Guides
The measuring, before the buying.
Art is an emotional purchase and a set of very unromantic measurements. These pages handle the measurements — sizes, heights, spacing, and which colours sit together — so the choosing can be the enjoyable part.
What size art above a sofa
The two-thirds calculation, a sizing table for every common piece of furniture, and what a frame and mat add to it.
Gallery wall layouts
Six arrangements that reliably work — row, pair, grid, salon, ledge, staircase — each with the measurements to set it out.
Art colours by sofa
Grey, beige, navy, green, leather and patterned — what sits well above each, and the better question to ask instead.
Sets of three
Why three is the default above a sofa, and the constraint that separates a set from three prints in a row.
How high to hang it
145 cm to the centre, where the number comes from, and the rooms where it is wrong.
Print sizes explained
A-series, metric and US inch sizes converted — and the near-misses that stop a print fitting an off-the-shelf frame.
Hanging art without drilling
What adhesive strips really hold, the four mistakes behind every failure, and what to do when the frame is simply too heavy.
Art around a television
Why hanging above the screen usually fails, what to do instead, and the glare problem that settles the material question.
Framed or unframed
What framing actually costs, when custom framing earns its money, and the postage problem behind why prints arrive unframed.
Art in a hallway
A metre away instead of three, which inverts every sizing rule — and makes small, detailed work the right answer.
Now find the colours
Photograph the room, and the matcher reads the palette out of it — then shows you which prints sit in those colours, and what they look like on paper rather than on a screen.