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Where should I hang the picture?

I have a print that I want to hang in my MB.  However, I have a question of where to hang it. 

 

This is the layout:

 

nightstand            bed    window

 

The bed, in fact, extends into the window a bit.  So, do I center the picture over the bed or hang it in the center of the wall (between the corner and the beginning of the window)?

 

TIA for your opinions.

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

How large is the picture?

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

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Can you upload a photo of the room and the picture?

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

Large picture - center over the bed - small picture - put on the wall next to the window.

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

How big is the picture?

 

Can you move the bed or does it have to stay there?

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

When I struggle with a picture, I end up making a grouping.   

Then I don't have to worry about it.

 

 

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

If there is nothing else on that wall, I'd go with centered over the bed.

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

The wall above a bed always looks better when there is symmetry of objects placed on it as well as centering those objects on the wall above the bed.

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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

If the bed headboard has no natural middle, I'd center between the end of the bed and the window frame.  If the bed headboard has a middle, I'd center the picture with the middle.

 

By "middle", I mean, is the headboard consistently the same design/size right to left, or does it have a design or size difference in the middle (such a a Queen Ann headboard might).,


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Re: Where should I hang the picture?

The print is 24 1/2" wide by 29" long and 2 1/2" deep (frame dimensions).

 

I think I may have to center it from the corner to the window.  The bed frame does have a definite center, but if I hang it center of picture to center of bed, then the picture would only have an inch or two margin before the frame of the window.

 

I do like the idea of a grouping if I could find prints to go with the larger print.  The matting on the print is blue-grey on the outside with an inner mat of mauve and the picture is of a white vase with tulips (white and pink with blue-grey shading).

 

Now I have a new mission----finding the smaller prints.

 

Thanks for all your help.

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