Artist, interior decorator and busy mom Stacy Dalton drops by once a week to share home decorating tips, art facts and more.
Just as every seasoned chef has a signature, easy-to-make dish that suits a wide range of occasions, every designer I know has an all-purpose decor trick or two up her sleeve. For me, a favorite ace-in-the-hole is to design with art sets.
Like it sounds, an art set is a group of two or more pieces of art that work together as a team and have coordinated mats and frames. Large art sets are a terrific way to fill up the space in large rooms, and smaller sets work beautifully in smaller rooms. Really, they work just about anywhere! You can visually "bracket" a large work of art or mirror with a smaller art set on either side, you can hang sets on a diagonal in stairwells to add interest...the possibilities truly are endless.
Right now, I really love this beautiful, vertically oriented pair by Daphne B.:
I just love the graphic element in these images, and how the delicate silhouettes are at once modern and a bit vintage-inspired too. Queen Anne's Lace is all over the place here in the Midwest -- by the roadside, along quiet paths -- especially this time of year, so it's nice to see that reflected in the artwork. The color palette is really autumnal too, with all the rusty browns, ivories and those subtle hints of copper green.
So, all Set to decorate? :-) See you next week!
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