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Something To Talk About in the Loo

March 7, 2012 By Kristie Barnett 11 Comments

This modern little powder room was previously a vicious red – my client thinks it was called “Satan Red.” I haven’t been able to find a paint named that, but she swears that’s what it was named when it was painted a decade ago! Well, now it’s painted a much friendlier Sherwin Williams’ Tupelo Tree.

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A powder room can be a great place to showcase an interesting grouping of art. This client has lots of really cool modern pieces like the ones we hung on this wall.

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Modern Art in the Loo

What do you think about art groupings in a bathroom?

Filed Under: Color Consultation Tagged With: art grouping, bathroom, color consultation, decorologist, green, loo, modern art, paint, powder room, sherwin williams, tupelo tree

What To Hang Over Oddly-Shaped Furniture

March 2, 2012 By Kristie Barnett 13 Comments

Have you ever had this problem? You have a piece of furniture or headboard or something in your home that needs “something” over it, but you have no idea what to hang on the wall above it?

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Beautiful View from the Front of My Client’s Home

This was the dilemma in my client’s home. Here is the dining room in it’s “before” state – it has lovely tall ceilings and a beautiful hutch to the right. The space above it looks a bit bare, but what to hang there????

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Dining Room Before The Decorologist

Following the lines of the furniture always works for me. Creating a vignette with much-loved china on the wall that mimics the lines of the furniture made for an interesting and unique solution for this design dilemma. Oh, and we changed the wall color so that the wood tones would have a richer backdrop (if you have lots of wood in one room, most of the time yellow is not the best choice to paint your walls).

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Dining Room After

Here’s another shot to show better show you the effect the plate grouping makes with this beautiful hutch.

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Blue and White Plate Grouping

Unusually-shaped furniture often call for unique accessorizing solutions. Have you ever had to accessorize around an oddly-shaped piece of furniture?

Filed Under: Design Intervention Tagged With: arch, art grouping, decorologist, designer dining room, green dining room, grouping, hanging art, hutch, plate grouping, wall art, wood

How to Hang Plates & Art Groupings

November 16, 2011 By Kristie Barnett 13 Comments

As an interior decorator in the Nashville area, one of my favorite things that I get to do for clients is to create art groupings on their walls. They are usually amazed at how quickly I can come up with an arrangement and get them up on the wall. Here’s how I do it: first, I gather up like items with the colors I’m looking for to tie in with the room and start playing around with different arrangements.

I layed out these gorgeous plates on my client’s bed this week, working until we got an arrangement we both liked. This is what I came up with – it’s kind of like an inverted Christmas tree shape over her dresser: [Read more...]

Filed Under: Decor Addiction, Design Intervention Tagged With: art grouping, decorating, decorator, decorologist, grouping, hanging, hanging art, hanging dishes, how to hang art, how to hang family photos, interior decorator, nashville, plate, plate grouping

Walking Up Your Stairs Should Be a Happy Experience

February 16, 2011 By Kristie Barnett 6 Comments

Tomorrow afternoon I’m going to be arranging some family photographs in an open stairwell of a client’s home. That’s got me thinking about different ways to hang art on a staircase wall.

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Art Groupings: How Much is TOO Much?

December 13, 2010 By Kristie Barnett 23 Comments

The last time you saw my dining room walls, I had created a salon-style art grouping of landscapes on the long wall opposite my windows.

Do Your Walls Make You Happy?

July 26, 2010 By Kristie Barnett 6 Comments

Well, do they? I think the things you hang on your wall should make you happy. They should reflect your interests and your tastes. They should put a smile on your face when you walk in the room.

Hanging Art Salon Style

September 7, 2009 By Kristie Barnett 9 Comments

It’s really hot to hang art groupings salon-style on a wall. It takes a lot of confidence to start nailing up art in a seemingly hodge-podge kind of way, and you may feel held back by a lack of cohesive art to choose from (or so you think). But really, you need very little to unite an odd grouping of art. Just the idea to do it and the decision to hang 5+ pieces close together make a girl seem really arty and bold.

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The Secrets of Hanging Art

August 10, 2009 By Kristie Barnett 3 Comments

Here they are. All the secrets to hanging your artwork so that you will not be mocked for hanging it poorly:

Match frame shape to wall shape. Hang a vertical piece of art when you have a vertical sliver of wall. Hang a horizontal piece of art or a horizontal grouping on a wall that is a horizontal rectangle.