Decorating Your Home with Portraits
You love your images, but just how do you display them in your home?
What Size?
The size rule for wall portraits is that you should be able to see the faces from anywhere in the room. This usually means the portrait should be six inches for every foot away that you will be viewing the portrait. For instance, if your room is 10 feet and wish to view the faces from that distance, you will want a wall portrait that is 60 inches. The math is simple, just multiply the viewing distance by 6 (in this case, it was 10 feet multiplied by 6 inches = 60 inches). This rule is the same for sizing a TV. You would usually watch a 60 inch TV from about 10 feet away.
You want the wall portrait to dominate the space available on your wall, but you don't want the wall to appear crowed. When guessing print sizes, most people tend to size their prints too small for a space. Normally, a 16x20 print fits best in hallways.
Wall Clusters and Splits
Rather than using a single large print in a wall space, a great idea is to use a cluster of prints (individual images from the shoot in a grouping) or even a split (a single image mosaic spread across multiple prints). This is a dramatic way to impress guests to your home or office, while getting to show off multiple prints rather than just a single image. Our Wall Clusters and Splits are produced as ThinWraps, a special new product offering by Ron Brewer Images. For more information and rates on these special prints, click HERE.
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