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Should I center artwork with the wall or with furniture?
We have two walls in our apartment where the furniture against the wall is not centered, but to one side. One example is our kitchen table--the area that it is in is not a perfect square, so we have it centered in the area, but the table is not centered with the wall behind the kitchen table, where we want to hang a picture with a few shelves on either side. Should be center the wall hangings with the table or with the wall? I'm terrible at interior design.
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- I would center it with the furniture because peoples eyes are going to be pulled toward the furniture and pictures rather than the walls themselves. Good Luck!
- If you center the wall art with your wall your sitting area will look awkward. I would center it with your furniture. Essentially all furntiture, even in an open space, can be arranged to create visual "rooms." By centering the artwork with the furniture, think of it as putting the artwork in that "room." http://www.houseplansandmore.com/resource_center/picture_perfect.aspx If you look at the second picture down, with the white couch, the artwork is centered above the couch. Hope this helps! Happy decorating!
- Definitely with the furniture. I like to create areas and made sure that each specific area is balanced within itself. Don't worry about the blank walls that are leftover. Like a piece of artwork, there eyes need a place to rest! Fake trees (or real) do wonders for helping to define space and fill up wall space too.
- Center your artwork with the furniture and it will look just fine. It would look unbalanced just using the wall. You want to bring attention to the table and not the the fact that the table is not centered to the wall. Art work is a good way to do just that.
- Center it with the furniture. People will notice in not aligned with the furniture but not if it is. They won't even notice the wall.
- Without seeing it, it's hard to say. There are really no written in stone rules, you just have to go with what is pleasing to the eye and the size of art work, etc. Personally, if I was using shelves and art, I'd center them on the wall, not with the table. Art alone get trickier. I would say that above a sofa, you want it centered with the sofa, be it one or a group of art.
