Gallery Wall Design and Installation

Gallery walls are an excellent way to showcase many of your most cherished pieces together on one wall space. Sometimes there’s a theme, such as all family photos, or all sports memorabilia, but often it’s just an opportunity to mix unrelated themes, shapes, sizes, and frame materials.

Sometimes it’s that “everything else” wall: you’ve chosen spaces for hanging certain pieces throughout your home and so the gallery wall becomes the place for everything else. And when that happens, it often becomes the favorite wall for everyone living in or visiting your home.

We’ve arranged and/or installed about three hundred gallery walls, in all shapes and sizes, some elaborate, some simple. Many were themed, many were not. You probably have an idea, from browsing through magazines or the web or even this website, what kind of look you want. 

There are carefully planned gallery walls, laid out in sections or for symmetry:

Then there are gallery walls with a more random look. These typically are installed faster because there is very little time spent designing, but there is one important thing to know: you may run out of wall space before hanging all the pieces, or you may run out of pieces before the wall is filled up. Because of that first possible, the planning stage should at least consist of some prioritization, i.e., “these pieces MUST get hung” and “these other pieces should get hung if there’s room.”

There are gallery walls which intentionally have a random “look” but were in fact carefully designed because an exact group of pieces had to fit nicely in a certain wall space, or because some pieces need to hang next to or away from other pieces.  Here’s one such installation we planned, in careful consultation with the client. It ended up being featured in LA Design magazine.

Gallery walls above stairs, even when they have a random look, usually require planning time for multiple reasons. Among those are:

You want a look that, while not symmetrical, is balanced, both vertically and horizontally. You want the pictures to appear to follow the slope of the stairs, particularly if the pictures are above a handrail. And because the installation is more difficult (much more difficult if ladder equipment is required), planning helps prevent time-consuming mistakes.

Most clients ask us to do the design as well as the installation, but we can instead do just the design, or just the installation. But please note that for non-random gallery walls, if we don’t do the design, we can do the installation only after someone has designed it AND calculated all measurements, then charted those measurements in a way that we can understand.

Whatever your needs, contact us today to bring you closer to having the gallery wall(s) of your dreams.