Gallery Wall: Set accents with a picture wall in the bedroom

Filling empty walls with decorative life is sometimes not that easy: do you choose a shelf that you can equip with decorative elements? Or do you mount a mirror? Or do you prefer to attach pictures? The latter can provide a very personal and individual touch and become a very special eye-catcher if you skillfully combine several pictures – as so-called Gallery Wall. Here you can find out what to consider when attaching and combining.

Gallery Wall: Install picture walls correctly in the bedroom

Once hammered into the wall, removing a nail and hiding the hole is cumbersome. Therefore, the Arrangement of the picture walls well thought out being. It is best to prepare yourself well and plan the total work of art in advance. These steps will help:

preparation

For the correct installation of a Gallery Wall you need the following things:

Motif selection

Once the first preparations have been made, it is time to the appropriate motives to collect. Of course, these should also fit into the room to be equipped. If you choose picture walls for the bedroom, you should take a look at which colors dominate there. In order to have a particularly harmonious effect, the image motifs and frames should pick up on existing tones. However, you can also deliberately set accents by deviating from the color concept or using complementary colors so that the Gallery Wall stands out. But mostly are with small color highlights the best choice to fit into the room and still stand out. In addition, the motifs should match each other stylistically and not each individual should stand out.

The combination of different image sizes as well as portrait and landscape formats. Frames and suspensions may also vary, but the mix of colors and materials should match. Otherwise, the Gallery Wall can appear restless and random. It looks harmonious when the picture frames find a common end at one point, i.e. end at the same height. If you like it neat, you can attach several pictures of the same size symmetrically. Before mounting, you should have an idea of ​​what the wall should look like.

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plan arrangement

In the next step it gets more concrete: Look at the available space on the wall where the Gallery Wall is to be built. Now cut Gift or wrapping paper in this size. You can now arrange your pictures on this in order to better plan the final attachment to the wall, without having to hammer nails into the wall and possibly have to pull them out again later. If you like the arrangement, draw outlines of the pictures (with frames or hangers) on the paper. Then turn the frame over to see where exactly you need to hammer in the nail and mark the spot on the paper as well.

Attach paper and hammer in nails

You can now attach the large piece of paper with the recorded images to the wall where you want the Gallery Wall to hang using adhesive tape or thumbtacks. This procedure ensures that you don’t have to work directly on the wall, hammer in nails and reposition them. If the paper is hanging, you can look at it again from a distance and recognize distances and placement better and, if necessary, change outlines and draw new ones.

In the end, the paper should be hanging straight on the wall (this is best done with a spirit level). If you are happy with the arrangement, you can nails through the paper hammer in the marked places. Then you can simply tear off the paper.

hang picture wall

Now all you have to do is hang the frames or pictures in their place using an alternative method of hanging and, if necessary, use a spirit level to straighten them. Then the Gallery Wall is ready and provides a great eye-catcher in the bedroom, living room, children’s room, kitchen or hallway. One can his Picture walls also continue to develop: enlarge them or exchange motifs. This makes the wall decoration dynamic and practical.

More tips for a gallery wall

A motto is great for a gallery wall: Lovers of certain cities can, for example, combine impressions of their favorite city and almost feel transported there when they look at their gallery wall. Various plant motifs also look great on a gallery wall and create an urban jungle feeling. Of course, it is particularly individual and personal when you own photos stage in a gallery wall and, if necessary, mix with letter posters or other suitable motifs.

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