preferably to place pictures on walls with monophonic wall-paper.

Large and bright patterns are incompatible with pictures.

Make a single picture a part of interior composition. It is necessary, that the cloth will supplement or underline this or that element of decor — a vase with flowers, floor lamp, bowl.

Picture family

If there are several cloths, they will look most effectively in the groups united on subjects, style, technics of execution. Isolated pictures can be inserted into same frameworks. When you cannot find a link between pictures, try to unite them, having arranged inside an accurately designated contour.

One more of widespread home fashion receptions — to organise small pictures round large. Such composition will look especially advantageously ina room with high ceilings. But it is not necessary to hang up big pictures in small rooms with low ceilings, as one can estimate their colour and composition only from a distance of two-three metres. For such rooms small cloths will approach.

Pictures in light pastel tones will visually expand a premise. By the way, on ladders and in small rooms it is possible to hang up a landscape. It will visually make a premise more spacious.

Size at size

Cloths identical in size should be hung out on a wall abreast, equally spaced, and possibly symmetrically, in the form of “grid”. Success of a composition is defined by severity of vertical lines and identical intervals between pictures. An official look will be given to an interior by two identical pictures located symmetrically, for example, over a sofa or a table …

Rehearsal on the floor

In general experts advise to hang up pictures always slightly lower, than it would be desirable. Especially in a dining room, after all here visitors will see it, most likely sitting at a table. Designers do not recommend to hang out a picture on room perimetre (on each wall), as this interferes with creation of unity of premise composition.

Very often pictures, in itself not too interesting, win from the neighbourhood with each other, creating unique combinations of colour stains. However, the return result, when interesting products “eclipse” , “interrupt” each other is also possible also. You can check up compatibility of pictures, preliminary having spread prospective group of cloths out to the floor in the conceived order — the sight “from above” will reveal all merits and demerits of composition.

To see better

By the way, recent trends in interior design assume spacious placing of each picture, so that a spectator could concentrate attention to a cloth and estimate its originality without hindrances. The same purpose is served by illumination, though in a light premise you can manage without it. Nevertheless the system of picture illumination, built in a frame, will give you a chance to enjoy favourite product all day and night. And if it is necessary to move work of art once, illumination will not need to be transferred.

But keep in mind — illumination of pictures should be approached to natural as much as possible. An ideal variant, especially for cloths under glass, — dot fixtures, and not with yellow, but with white luminescence, directed on each picture. To avoid effect of a mirror, use special glass “antipatch of light” for a picture.

Vampires from art

Psychologists and experts in painting are assured that some pictures take away energy from a person, while others generously share it. Products that can be called “vampires” - pictures in styles of abstractionism, constructivism, cubism. Avoid their placing in a bedroom, children’s room, an office and a dining room — that is in places of “constant dwelling”. “Donors”, good in any premise, are creations of artists-impressionists and realistic cloths written in light and warm colours. Prints, posters, collages with images of children, animals, the sea and sea inhabitants, summer and spring motives strengthen vivacity of spirit and inspire optimism.

The main thing is that pictures should cause emotions, conformable to character and a way of life of a house owner. When pictures cause feeling of discomfort, it is better to remove them, despite of their art value.