USING ART IN ROOMS - Page 3

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

So charming, @ECBG , and well-preserved for being from 1878! Your dining room is a feast for the eyes, with the lovely pieces you have. I appreciate you going to the trouble of shrinking your photos and posting here.

@ninjawife, I love your bold eye for art! You are so lucky to have talented family members, also, providing their art photography for you to choose from. That is so meaningful-- to have works by loved ones, that you can appreciated on your walls every day.

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

@wilma, I had forgotten your science teacher background--that would give you a special appreciation for planets! I love a black-and-white depiction of those luminous orbs in space too...

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

@Oznell wrote:
This Channel Island house by Giannetti Home makes such good use of the unframed, soothing sea scapes to reinforce the soft coastal feeling of the room!
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I love this!

manny2 · ‎05-24-2010

Number 2 is very simple, and attractive. Reminds me of the southwest for some reason.

Number 3 doesn't jive to me. The planet just doesn't fit.

Number 6 would drive me crazy. It's way too busy.

Number 7 I love abstract, and I love the painting, but it's lost on that wall.

Number 8 the coastal is pretty. The paintings are somewhat muted by design. I prefer that look. Not a fan of the overall room.

Number 9 the balance and scale are off.

Just my opinion.....

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

My favorite *art* piece is an Asian scene done using delicate strings that tells the *story*.

It's a fisherman on a junk boat passing by huts along the water.

Reminds me of what we saw taking a tour on the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok.

The water is placid and the strings are blue and green and white and go horizontally across. The huts are white with brown thatch roofs and are done in a golden brown vertically.

A tree overhangs one of the huts and the leaves are done with circularly curled strings. Hard to describe.

I bought it at an art boutique in Laguna Beach about 10 years ago. I have it in our bedroom because it's a little too exquisite for my rather informal living room.

In my living room I have an original painting from a local painter of a wave. It isn't a scary wave, though!

In my reading nook, I have a huge print of colorful flowers done by Mercedes Lagunas called Golden Flowers (I think). She's done artwork for Hallmark and a few magazines.

In my hallway, I have a framed print by (Ugh I can't remember his name!), but it's a quirky picture of a woman holding a bird on her lap. The woman is smoking a pipe and has a crazy Carmen Miranda kinda hat on.

FiddleDeeDee · ‎03-06-2020

@Oznell I believe that art is something that when you look at it, not only does a smile appear on your face, but your heart smiles as well because it touches you that deeply. I know there are those who collect art to collect art but that never appealed to me.

All the art in our house is a product of our children. Be it photographs, sketches, paintings....doesn't matter. Some are huge, some are small but they have all be professionally mounted/framed and hang around our home......and we LOVE it. Each piece has a story and each of our sons can tell us the "why" behind their creation.

IMHO, any piece of art that touches your soul will work no matter where you place it.

*Four Seasons once again*

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Whoa, @Lucky Charm , your art tastes are as interestingly eclectic as I would expect them to be! That Asian piece with strings is intriguing-- I tend to be drawn to a lot of "mixed-media" items, collage, etc. so love the idea of that, and the intricacy that went into it.

@FiddleDeeDee, nothing so beautiful as framed pieces of meaning, done by your loved ones. How gratified your sons must be to see you honoring them with carefully framed examples of their work!

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@Oznell wrote:
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Ah, this lady above has all her pretty gilt-framed art working for her in her pleasant alcove. But she herself is part of a painting-- "An Evening at Home", by Edward John Poynter, done in 1888. So he's responsible for her nice little gallery wall.

I always notice when someone has art that complements their rooms in some way, no matter if the style is traditional or ultra modern, or a mix. It's ideal if you start off with your art, and then can build a room around that, but most of us don't have the luxury of that-- we get things in piecemeal fashion, art here, furniture there, and make it work together...

Love the way the vaguely exotic landscape here ties in with the "global" spirit of this room...

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This cool, black-and-white art photo of a planet, is a little unexpected in a wood-walled den. Fun.

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Here below, an English design team's deliberate mixing of periods, right down to the art. She puts the ornately framed, more traditional portrait, right above the little cubist still life. Her eclecticism continues, with the spool chair being paired with a modern mirror side table. And her combo of primary colors-- yellow, blue, red-- adds to the vibrancy.

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Do you put art in your shelves? I like the way Studio McGee mixes little oil paintings and prints with books and other artifacts. Little treasures to discover...

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I usually prefer big, oversize paintings, but curated 'art walls' are a good way of massing together your smaller finds. Young Canadian designer Joel Bray did one on a concrete wall in a loft-like apartment. Side note-- see the gilt framed print , top second from right, of a young lady clutching a small testament-- I have that too! Called "The Soul's Awakening" A very old one, crumbling a bit, that I found in an antique store:
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(Another digression-- I like the Canadian touch of the Hudson's Bay blanket thrown over the couch...)

Here, the thing I like is that the abstract art is such a contrast to what looks like a burl wood wall. Like the way they play off each other.
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This Channel Island house by Giannetti Home makes such good use of the unframed, soothing sea scapes to reinforce the soft coastal feeling of the room!
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A cluster of antique prints enriches and brings warmth to a modern apartment space.
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Steven Gambrel has an ingenious way with art. Below, his unusual placement of the mantel paintings just reinforces the originality of the room-- the room has depth, and even a little mystery...

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Here's a casual, rustic dining area, with a beautiful, dreamy landscape above the mantel. Love the casual touch of the wood cutting boards and mortar and pestle, mixing with that painting! After all, it is an eating space.

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I've asked this before, in different ways, but:

Do you have a favorite piece of art in your house, that you appreciate more than any other? Please describe. Have you ever pulled the colors from a piece of art, and then used them in decorating a room?

@Oznell

I have a large reproduction of "September Morn" because it has meaning to me. It is over my bed and I don't invite my pastor to see my bedroom. I also have a large piece of artwork (reproduction) over my sofa that is reminiscent of my family's beginnings in America. It is from Richmond. Probably not popular in today's culture but one of my great great grandfathers was a US President and it is a picture of the home where he and my great great grandmother resided. In my long hallway, I have a gallery. In my short hallway I have a small gallery of butterfly pictures that a friend did for me and framed them. I especially love it because it was a gift from a dear friend.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@Oznell wrote:
Ditto, @AuntG -- there's something about the simplicity of those canvases, hung together in that breezy coastal setting, that just sings to me.

But the question was, what is your own favorite piece of art, @Sooner ?   I know you have some cherished pieces.

Long-winded, never, @spiderw !   Anyone responding with such rich detail and thought so enhances the discussion. Love pre-Raphaelite also. You're lucky to have pieces too, that also have such important family and sentimental meaning.

It's my pleasure, @Lilysmom1 .   You've obtained locally painted seascapes of your beautiful Nova Scotia coast for your home-- how appropriate and fabulous!

Thanks, @RNbynite . I completely agree, that even if the "style" isn't what ours would be, if you see some arrangement that works well-- within its given style-- it's cohesive and pleasing within its scheme. Your choices are not what I would call pedestrian, by the way-- they're time-tested and beautiful!

@Oznell

My favorite pieces of art are from my sons: One has done a bouquet of flowers for me that hangs above my desk, another has done a coffeepot and a cup which is entitled "Breathe" and my very favorite is a rendering of a mausoleum from the above-ground cemetery in "sunken" NOLA. Another has done a large piece of sheet music that he has written and made me a nice copy on parchment. The very last but not least is from my daughter who is a fashion designer and has some of her sketches from a book reprinted and framed for me. All four are artsy in some way (she actually has a degree in interior design, a college degree from the school of architecture) but she enjoyed fashion design more.