This blog post is about gallery wall ideas.
One of my favorite ways to decorate an empty wall, is by creating a beautiful gallery wall layout!
It’s one of the easiest ways to make your apartment feel cozy and personal.
If you clicked on this post, I am assuming you already decided on creating a gallery wall in your place, but if you don’t know where to start and how to create a gallery wall layout, this post has everything you need!
In this post, we are going to cover how to create a gallery wall, and get some beautiful gallery wall ideas you can easily put together with beautiful and affordable picture frames sets you can get online to get started.
Let’s get started!
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Gallery Wall Ideas
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How to make a gallery wall look good?
There are 3 things you need to keep in mind when creating a gallery wall:
1. Picture frames – start off by choosing the aesthetic of your wall art, and choose your picture frames design accordingly.
If you are looking for a more modern vibe, you can get same-sized black modern picture frames, or if you want a unique touch you can aim for gold picture frames.
OR, if you are going for a more unique, maximalist look, you can mix and match different styles and colors of picture frames.
2. Gallery wall rule – make sure your picture frames are not too close and not too far from each other. The best thing to do is to aim for 3-6 inches between each picture frame or wall art, and around all sides of the wall art pieces.
3. Gallery wall setup – last thing to keep in mind when creating a gallery wall, is your gallery wall setup and how you want to hang up all the picture frames on your wall. What is the set up of your gallery wall, will you be combining different sized picture frames? or you are going for a clean same-size picture frames wall?
How To Make a Gallery Wall:
1. Choose your gallery wall style & theme
The first step to creating a gallery wall is to plan your gallery wall aesthetic, what type of wall art are you looking for.
For example, it could be a beach themed gallery wall with different wall art and beach images, it could be a gold/elegant gallery wall with more elegant wall art aesthetic, or it could even be preppy and colorful with different shapes/designs/colored picture frames with funky wall art or personal pictures.
Once you’ve chosen your perfect aesthetic, it’ll be easier to piece together frames and photos for your gallery wall!
2. Get artwork and images
Now comes the fun part – collecting wall prints and images!
You can either print your own photos and fun memories you want to display on your gallery wall, or you can shop online (or check out thrift stores) for beautiful art prints that matches your aesthetic (or combine both).
3. Plan the Gallery Wall layout
Next step to creating the perfect gallery wall is to plan your layout!
All you need to do, is to first of all, decide on the wall you want to create the gallery wall on, and try playing with different frame sizes and layouts to achieve the exact look you want.
Decide whether you are looking for a more symmetrical or a more unique layout with different shaped picture frames.
4. Get Your Picture Frames!
Another fun part is buying picture frames that match the sizes of your wall prints and pictures!
There are so many cute picture frame sets linked lower down this post, so make sure to check them out for some ideas.
5. Decide on a Hanging Method
Moving on to choosing your gallery wall hanging method. You can either hang up your photos regularly, or go for a renter-friendly hack like using command strips to hang up your picture frames.
6. Hang Up Your Gallery Wall!
That’s it! Now comes the exciting part of bringing your vision to life, and hanging up your gallery wall! 🙂
You can also decorate your gallery wall with additional small decorative mirrors, add hanging plants, decorative shelves, or even fairy lights.
Living Room Gallery Wall Ideas:
1. Preppy Girly Gallery Wall
Starting off with a more preppy-girly gallery wall aesthetic. I love the bright colored picture frames, the mix between regular, colorful, and unique picture frames!
If you want to add a unique touch to your apartment with colorful picture frames and unique designs, this is a cute idea to recreate.
2. Black & White Gallery Wall
Moving on to a black & white aesthetic gallery wall.
You can either get white picture frames or black picture frames, but the idea is to keep the personal photos in these frame black and white.
This is a perfect personal touch to your living room, and feels unique and artsy with the black and white colored pictures.
3. Mixed Woods Gallery Wall
I LOVE mixing different types of wooden picture frames, and I honestly think this wooden gallery wall is the perfect gallery wall for any living room, because it combines different sized picture frames and colors!
This gallery wall is the ultimate vision of a unique gallery wall.
4. Gold Symmetrical Gallery Wall
A more elegant gallery wall design is this golden picture frames gallery wall that includes unique pictures from special moments in life.
I love the elegant look of this gallery wall, and it’s a beautiful way to add a personal touch to your living room with memorable pictures.
If you have an empty corner in your living room, why not make it a cute gallery wall corner?!
You can get this gallery picture frames set that you can easily hang up on your corner walls like they did in the photo above.
