Do you buy a piece of art because you love the ingeniously edgy way the painter uses brush strokes to revel in the interplay between light and shadow?

Or do you buy a piece of art because you think the colors and canvas size are perfect for the space you need to fill in the master bathroom?

Whatever your reason for choosing artwork, just know that it’s a 100-percent valid and proper reason. And the reason it’s valid and proper is because it’s YOUR reason.

A Subjective Process

But here’s the thing. You acquired that piece of art to accomplish something. Specifically, you want to feel good every time you look at that wall where this artwork will (or already does) hang.

Which leads to an important point. What you mount on your walls matters.

That’s why it needs to be placed within a frame that not only beautifully showcases the painting (or photograph or object) but that adds beauty to your home.

In fact, if you think about it, a frame is in and of itself a piece of art (which explains the hot trend of hanging empty frames).

Trouble is it’s challenging to figure out which frames work best with which pieces of art within various rooms coordinated in various decor styles.

In other words, choosing the right frames for your home is often a subjective process. And that makes it tricky.

......to be continued.....