Wall Art & Rooms

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

A lone traveller crosses an arched bridge beneath a snowy willow.

Blue and white decor: 12 prints with porcelain colours

Hokusai’s snow, Hiroshige’s waves, Canaletto’s pale skies and Blake’s moonlit circle: twelve blue and white pictures to hang beside your porcelain.

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A young woman reads a love letter by golden light while her father watches from behind a curtain.

What art goes with blue walls? 12 paintings that glow

Gold, honey, amber and coral are blue’s natural partners. Twelve paintings by Turner, Böcklin, Blake, Rubens and Guardi that glow against a blue wall.

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A long Christmas table laid with food and glasses, with candles and a great fire, and family members gathered around.

Christmas mantel decor: 12 winter paintings to hang above the fire

Carl Larsson’s Christmas Eve, Queen Victoria’s tree, a Danish tree market and Courbet’s snowy village: twelve festive paintings for the season’s most important wall.

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A knight in armour embraces his two daughters as their ransom is counted on a table.

Blue wall art: 12 paintings from sky blue to deep navy

Manet’s seaside, Blake’s Dante, Homer’s open skies and Hiroshige’s fireworks: twelve paintings in every blue, from powder to midnight.

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Farmers plough the fields beside a large farmhouse, framed by tall trees under a cloudy sky.

Mantel decor ideas: 12 paintings for above the fireplace

A Brueghel farm, a Stubbs spaniel, a Ruysch bouquet and a Manet portrait: twelve paintings that hold the most important wall in the room, with how to hang them.

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A quiet stream winds through a dense, mossy ravine in deep green shade.

Emerald green decor: 12 jewel-toned paintings

Courbet’s hidden brook, a Mughal Tales of a Parrot page, a Rajput deer garden and Böcklin’s blazing summer: twelve paintings in deep, jewel-like green.

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A hazy blue green sea under a pale sky, with tiny bathers on the shore suggested in a few strokes.

Bathroom wall art: 12 serene pictures for a classy bathroom

Whistler’s little bathers, Monet at Étretat, a turquoise Homer and a moonlit Hokusai: twelve quiet water pictures for the smallest room, with the colours of each.

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A stone statue of Venus is half hidden by sage foliage and pale climbing roses.

Colours that go with sage green, taken from 12 paintings

Böcklin’s overgrown gardens, Moreau’s poets, Jan Both’s golden afternoons and Harunobu’s calendar print: twelve sage-toned paintings and the colours they pair with it.

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A cook tends the fire in a kitchen full of hanging game, vegetables, copper pots and earthenware.

Kitchen wall art: 12 masterpieces of cooks, kitchens and food

Copper pots and hanging game, a cat stealing fish, Cézanne’s apples and a Nantucket kitchen: twelve masterpieces for the heart of the house, with the colours of each.

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