How to choose a painting for your living room

Paintings are one of the most important elements for decoring your place. And you may wonder why. Well, the paintings can accompany the setting of a home with the landscapes or portraits that most inspire us. Sometimes they can go unnoticed, but if we highlight them they can be the first thing we see when entering a room. For a painting to attract attention we have to emphasize several factors that we will talk about below.

Location in space

An essential factor when choosing pictures for your home is to take into account the place where you are going to place them. We don't just have to think about space. The furniture, the wall and the light are very important elements to take into account. In this way you can shuffle different options and choose the one that best suits your space. On many occasions, the paintings help to enhance certain places in the room that we like and want to highlight. Also, they help to hide areas that we dislike and do not want to influence.

It is clear that the first thing we have to question before putting a painting is the effect we are looking for, the wall to enhance and what we want to highlight from the room. Frame size depending on the size of the wall and ceiling, we can choose one type of painting or another.

If your house has small dimensions, a good option is to put a combination of small squares. This will replace a large painting that takes up much of the wall. However, you will have to take into account the size of the paintings you decide to include. If they are very large, you will have to put less pictures since otherwise it will take up a large part of the wall. If, on the other hand, you have a high ceiling, we can take advantage of it and put a large painting. You can also make a collage of pictures that are high enough to give a feeling of spaciousness to the room.

Which frame to choose

In addition to thinking about the painting of the picture, a factor that will significantly influence the aesthetics that we want to give it will be the frame. Frames are differentiated by the material they are made of, the color and the thickness or size. In addition, all this must be balanced with the paint itself.

• If we want to opt for a more minimalist and simple style, we will put a thin frame and whose colors do not stand out too much. In this way, the painting itself does not lose prominence.

• On the other hand, if we want to enhance the painting a lot, we can put a more ostentatious frame that captures the attention of everyone who passes by.

Paintings for the living room

The living room is a space in the house that allows you to make countless compositions with paintings. Everything will depend on the wall where you want to install them. A wall that gives a lot of play is the back to the sofa. A good option is to place a triptych with all the parts aligned. Although you can also place them playing with different heights and sizes. In this case, separate the longest piece of the triptych from the back of the sofa and keep the same distance between them.

For high ceilings with sofas that are not very large, it is very good to place two or three rows of pictures at the top. Compositions with light sheets and frames are very much in trend.