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Hi, it's Lindsay Diane from Diane Decor.com
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In this video we're going to talk all about gallery walls. Gallery walls are a great way to decorate your home
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They can spotlight a collection of photos, whether it be family photos or things from your travels
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or you can use a mixed media approach and create a different type of collection to display
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on your wall. In this video, we're going to talk all about the different styles of gallery walls and
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how to go about setting those up. Let's get started. The first type of gallery wall is the uniform or structured gallery wall
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Now this is one where the spacing between the frames is uniform as well as the size of the
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picture frames you choose. So all of your frames would be, let's say, 11 by 14 or 8 by 10
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the spacing that you have between each one of your rows and columns is exactly the same
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Uniformed gallery walls are really easy to set up. You can just use some painters tape and a level
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to help set up your grid, or you can use a fancy laser level option that will help you
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just project a straight line on your wall and use that to guide you
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typically with a uniform gallery wall because you are using frames that are all the same size
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the odds are you're going to use photographs as opposed to some other type of wall art within this
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gallery so think of nine or six different family photos or travel photos or even you can get
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creative anything that you can put inside a frame maybe it's maps you know roadmaps with little
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dots on the destinations you've been to, or you could have ribbons or certificates, whatever it is
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As long as it will fit inside that frame, it's going to be perfect for a uniform gallery wall
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Next up is a free form or organic gallery wall. Now, this is one that does not have any firm boundaries
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It may take a shape of a wave. It may meet at a corner in a staircase
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you can really get creative if you want to go with a freeform gallery wall
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Now the only caveat to this style is that you do want to have near set spacing with your freeform gallery wall And this is important because it helps the viewer to understand it as one big cohesive piece
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If you have spacing that's too far apart, then you're just going to look like you have a bunch of
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things jumbled up floating out into space along your wall, and it won't read as one unit
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So it's really important to make sure that if you're going to go this route and you're not going to
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a structured rectangle or structured square and you kind of want to drift out and make a
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different shape that you have all of your items close set together so that it reads
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together. The other thing that you can do with a free-form gallery wall is you can
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start to mix in other types of wall art. You don't necessarily have to have all
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picture frames. So feel free to be creative and put up some other types of
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wall art whether they're little wall sculptures or or possibly little figurines that can hang from your wall
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You can do that with a free-form gallery wall style. The next type of gallery wall style is the Farset gallery wall
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Now this is where the spacing between your frames is a bit more exaggerated
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And to do this really well, you might want to use the same color frame and matting within
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the frame. So an example here, you see you have a white wall with white frames and white matting
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And the matting itself is also exaggerated. It's quite thick. And you'll see that the photographs
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inside of the matting are really very small. And it helps give this really exaggerated spacing
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to the gallery wall itself. I think it looks really cool. It definitely attracts the eye and it's
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unique. So if you want to try this style, know that it works best if you have a matching frame
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and matting and then go ahead and find something that has some exaggerating matting, like a good
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two inches of matting inside of it, so that it will help really create these big gaps in
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between your photographs. This is something where you do want to have hard boundaries, because
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again, you don't want these pieces just floating out on your wall and just kind of
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looking like they're placed there randomly. So go ahead and use a rectangular or a square pattern that has firm boundaries And then use the matting and the frame trick to help exaggerate that spacing and you have a really cool gallery wall In contrast to that there are near
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gallery walls. Now, these are very popular right now. A near-set gallery wall is just that. It's
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one that is set very close together. The frames are very, very close together. So we're saying about
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half an inch or so apart. You really wouldn't put them much more than that. Now, a near set gallery
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wall is cool because it will help you fill a wall with multiple pieces and give the illusion that
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it's just one big cohesive unit. So if you have a large wall, like we recently talked about
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dining room walls, sometimes you have a really big wall that you want to decorate, but really
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big art installations are expensive, whether they're canvas art or prints or some type of
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sculptural art, the bigger they are, the more expensive they are. And so the budget-friendly
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approach to decorating a large wall is to use multiple small pieces and organize them so that
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they're read as one big piece. We've seen this done for a long time with wall art pieces
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especially like the one I have back here, although I wouldn't consider that new. set spacing, but you might have a set of two or a set of three and they're meant to be
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hung in a series and read together as one piece of artwork
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You can do the same thing with a near set gallery wall and have, you know, whether it's a
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three by six or you can do the same thing with a near set gallery wall
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You could have, you know, rows of three by three or even more than that, depending upon
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how big your wall is and just go ahead and make sure that the spacing between each of those frames
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is very, very small and it will help read as a nice big unit. And it's just a really modern
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approach to the gallery wall. And finally, to touch back in on that mixed media wall, a mixed
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media wall is one that is made up of different types of artwork. So it may be that you have a
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piece of wooden word art and you have a picture frame and you have some type of metal
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artwork that hangs on a wall you can mix in different types of things and get them into a gallery wall as long as you have some type of common theme or thread and so by that I mean you want to have something either all of a similar color all of a similar material or all of a similar subject matter
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So let's say you like elephants. And you could go ahead and put together a gallery wall that has
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photographs of elephants. You could have a little wooden elephant figurine. You could have a little wooden elephant
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figurine, you could have a woven tapestry with an elephant on it. All of these things can be
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gathered together to create an organic or free-form gallery wall, right? Because odds are, if you're
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doing mixed media, you're going to have that organic, free-form look, because it's hard to get
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everything in the same shape and size if it's not all frames. So you would have something like that
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if you have all elephants. Or maybe you have something that's all like a hammered metal and a
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copper tone. You could do that, something that's all distressed wood. You could do that
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A mixed media gallery wall is really cool and interesting to look at because it's unique
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No one's going to have the same one. It's something that you've put together yourself and it's
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personal to you and no one else is going to have anything that looks like that
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They're also really great to fill in spaces that aren't uniform. So let's say you have
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a console table along the bottom of your staircase. And your console table, you've got this flat
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surface here, and then you've got your staircase going up on this kind of trajectory, and you have
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this kind of triangular wall that you want to fill above the console table. A mixed media
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free form gallery wall is the perfect thing to go there, because you can arrange your pieces
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so that they fill in that triangle in a perfect way that a regular framed work would not
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That's it for this video. I hope you found it helpful. Next time you want to set up your gallery wall
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know that there are a lot of different varieties that you can go with, and you don't have to stick with the same old three-by-three grid
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You can really get creative with how you approach your gallery wall
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Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to visit me at diane decor.com
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I post all about home decorating inspiration and ideas over there. If you like this video, please give it a like and consider subscribing to my channel
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and I will see you in the next one. Bye
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