The living room is usually the most tricky room to get right. There are too many things to consider such as making it welcoming, showing your personality, part of your daily life, your furniture etc etc. Also once you have finished furnishing your room, you usually stop at the walls. 

However with online custom frames, that is all manageable and easier than you expect.

Start With the Wall, Not the Frame

Before you click on a single product page, take a moment and stand in your living room and figure out which wall is actually doing the most work. It’s normally the one at the back of the sofa, facing the main door, or the first thing you see when you walk in. That is the wall to prioritize.

Once you have identified it, measure the width of the wall and the width of any furniture sitting in front of it. Art should generally span about two thirds of the furniture width below it. Having that number ready before you shop online custom frames means you are not guessing, and you are not ordering something that ends up looking like a postage stamp on a large wall.

One Strong Frame Beats a Scattered Collection

There is a tendency to overcomplicate living room walls. Multiple small frames in mismatched sizes, some art here, a mirror there, a shelf with things on it. It ends up looking busy without ever feeling intentional.

One large, online-order, custom frame holding an image you love placed prominently in a room will outperform a hodgepodge of frames holding various photos in several ways - it creates a clear focal point and a curated look - and it puts the consumer out of a far greater number of decisions. 

Art to Frames offers frames in a range of sizes, built to exact dimensions and not limited by what fits on a store shelf.

When You Do Want Multiple Frames, Give Them a System

If a single frame is not enough for what you want to display, the key to making multiple frames work in a living room is giving them a unifying element. Same finish across all frames. Same mat color. Same spacing between each piece. One of those three things, applied consistently, is what separates a gallery wall that looks designed from one that just looks like a lot of stuff on a wall.

Online custom frames make this significantly easier because you can order the exact sizes you need all at once rather than hunting through stores hoping to find matching options.

Do Not Forget What Goes Inside the Frame

Remember, it's not just about the frame but what goes inside of it. Your living room is for everyone to see and those things you display will reflect on the type of vibe you want to give off. So whether it be travel photos, family photos, abstract art, flower art whatever it is. Just remember that placeholder photos people put in their living room for convenience, is not going to do the trick. Just put something in there you would want to see on a day to day basis.

Even if you have a photo with a weird format or size, custom framing will allow you to hang it up just how you want it. Otherwise, you would have to crop it down into a standard size and lose some of your photo. 

Your Living Room Is Closer Than You Think

It might seem like a really complex process but all you really need to do is to measure your wall, pick a photo or piece of art to fill it and decide on a finish to complement the room, then order.

Art to Frames makes the online custom frames process straightforward from start to finish. If you want a second opinion before you commit, our team is always happy to help.

Your living room has been waiting long enough. Give those walls something worth looking at.