Inspiring Gallery Walls & Inexpensive Prints You’ll Love Now

As a child of the 60s and 70s, I grew up with gallery walls, and my mom did a beautiful job arranging art and decor for them. Both of my sisters also inherited the skill to curate and balance such assemblages. Me? I have never found them easy to arrange or live with! Even when I have carefully laid out a plan on the floor first or used mathematical calculations, they always seem off kilter. Add to that my tendency to grow bored quickly with patterns and stimulation on the walls and…well, my friends aren’t calling to ask me to create them. Thank goodness there are creatives who prove with their inspiring gallery walls it is indeed possible to whimsically and charmingly display our treasures. I’ll also share inexpensive prints which would make beautiful additions to your walls!

Inspiring Gallery Walls

Gallery Walls for Instant Architectural Interest

Jackye Lanham’s Kiawah Island living room has a beautiful fireplace with framed art hung on either side (the right side is below). Should you not have the space or desire for built-ins flanking a fireplace, consider adding architecture with art.

Believe it or not, the room above is in a new build that only looks like an old carriage house!

Gathering a Peaceful Collection

Sometimes a very tidy gallery wall is the look you’re after. In a stairway, all of the frames for the botanical prints are identical. You can still find affordable amazing vintage or antique books with botanical, bird, butterfly, and landscape prints that are frame-worthy for your gallery wall.

Looking for a pretty warm beige paint color? It is Farrow & Ball’s Shaded White in the above space.

The thirty black frames in this installation below contrast with the pale wall, yet the composition stays very serene and modern.

I love the reflection of the art in the gorgeous black marble table!

Bohemian Freespirit Galleries

In my friend Jenny’s former art studio, a bright yellow wall is an explosion of happy color. Not all gallery walls must be carefully planned out mathematically or Martha style.

This reminds me of a gallery wall I created years ago with a zillion unframed favorite family photos and washi tape. It was such a conversational moment for everyone who passed by that wall!

Understated Calm Walls of Art

One of my favorite bedrooms of all time! This small Stockholm apartment is so understated and serene yet big on style! Gallery walls can work even if you love minimal style.

How about that painted baseboard detail?

Black Background for a Gallery Wall

Sherry Hart is a favorite interior designer who knows her way around neutral color palettes. The gallery walls she creates on deep dark walls are always epic. Consider adding drama with a gallery black wall.

We love that she shares the paint colors for many of her projects!

Have a powder room that needs some personality and interest?

I love this idea for guests to enjoy!

Boring Hall to Art Gallery

Get ready to sigh! Floating shelves can be perfect for a rotating collection of art!

Summer Thornton designed the unforgettable interiors in this home, and you can find more inspiration from her work HERE.

Collected Silhouettes

Enjoy the hunt for art and pieces to display. This next gallery wall moment from Nora Murphy’s book pulls at my heartstrings. The Swedish immigrant family who cared for me and my siblings in childhood had framed silhouettes and art in the stairway of their Dutch Colonial home.

I’m reminded that the way we decorate a wall is not a small thing. We are creating backdrops for memories whether we are conscious of it or not.

Mixing Media on the Wall

This gallery wall at Patina Farm by Brooke and Steve Giannetti takes my breath away. Mix framed pieces with other art on the wall.

There’s something quite modern about how the contemporary paintings mix with the traditional plaster sculpture.

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Inexpensive Yet Lovely Vintage Prints to Frame

Ready to discover some lovely options for gallery wall art?

Are you surprised that these gorgeous prints can be snagged easily and affordably?

Since they are digital downloads, it is affordable to collect a whole wall full.

But what I love most is the curation from this amazing seller, Maple and Oak Vintage.

So many sophisticated and beautiful options!

If you have a moment and care to read my very personal reflections shared in a pre-holiday post, please do give that story some love HERE.

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Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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