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By Petra from A Mum Reviews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have just started a new feature wall in my house and the idea is that it will be a wall of mix and match photos, images and illustrations that reflect my family\u2019s life and passions. It\u2019s a feature wall that will gradually grow as we add more pieces of art and photos to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the start of the wall we ordered four slim canvas prints<\/a> \u2013 three that are 8×8\u201d big and one that\u2019s 12×12\u201d. You can start with anything as long as you start in a place of the wall that allows you to expand the picture feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The canvas prints arrived a few days after I ordered them. They were individually packaged and well-protected. The small canvas prints were wrapped in plastic and the large one in a soft cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The four prints we chose are some of my favourite images and that\u2019s exactly what this kind of wall is all about. The large one is one of my own Cleopetradesign illustrations\/designs and the three small ones are very important photos \u2013 our 20 week scan photo from when I was pregnant with our daughter, a really old photo of my late father when he was about 20 (60 years ago!) and one of my absolute favourite baby photos of our little girl. The pictures are all very different but somehow go together really well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it\u2019s important to have a diverse mix but also something that ties the images together. These four are all square and on the same canvas style and that helps bring them together. The scan photo and the one of my dad are both low resolution, black and white and also quite dark which makes them look good on the same wall but I wouldn’t put them next to each other because they are too similar. (Low resolution images can often look very good on canvas since the texture of the cloth hides it quite well.) I also like the bright blue and red combined and those two colours are something we\u2019ll look out for when we are choosing the next images for our wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are using our stairwell wall for our mix and match feature since it\u2019s a nice unused area that was quite boring with just white wallpaper. White walls make great backgrounds for all kinds of art, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had an idea of what I wanted to do but for bigger projects like these it\u2019s good to have a well thought through plan so I decided to draw a sketch of the wall on my computer and play around with our design options. You can, of course, do this by hand too but on the computer you can easily insert the actual pictures that you want to use and adjust the sizes and move them around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After creating a few options and seeing the prints in real life, we decided on this plan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The left side shows our current four canvas prints and the right side shows an example of how we could expand in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are building from the very top of the stairs downwards. This seems to be the best way when working on a wall like this one. If we were to work on a regular wall, we would have started in the middle for a well-balanced look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All you need to get the pictures up on the wall is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n