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Italy Inside with Framed Prints, Decorating with Prints
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(I've seen these prints on the Bree's walls on the TV show Desperate Housewives. And they look perfect, of course.)
(Room images from Drexel Heritage and Century Furniture sites.) |
Framed prints of Italy-related images are an inexpensive and relatively simple way of bringing Italy inside your home. While large posters can make a home look like a dorm-room, small prints framed in groups look chic.
They look best grouped tightly in identical or similar frames. They can be all of the same size, or varied. The key is to have it in what designers call 'balance'. They are talking about the 'visual weight' of objects, not necessarily requiring identical symmetry.
The groupings should look well-positioned on the wall, in relation to the wall space and in relation to the furniture groupings in the room. Eye-level is best for the central point of the arrangement.
I provide below examples of images from AllPosters.com, one of the biggest mail-order poster sites on the Internet (the other is Art.com). They ship world-wide, and offer a framing service too. Check out these galleries of prints, from AllPosters.com and Art.com, for Italophiles: But you should look through your own photographs of Italy, if you have any, and consider enlarging some and framing them. It's a much more personal decor. And if you're in Italy, take images with enlarging and framing in mind.
Just one last tip regarding matt color. Putting a matt, a colored cardboard frame around your print sets off the print well within the frame. To set it off even better, select a minor color from within the print itself, as your matte color. To see the effect that has, you can experiment with the AllPosters.com framing program, even changing the wall color to match your own, so you can simulate how the framed print might look in your home. |
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(search for 'Lemons' for these prints on AllPosters.com) |
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(search for 'Olives' for these prints at AllPosters.com) |
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(search for 'Tuscan Fruit' for these prints on AllPosters.com) |
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(search for 'Villa garden' for these prints on AllPosters.com) |
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(search 'Topiary' for these prints on AllPosters.com) |
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(search for 'Rome architecture' for these prints on AllPosters.com) |
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(search for 'Pasta' for these prints on AllPosters.com) |
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(search for 'Sunflowers' for these prints on AllPosters.com) |
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