San Francisco Bay Area - Dining room dilemma

by Susan Wahlman

Dining room dilemma

I would like to hang artwork on the end wall of my dining room. My problem is, if I center the artwork on the whole wall, it puts the artwork very close to the corner hutch...but centering it on the remainder of the wall doesn't seem like a good option either because then it sits off center from the table. I am considering placing the artwork centered in about the same space that the hutch takes up on the opposite side of the wall....leaving a blank space in the middle which I can place some wall simple glass sconces or candle holders....any suggestions?

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janishill you could make it a gallery wall...

(photos are just to give you the idea)

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Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design Great idea, Janis. That should work and the grouping could be just a pair of prints, side by side.

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janishill As long as they are large they will work! :-)

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decoenthusiaste Have you considered a smaller chandy? The current one seems to totally dominate the room. With the three cans, the chandy should really be for atmosphere, not actual illumination, so I think a beautiful drum style one would improve things and allow your new art to take center stage.

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olldbobbi It looks like you have the hutch perched in the corner? It looks good but it's using a lot of real estate there. I would place the hutch on the wall at the head of the table, and place your artwork on the other wall.

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Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design It looks like a corner cabinet to me.

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decoenthusiaste Looking again and considering that, as CAKD said, it is a corner cabinet, and it doesn't look to be part of a set you are necessarily trying to maintain, I would consider selling the hutch or using it elsewhere in the home. This would open your wall for art and a slender buffet or floating buffet shelf.

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olldbobbi Ah! Corner cabinet, didn't see that! You all are GOOD!

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Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design Well, we don't know for sure that it is a corner cabinet, that's just how it appears to me. Maybe Susan will enlighten us.

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vineyardflute I would do a sloping triangle of pictures. Start with a base of 4-6 in a row, little more than halfway down the wall. Then stagger 3-5 in the next row, with the last one edging towards the hutch. Continue up the wall in the same manner until you have 1 pic at top, leaning towards the hutch, at about the same height as the hutch. This will focus your eye centrally when seated, and draw the eye up and over when standing, taking in the hutch without it overpowering the room.

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Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design One would certainly have to have a bunch of pictures just hanging around in order to do that.

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Susan Wahlman It is a corner hutch and is a family heirloom so I won't be selling it. There are no corners in my kitchen, so it's there to stay. I'm trying to picture vineyardflute's idea of the sloping pictures....something I normally would only do on a stairway wall. I do like the gallery wall ideas though.

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decoenthusiaste How open is the interior of the hutch? Would it hold a TV in the bedroom or den?

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olldbobbi deco! Great idea!....Bobbi

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janishill Susan...are you married to the dark walls?

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Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design I suspect it could even hold clothes in a kid's room.

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lisianthus What if the artwork or grouping is narrow enough to leave some space between it and the hutch? i.e.,

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Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design Hey, lisianthus, you're a genius! It certainly looks good in your picture.

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Susan Wahlman lisianthus...that looks great. i have existing artwork....not sure if it is narrow enough...i will experiment with paper cut outs. thanks!

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Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design Well maybe we were all wrong from the start about not being able to put a single picture in the middle of the wall. It seems to me that a nice vertical picture would work as well as the 6 individual pieces, which certainly do look wonderful.

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