Rooms & Decor

Find a place for art at home. Browse room-by-room ideas for choosing pictures, arranging gallery walls and living with paintings, prints and personal portraits.

A tall bouquet of tulips, roses, irises and other flowers in a blue and white Chinese vase against a dark background.

Famous flower paintings: 18 bouquets from Ruysch to Van Gogh

Four centuries of bouquets, from the Dutch masters who painted every petal to Fantin-Latour, Renoir, Cézanne and Van Gogh: eighteen flower paintings and how to hang them.

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The stone front of Warwick Castle glows above a calm river where elegant figures stroll on the bank.

Traditional home decor: 12 classic paintings for a timeless room

Canaletto’s Warwick Castle, Ruisdael’s Bentheim, Dutch flower pieces, a Lawrence portrait and a Stubbs spaniel: twelve classic paintings for traditional rooms.

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A half peeled lemon, a glass of wine, bread and pewter dishes on a white cloth.

Kitchen colour schemes from 12 still life paintings

Pewter and lemon, oyster grey and claret, cream and cherry red: twelve still lifes by Claesz, de Heem, Manet, Cézanne and the Peales, each a ready made kitchen palette.

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Red roofed farm buildings glow in the sunlight beyond a shady path under tall trees.

Farmhouse wall art: 12 paintings of farms, fields and animals

Hobbema’s farm in the sunlight, Stubbs’s grey horse, Monet’s snowy farm road and Pissarro’s Éragny: twelve rustic masterworks for a farmhouse kitchen or a country living room.

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A group of cupids whisper together in a sunlit clearing.

Interior colour schemes borrowed from the old masters

Boucher’s sky blue and blush, Tiepolo’s ceiling colours, van Dyck’s royal green and Ruisdael’s cloud grey: twelve old master paintings, each a colour palette for the home.

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A knight in golden armour embraces a princess in a crimson gown in a richly patterned chamber.

Victorian decor: 12 paintings for a Victorian room

Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Waterhouse, Millais and Landseer: twelve paintings from the age of Queen Victoria for period rooms, dark wallpapers and William Morris prints.

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Tall courtyard walls with many paned windows, one open to the pale light.

Living room colour schemes from 12 famous paintings

Hammershøi’s greys, Whistler’s violet and rose, Caillebotte’s summer greens and Van Gogh’s Zouave: twelve famous paintings, each a living room colour scheme you can borrow.

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A dense thicket of dark green reeds at the edge of still water, with a few golden stalks catching the light.

Moody wall art: 12 dark paintings for a dramatic room

Böcklin’s castles and reeds, a Church campfire, a Doré knight and Hilma af Klint’s black altarpiece: twelve dark, dramatic pictures for deep walls and low light.

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The calligrapher Wang Xizhi watches geese from a pavilion beside the water.

Bedroom colour ideas taken from 12 masterpieces

Twelve bedroom colour schemes lifted from real paintings, from fresh sage and sky to golden peacock and dramatic black and bottle green.

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