Wall Art & Rooms

Gallery walls, framing choices, and how to hang custom portraits — room by room, with measured guidance from the Fable editors.

A beautifully dressed woman stands beside a trellis of morning glories.

Gallery wall ideas: 3 ready-made walls from 12 masterworks

A Japanese print wall, a wall of beloved dogs and cats, and a William Blake wall: three gallery walls built from twelve real masterworks that belong together.

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A woman in a wine red silk bodice and pearls turns to meet our gaze.

Burgundy wall art: 12 paintings in wine and oxblood

Velázquez’s little prince, Landseer’s spaniels, Böcklin at dusk and a Dutch table laid with wine: twelve paintings in wine, oxblood and claret.

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A girl reads at a pale green table beside a pot of bright red flowers.

Art for a quiet room: 12 paintings for reading nooks and calm corners

Readers by Larsson and Utamaro, Corot’s woman in meditation, Shitao’s misty mountains and Millet’s shepherdess: twelve pictures that slow the room down.

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Crescents and a circle of colour float on a flat vermilion ground.

Red wall art: 12 paintings with crimson at their heart

Hilma af Klint’s vermilion swans, Yoshitoshi’s rooftop duel, a Medici princess and a Christmas parlour: twelve paintings where red is the star.

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A chair, a wooden horse on wheels and a doll in a small pram sit in a lamplit corner.

Nursery art: 12 gentle vintage pictures for a child’s room

Larsson’s toys, Renoir’s child in white, Hokusai’s lost kite and Blake’s dancing fairies: twelve gentle classic pictures of childhood for a nursery or child’s room.

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A courtly procession winds through a landscape between bands of golden cloud.

Gold wall art: 12 paintings that shine

Gold leaf screens from Japan, Mughal manuscripts, Blake’s Last Supper and Moreau’s Venice: twelve paintings that glow with gold and golden light.

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A boy reads a large book in a high backed chair at a red desk in a bright room.

Home office wall art: 12 paintings for focus

Wright of Derby’s alchemist, Dürer’s scholars, Larsson’s children at their desks and Hilma af Klint’s key: twelve pictures of people thinking, reading and making, for the room where you work.

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A pale sphere holding a pink heart, crossed by a spiralling double line.

Pink wall art: 12 paintings in blush, rose and coral

Hilma af Klint’s pastel cosmos, Utamaro’s rose kimonos and a Rococo marquise with a rose in her hair: twelve paintings in every shade of pink.

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A sunlit stretch of the ancient Via Sacra in Rome, leading toward the church of Saints Cosmas and Damian.

Guest room decor: 12 welcoming paintings for visitors

Rome in the sun, a London courtyard, Tahiti with Gauguin and a Swedish river with Carl Larsson: twelve travelling pictures that make a guest room feel like a small holiday.

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