Building a gallery wall from a print set

A gallery wall assembled from a single print pack is easier than it looks, provided you resist the urge to line everything up.

Mixed sizes beat a grid

A grid of identical frames reads as a filing system. Our print sets ship in three sizes — typically 8 × 10, 5 × 7 and 4 × 6 inches — precisely so the arrangement has some rhythm. Large pieces anchor, small ones fill.

Plan it on the floor

Lay the prints out on the floor in the same proportion as the wall. Shuffle until the visual weight is spread: avoid all the dark prints on one side, and try not to line up three straight edges in a row.

Photograph the layout on your phone before you move anything. You will need it, and you will not remember the arrangement.

Spacing

Two to three inches between pieces is the usual working gap for small prints. Keep it consistent — the eye forgives an odd arrangement far more easily than an inconsistent gap. Treat the whole cluster as one rectangle and centre that rectangle on the furniture below.

Start from the middle

Hang the largest, most central piece first and work outward. If you start at a corner, every small error accumulates toward the other side of the wall.

Frames, later

Our print sets are unframed. Standard 8 × 10, 5 × 7 and 4 × 6 inch frames are widely available in India, and a mix of black and natural wood usually looks better than twelve of the same. There is no need to frame them all at once; a wall that grows over a few months is not a problem.