When it comes to choosing artwork for your home, the content is often the focus of people’s attention. However, the context that a canvas art print is placed in can do as much to accentuate the content, as the picture itself. It’s sort of like breaking the head off Michelangelo’s David and kicking dirt over it … the effect just isn’t the same! Today we are looking at guidelines for placing your canvas art prints within your home, for best interior design effect.
Height
The general strategy for hanging art prints is to place them at eye level, to allow viewers to best engage with them. As you might know, though, rules are made to be broken! If it will not be obscured by furniture, there is no reason that you couldn’t place your artwork closer to floor level. If you want to attract attention to an architectural feature like a high or decorative ceiling, place it a little higher than eye level.

The content can also be a good guide to height – landscape art prints featuring sky shots work naturally well placed higher than those where the foreground is mostly earth.

Placing single canvas prints

Depending on the size of your canvas print, it may or may not constitute the focal point of the room. If you have a large fireplace, a huge couch, or even big bay windows with a striking view, your landscape art print will probably be a secondary design element within the room. Some general guidelines for placement include:

* Place the print opposite the room’s focal point for balance
* Use the canvas print to create a pattern of focal points in the room – set it out to create a visual triangle or square along with other design elements that draw the eye.
* You can align the canvas print with your focal point (depending on what, exactly, that is) to prop it up and strengthen the focus.

Placing three-part canvas prints

Three-part canvas prints are almost always the focal point of a room. If you have another strong focal point, consider moving your three-part canvas print somewhere else in the house. Assuming you have a good spot for your canvas triptych in a relatively ‘quiet’ room, try to:

* Make sure that you allow generous gaps between each part. Give it a little more than you would intuitively, then move back and re-assess.
* Always position a triptych evenly
* Consider making the triptych a part of a mini-gallery for your room

Can I split a canvas print into two?

Certainly! Your canvas printer can do just about anything that you want them to. From an interior design perspective, though, the more relevant question is whether it will look good.Two part canvas art prints tend to create a sense of imbalance in the room. If you are going for a particularly modern, offbeat look in a room, a two-part print may be just what you are searching for. In homes that are more conservative, two part paintings tend to create a sense of the unfinished in the room. If you have a pair of canvas prints you particularly want to hang, try to use them as bookends on either side of an architectural feature like a chimney, a bookshelf or a sofa.