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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 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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Saint George on a white horse spears the dragon against a vermilion sky.

What art goes with green walls? 12 paintings that work

Red and pink sit opposite green on the colour wheel, and gold warms it from within. Twelve paintings, from Saint George to Utamaro, that glow on a green wall.

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A table heaped with fruit, a broken pie, silver and gold vessels, a peeled lemon and a lute against a dark background.

Dining room wall art: 12 still lifes and table scenes

A de Heem banquet, a Claesz breakfast, a Larsson Sunday table and a Monet evening after dinner: twelve masterpieces made for the room where you eat, with the colours of each.

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A rocky stream runs through a dense, sun dappled forest.

Green wall art: 12 masterpieces in every shade of green

Gauguin’s Tahiti, Bierstadt’s forest, the Unicorn Tapestries, a Bosch paradise and a mint green Rajput court: twelve masterpieces from moss to jade.

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Two large circles of fine pink lines, edged in pale yellow and blue, above white ovals on a soft pink ground.

Bedroom wall art: 12 calm paintings to wake up to

Soft pinks from Hilma af Klint, a sunlit sickroom by Carl Larsson, a river meadow by Rousseau: twelve quiet masterpieces for the room where you rest, with the colours of each.

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A young boy sits in a striped chair in the corner of a pale, sunlit Swedish room.

Neutral wall art: 12 soft paintings in cream, stone and sand

Carl Larsson’s white rooms, Lan Ying’s ink landscapes, Hokusai’s dyers and Hilma af Klint’s cream abstractions: twelve quiet pictures for a calm, neutral home.

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An idealised classical landscape with tall trees framing a road where a procession winds toward a distant temple and hills.

Large wall art for a living room: how big, and what to hang

How to size a big picture for your wall, and ten grand landscapes and views by Claude, Church, Bierstadt, Panini and Canaletto that hold a large print beautifully.

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