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[Oznell]

I sympathize with that feeling of finding "art groupings" sometimes too much, @shoptilyadropagain .   Generally one massive piece is my preference too.   I have some small pieces that would work well together, but they're perpetually stacked, unhung, in a corner, because I'm leery of visual over-stimulation...

@Sooner,  I knew you had some great items!   But I understand the temptation and quiet "soothingness" of bare expanses of wall.  (See response to @shoptilyadropagain ).   I'm with you on window treatments, I like the least treatment consistent with having some semblance of privacy...

I can well imagine, @Marsha2003 --  original oils are my favorite also, along with watercolors, but I have almost none.   Just a tiny "mountain scape" that I never tire of gazing at.  To me, oils give such "soul" to a room.

[stevieb]

I like the painting that started things off and the vignette featured in number 5, but otherwise, neither the rooms nor most of the featured art does much for me.

[Sooner]

@Oznell Plantation shutters are a wonderful invention!  I love everything about them!  LOL!!!

[vsm]

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@stevieb wrote:

I like the painting that started things off and the vignette featured in number 5, but otherwise, neither the rooms nor most of the featured art does much for me.

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To your two choices, @stevieb , I'd add a third: no. 11. Everything else leaves me cold.

[stevieb]

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@vsm wrote:

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@stevieb wrote:

I like the painting that started things off and the vignette featured in number 5, but otherwise, neither the rooms nor most of the featured art does much for me.

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To your two choices, @stevieb , I'd add a third: no. 11. Everything else leaves me cold.

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@vsm  Yep, and 2 might be appealing as well in a different room.

[ECBG]

@Oznell 

Thank you for the wonderful "walk".  Looking for me is such a treat!

I have several prints here that carry the theme.  I also collect drawings of quilts.  

Dealing with the colors of our "season", although, every room is different, the art can be moved.

Our country kitchen

This one from Ethan Allen was in the Dinning Room until I found the mountain that spoke to me.

The Dinning Room.  The Strawberry Girl was bought in 1975 and is an antique oil painting.

Great Room

I didn't do upstairs.

[Oznell]

Fabulous, thank you for sharing with us part of your wonderful, diverse collection, @ECBG .   Everything you've ever shown from your house shows such a sense of warmth that you've cultivated there.  Also a sweet poignance too.

[wilma]

I prefer larger pieces of art instead of groupings of smaller pieces. I like the focus to be on just one piece of art on each wall or space. My favorites are #2, 3, 8, and 11. 

I like the neutral room in #2 with the landscape. Very harmonious to my eye. As a retired science teacher I love the planet art in #3 which is appropriate for that kind of room. I like the seascapes in #8, but I'd prefer they be on different walls. Number #11 looks very nice in that space. 

[ECBG]

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@Oznell wrote:

Fabulous, thank you for sharing with us part of your wonderful, diverse collection, @ECBG .   Everything you've ever shown from your house shows such a sense of warmth that you've cultivated there.  Also a sweet poignance too.

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@Oznell 

Many thanks.  I had to shrink each one to get it on here.

This antique got left off.  It is a Dinning Room piece.

Saturday evening, December 28, 1878.  Original.

[ninjawife]

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@Oznell wrote:

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?

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I have lots of favorite pieces but my most favorite is a print of Picasso's Guernica that I purchased at Ikea in the late 1990s.  It is a very large piece and it hangs above my fireplace.  

I also like the bullfight poster I brought home from Spain when I was there on a high school trip.  I had it matted and framed.  I love its color story.

My husband  and oldest DD dabble in photography so I have lots of their still life and landscape photos that they have taken over the years.  Some have been printed on canvas.  

Edited to add:  I don't usually pull colors from the art to decorate but i would say that the art compliments the style and tone of the room.