How to arrange your paintings, photos, sculptures, ceramic decorations and so on? This is a very common question and frequently met problem. Especially if you have a lot of them and love them all alike. First, let’s take a look at the methods of placement: we have hanging, propping or simply placing.

1. Hanging is suitable for paintings, framed photographs or floral decorations. It has the advantage of occupying non usable surface, like a shelf or a portion of your floor. It is the preferred method if you have a lot of free space on the wall and have no furniture or shelves to cover up. An empty wall is boring and lifeless, it gives the room a sad, lonely feeling. And if you don’t like messing around with home-made decorations and don’t have any paintings either, frame a few of your favorite photos and make yourself a photo wall.

2. Propping is the best way to fill up your cabinet, shelves or night stands. I don’t suggest paintings, but photos, little carved woods, icons and so on, are welcome in these places. Maybe you want to wake up an the first thing you want to see is a picture of your family, to brighten up the morning. Or you like to see a photo of your lover in front of the mirror while you do your make-up for the date. And the best thing is, if you change your mind or get bored, you can move them around or replace them, unlike with hanged decorations, where you have fixed positions.

Placing objects on the ground is not a recommended method, unless your decorative objects are larger in size, like a sculpture, a vase or an antique clock, for example. These are more pieces of furniture, decorative furniture, and can’t be hanged or propped. I personally discourage these objects, especially if you have a smaller home, because they take up a lot of space. Not their surface alone, but you also need a clear viewing space in front of or around them, which can be many times larger than the object itself.

So choose your decorations wisely and make sure they are looked at, otherwise they are not worth buying.

I’ve talked a lot about wallpapers as a means of decorating a room. I have also mentioned wallies to bring some accents to the room. Now, I came across a brilliant idea for decorating a room, without too much effort, money and need of talent: drawings. Surely, if you’re a parent, you’ve had problems with your child, trying out a pen or a pencil or even a marker on the walls. He had a very good idea but you didn’t fructify it. What I came upon on the internet is the idea of writing quotes on the wall. Whether it’s famous people, a specific topic or your random funny sayings, it’s your choice. But it’s not necessarily writing you can do. If you feel up to the task, try drawing something, a character, an object, or simply draw different geometrical patterns in corners, at edges, around doors and windows. Let your imagination run free, just be sure to think it through several times before you begin. Make a sketch, imagine how it will look and try to do a clean, mistakes-free job. Have fun!

Don’t look too deep, you’ll get hypnotized. Just kidding. No, they are not bubbles painted on the wall, they are actually mirrors attached to a metallic skeleton meant to be hanged on the wall to amaze your guests. They look splashing in a modern home, and with the proper lighting, you can get the most amazing effects out of them. Disco balls are old school. This is modern, this is lunatic. And it’s not that expensive either. Depends how much you have to spare, as always.