When Decorating Your Body, Would You Wear Your Necklace on Your Forehead?

So you can imagine that I have been in more houses that the average person. As an interior decorator it is hard to keep my eyes to myself and not take in my new surroundings, and inevitably my roaming eyes elicit a question about advice. There is a common ailment in most rooms and it is that the art is either hung too high or too low! Some things are so high it hurts your neck to look at them. It would be like wearing your necklace on your forehead instead of your chest! It is especially a problem with people who have high ceilings.

Generally when hanging artwork think first of the function of the room. The artwork should be at eye level. If this is a room where you are typically seated, then stand-alone artwork should be hung with 54" from the floor to the center of the art. If it is a room you are normally walking through, then there should be 60" from floor to the center of art.

Now clearly when you have stacked artwork the grouping can go higher or lower. And, there are many instances involving stairways or cathedral celings when you can hang things very high, but 95% of the time the function rule prevails.

Happy Decorating!