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Single statement
One large piece sized to about two-thirds of the furniture below and centred at eye level — the calmest wall, and the hardest one to get wrong.
Wall prints
Nearly always hung
too small, and too high.
Art in Indian homes tends to hover near the ceiling in a frame two sizes down. Both are proportion errors, and both are free to fix. We size the print to the wall and set it at eye level — the two changes that make a room look considered.
ProportionFour numbers,
Four numbers,
every wall.
Almost every mistake with prints is a size mistake. A print two-thirds the width of the furniture below it, centred at 1450mm, hung 150–250mm above the sofa back, with consistent 50–75mm gaps in a group — get those right and cheap prints look expensive.
66%
Print width vs the furniture below
1,450mm
Centre height — gallery standard
200mm
Gap above the sofa back
Sized to the wall,
not to the frame shop.
How we plan a wallSix rules that stop it
Six rules that stop it
looking like a mistake.
Almost every print wall that looks off is a proportion or placement error, not a taste one — and all of them are free to avoid. These six rules keep a wall of ordinary prints looking deliberate.
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Two-thirds rule
Behind the frameThe half of hanging
The half of hanging
that's just physics.
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Wall fixings
Matched to what's behind
Solid masonry, a hollow block or a plasterboard partition each need a different anchor. Into the wrong one, a heavy frame pulls out and takes a chunk of wall with it.
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Load rating
Anchors well over the weight
Framed glass is heavier than it looks. We fix well above the piece's weight rather than to a nail's rough guess, so nothing creeps loose over the years.
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Glazing
Non-reflective where light hits
A glossy pane opposite a window becomes a mirror by day. On bright walls we choose anti-reflective glass or acrylic so you see the art, not the room.
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Lighting angle
Lit to miss the glass
A downlight straight ahead bounces glare off the frame. We aim the light to graze the surface so the print reads without a hotspot across it.
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Backing
Sealed against the damp wall
An external or ground-floor wall pushes moisture into the mount and spots the print. A sealed backing and a slim air gap keep the paper dry behind the frame.
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Hanging system
Two points, adjustable
Two D-rings or a rail rather than one hook means a piece hangs level and stays there. It also shifts a few millimetres without a fresh set of holes.
Three ways to hangOne piece, a grid,
One piece, a grid,
or a set.
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Salon grid
A dense cluster of frames read as one shape, the gaps kept equal — busy on purpose, and the best home for a collection gathered over years.
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Framed set
Two or three matched pieces in a tidy pair or row, spaced to relate to each other and the sofa — order without the fuss of a full grid.
In motion
The wall you look at
from the sofa.
A print wall isn't decoration you add at the end — it's the thing the eye lands on when you sit down. Scaled and placed right, it does more for a room than another piece of furniture ever would.
ScaleWhen in doubt,
When in doubt,
go bigger.
A print that's slightly too large looks confident; one that's slightly too small looks like a mistake. The instinct to play it safe with a modest frame is exactly what leaves a wall looking underfurnished.
- Print about two-thirds the width of the furniture
- One large piece beats three timid ones
- Grids and pairs read as a single object — size them as one
- Leave breathing room, but don't shrink the art to get it
HeightBring it down
Bring it down
to eye level.
The single most common error in Indian homes is hanging six inches too high — art drifting up toward the ceiling, disconnected from the furniture. Set the centre at 1450mm and everything below it suddenly belongs together.
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Centre at 1450mm — gallery standard, standing eye level
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150–250mm above the sofa back, not floating over it
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The art relates to the furniture, not the ceiling line
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Free to fix — it's a nail and twenty minutes
Got prints stacked against a wall?
Send us the wall and what you'd like on it — we'll come back with a layout, the sizes to order, and where each piece lands.
Gallery
Built, photographed, handed over
Salon wall · Koramangala
The single · Indiranagar
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We'd hung everything six inches too high for nine years.
Swati & Gaurav — 4 BHK, Hebbal
Questions
Asked often
Centre at 1450mm from the floor — gallery standard, set at standing eye level. Above a sofa, 150–250mm above the back. Almost every home hangs higher than this and it always reads as floating.
About two-thirds the width of the furniture under it. When in doubt, go bigger — a print that's slightly too large looks confident; one that's slightly too small looks like a mistake.
Yes, and it's usually the best wall in the house. Things people actually collected beat anything bought to match a sofa.
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