Guides
The measuring, before the buying.
Art is an emotional purchase and a set of very unromantic measurements. These pages handle the measurements — sizes, heights, spacing, and which colours sit together — so the choosing can be the enjoyable part.
What size art above a sofa
The two-thirds calculation, a sizing table for every common piece of furniture, and what a frame and mat add to it.
Gallery wall layouts
Six arrangements that reliably work — row, pair, grid, salon, ledge, staircase — each with the measurements to set it out.
Art colours by sofa
Grey, beige, navy, green, leather and patterned — what sits well above each, and the better question to ask instead.
Sets of three
Why three is the default above a sofa, and the constraint that separates a set from three prints in a row.
How high to hang it
145 cm to the centre, where the number comes from, and the rooms where it is wrong.
Print sizes explained
A-series, metric and US inch sizes converted — and the near-misses that stop a print fitting an off-the-shelf frame.
Now find the colours
Photograph the room, and the matcher reads the palette out of it — then shows you which prints sit in those colours, and what they look like on paper rather than on a screen.