This is a cute way to fill up an empty wall corner, and if you have a unique armchair or even a beautiful artificial/real plant, this can turn out into a cute and cozy corner in your living room.
6. Decorative Shelves Gallery Wall
A unique twist to your regular living gallery wall, is hanging up decorative shelves and displaying on them different sized picture frames with beautiful personal pictures or with unique wall art prints!
7. Wall Art & Mirrors Gallery Wall
A gallery wall doesn’t have to include only picture frames and wall art! You can also combine decorative objects like a beautiful wall mirror.
I love how they did this in this gallery wall. The large oval mirror is so pretty, and I love how they combined the neutral wall prints with the unique picture frames.
8. Modern Symmetrical Gallery Wall
For a modern design, you can’t go wrong with black symmetrical gallery wall!
It always looks elegant and put together, and you can either choose to print your images in black & white, or keep them colorful for a pop of color in your living room.
BedRoom Gallery Wall Ideas:
9. Neutral Gallery Wall
Starting off this section with a relaxing neutral gallery wall design!
All you are going to need is white picture frames and light wooden frames, and neutral wall art/black and white pictures to complete the look.
A neutral gallery wall is the perfect way to decorate your neutral bedroom in a unique and personal way.
9. Modern Bedroom Gallery Wall
This modern gallery wall is perfect to fill up an empty wall in your bedroom.
You can get some preppy wall art prints from Etsy, or anywhere online, and frame them in matching large black picture frames.
Are you familiar with the rule of three in interior design?
Basically, it means that decor pieces grouped in threes look more natural and visually appealing.
That’s because odd numbers challenge our brains, and are more interesting visually.
So, if you don’t want a crazy gallery wall, and you are looking for something more minimalist, 3 large matching picture frames with beautiful wall art or personal photos are a great way to decorate above your bed.
11. Vintage Gallery Wall
If you like vintage home decor, and have a vintage aesthetic bedroom, OR, you want to add a unique touch to a neutral bedroom, you can’t go wrong with a beautiful vintage picture frames gallery wall!
You can get different vintage picture frames, combined with beautiful gold picture frames, and create a unique vintage aesthetic gallery wall.
12. Boho Gallery Wall
For a boho aesthetic, you can’t go wrong with beautiful wooden picture frames in different sizes, with fun boho wall prints!
Another option for an elegant gold picture frames wall.
You can get different sized gold picture frames, and create a beautiful luxury-feminine wall art design for your gallery wall.
14. Trendy It Girl Gallery Wall Aesthetic
This trendy it-girl gallery wall is definitely bringing me some fun NYC girlie apartment vibes!
This is definitely one of my favorite gallery wall ideas.
I LOVE the combination of the gold picture frames with the wooden picture frames, and the different sized picture frames set up in general.
Hallway Gallery Wall Ideas:
15. White Frames Gallery Wall
This hallway gallery wall design is definitely one of my favorite gallery wall ideas in this post!
I love the white picture frames with the colorful photos. It makes both a minimalist yet unique touch to the space, and I love how the picture frames blend with the white colored wall, and the pop of color the personal photos bring.
16. Modern Hallway Gallery Wall
This modern gallery wall is definitely a meaningful design with the beautiful personal photos from their favorite memories together.
I love the black picture frames as well, and I love the pop of colors from the colorful pictures.
17. Entryway Gallery Wall
For an entryway, here’s a cute gallery wall layout idea to recreate.
You can get these gold picture frames on Target, and make a beautiful symmetrical gold frames gallery wall!
18. Minimalist Corner Gallery Wall
If you have an empty corner or wall space in your hallway, take advantage of that space by creating a little meaningful personal pictures gallery wall!
You can get a set of different sized picture frames, and I also love this double picture frame from Amazon too.
19. Large Wall Gallery Layout
If you are a gold lover, you can’t go wrong with filling an empty hallway wall with beautiful gold picture frames!
They printed their pictures in black and white, and I love it, though I also think colorful pictures can look just as good.
For a slim wall space, and with the rule of three, you can’t go wrong with three large picture frames with your top 3 favorite pictures.
You can either print them in black and white, and give a decorative accent to the wall, or you can keep them colorful.
20. Minimalist Gallery Wall
Last but not least, is another beautiful accent wall table with a minimalist gallery wall layout.
You can get these picture frames on Amazon, and print your favorite pictures in black and white to keep a minimalist aesthetic.
Gallery Wall Frames Sets:
That’s it for now! I hope you found some beautiful gallery wall ideas and picture frames to decorate your apartment walls with 🙂
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