Living Room

Every print on this page was chosen for the wall people actually look at — the one above the sofa, the one facing the front door, the stretch of empty plaster beside the television. The designs lean the way living rooms lean: botanical leaf triptychs in sage and olive, hydrangea and peony studies in blush and grandmillennial blue, terracotta sun and desert abstracts, and soft neutral shapes in beige and brown that sit quietly behind an already busy room.

Sets do most of the work here. Two or three prints in matching frames read as one deliberate arrangement rather than a collection of odds and ends, which is why so much of this collection is sets rather than singles. Everything is painted in watercolour first, then printed to order on heavy matte paper and shipped unframed, in seven sizes from 5x7 up to 16x20 inches (13x18 to 41x51 cm). New living room designs join this page automatically as I add them to the studio.

What size print should I hang above a sofa?

Measure the sofa and aim for artwork covering about two thirds of that width. For a standard three-seater that usually means one 16x20, or a set of two or three 11x14 prints hung with roughly 5 cm (2 in) between frames.

How high should living room art hang?

Centre the piece — or the centre of the whole group, if it is a set — about 145 cm (57 in) from the floor. That is gallery height, and it is the single easiest fix for art that looks like it is floating too near the ceiling.

Can I mix prints from different sets?

Yes, and it often looks better than a boxed set. Pick pieces that share one thing — a palette, a subject, or a similar amount of white space around the painting — and let everything else differ.

You might also like bedroom wall art, botanical prints or sets of 3 prints.