Do these 3 pieces of art work together? PsIP

lust2hart

We're moving into our first home soon - yay! - and in trying to figure out where to start with decorating ideas, I've decided I really want the 3 pieces below in a prominent place in our home.

http://www.stephensre.idxco.com/idx/6117/photoGallery.php?idxID=392&listingID=125624

This is not my house, but the floorplan for the main living area is the same except that I have a vaulted ceiling so there is no overhead beam separating the LR and DR - so the far left wall is solid and continuous from LR to DR.

Now, on to the art. I really love these 3 pieces, and would like to have them all in the LR/DR - but I don't know if they all coordinate well enough to accomplish this. I just don't feel like they really work, although I can't pinpoint why - maybe the bridge painting is a bit cooler than the other two? Maybe the frame on the bridge painting doesn't work? I just don't know. So I am wondering what you all think! Is there a color I could paint the long wall that will tie all 3 in together?

What I would *like* to do is paint the long wall one color, then have a second color on the DR wall opposite the long wall, and then a third color on the wall directly in front of the stairs. I don't want an entire upstairs of just beige, you know? So I'd like to use the paint to create 2 separate, but coordinating, spaces in the LR and DR. But I just don't know if that's going to work! ??

Thanks all!

floridakat

Ugh, i had a whole response typed out about how art doesn't have to match each other or your wall color, but TN ate it. Anyway, I would get your furniture and curtains in, then see where it makes sense to hang the pictures. If anything I think the first two go together (although I can't tell scale here) and the third may be your stand-alone, perhaps in the dining room.

lust2hart

Man, I hate when your post gets eaten! So irritating. Thanks for your thoughts!

April37

I think those three pieces will work together really well actually.  I do think you need the same frame for the two pictures.  (I assume the field picture is a canvas that does not get framed).  Here's an idea for arrangement:

Personally I would use floating shelves and I would have the pictures hanging on the wall, not sitting on the shelf.  (One picture above each shelf plus some nick nacks) I think the shelves would really help unify everything.

Sorry, I'm no help regarding wall color.

 

MommyLiberty5013

I think you can frame the canvas (we have two oil paintings that we got framed) and having it done in the same brown tone as the bridge would look good and create some more continuity. It doesn't need to be the same style of frame, though. And, these pieces work together because they are both landscapes and they share colors. Your third, which is cool, by the way, does work with the other two because it shares similar colors, but it could hang by itself. Ditto PP who said that art doesn't need to match. Matching art is way too hotel roomish, IMHO.