Yes, the living room is suitable for hanging calligraphy and paintings.
1. The living room is the main place for our activities in family life. It is the place where we meet guests and communicate with others. Selection of hanging paintings in the living room
2. According to Chinese customs, hanging paintings in the living room is a very common way of decoration. Hanging calligraphy and paintings indoors can enhance the artistic atmosphere of your home, broaden your horizons, and increase your sense of beauty. You will feel physically and mentally happy when you look at them every day. However, the decoration of calligraphy and painting is very particular. The living room is the facade of the family. Whether the decoration is elegant and appropriate can best reflect the taste of the owner.
The paintings in the living room are suitable for hanging some calligraphy and paintings with beautiful and auspicious meanings, such as peony paintings of wealth and auspiciousness, elegant classical poetry and calligraphy works, longevity pictures of blessing health and longevity, longevity belt birds, pine and crane longevity, China People have a strong attachment to landscapes since ancient times, and it is also suitable to hang some landscape paintings in the living room, including antique and modern landscapes. From a Feng Shui perspective, it is advisable to use fair and aboveboard content and avoid towering things.
It is not easy to hang paintings with depressed moods in the living room. These paintings include sunset reference, bleak fallen leaves, old duck with dead wood, alone on the road, deserted home in mid-winter, and fighting with evil beasts.
2. How to choose appropriate calligraphy and painting
1. Theme
There are no strict and specific principles for what kind of paintings should be hung [1] , as long as it’s harmless and the owner’s friends like it. If you want to hang multiple paintings in the room at the same time to increase the atmosphere of the room, then the owners must pay attention to the integrity of the multiple paintings and avoid mutually exclusive themes and styles.
2. Size
Owners should also decide the size of the selected painting based on the actual size of the room. After all, this is related to the visual effect of hanging the work. Generally speaking, for a living room of about 30 square meters, the suitable size of hanging calligraphy and painting should be controlled at about 60 centimeters wide and 80 centimeters long. For relatively narrow aisles or entrances, long banners of calligraphy and painting should be the main ones.
3. Location
If there are obvious unsightly areas in the room, or the sockets on the wall are too obvious, or the painted wall has obvious flaws, All of these can be blocked by hanging calligraphy and painting. As for the height of the hanging calligraphy and painting, you should also pay attention to the comfort level when viewing it. It is not advisable to be too high or too low. In addition, gongbi paintings should be hung in a place with better light as much as possible so that the finer details of the painting can be shown, while the opposite is true for freehand ink paintings.
4. Style
Calligraphy and painting must be mounted. Whether it is scroll-style mounting or frame-style mounting, it can modify the painting and calligraphy. In the living room, the number of hanging calligraphy and paintings should not be too many, especially the simultaneous appearance of ancient and modern themes, Chinese and foreign themes. Too many calligraphy and paintings hanging indoors will make people feel cluttered and without a sense of order. Not only will they not have the proper decorative effect, they will even have negative effects.