When it comes to house and home decorating, there is a host of wonderful ideas that an interior design professional can work around with. In the present article, we will discuss one of the more startling and inspirational of these ideas—namely, designing your home décor around artworks and art pieces.

Of course, one can go the other way round too and choose the art pieces to match the décor and achieve perhaps no less a startling effect. But if you are an art lover and want your rooms to contain the art pieces you love (which is a great idea since artworks serve to provide daily inspiration in our lives), feel free to buy the works you love and you can then fashion your home décor around the pieces so as to even more enhance the effects of the art.

Here are a few techniques you can use to make your home décor support your art and make them look even better.

Multiple Works of Art. If you like works by a certain artist, consider decorating your living room with at least two pieces by the same artist. However, you will want to choose them carefully. They should show the similarity in style and patterns, but there should be differentiating factors, too. Colors, shapes and sizes may serve as these differentiating factors. It should be ideal if you can get a painting that you can mount horizontally while another of a vertical alignment so that one serves to complement the other.

Repetition of Color and Line. There are many ingenious ways by which you can make your home décor and furnishing pieces repeat the colors and lines in a painting, but in a manner so that the artwork still remains the focal point of the room. Use your sofa, rugs, pillows, vases, coffee or dining table, etc. to subtly emulate the colors, lines and shapes that are dominant in the art piece in question.

Furniture Placement. If you are putting your art in the foyer or the hallway, use of a single suitable furniture piece and in other cases, use of mirrors can greatly enhance the effect of the artwork. When you are designing your house décor around art pieces, the placement of the art is cardinally important, but so is the placement of the furnishings around the art. For example, a single wavy, undulating bench placed right beneath a painting hung in a hallway can enhance the latter’s effect. Here, the bench, even if it has little functional purpose, serves to underline the painting. Similarly, reflections from mirrors on the ceiling and the opposite walls can give a pretty dramatic effect to a painting at the same time as it reflects our attention back to the art itself.