Getting it right in your new home

Moving home is exciting and stressful. The planning takes months, packing boxes is laborious and unpacking boxes is exhausting! The cutlery is in the right drawer, all the furniture is in place and the beds are made up – now for the fun bit! We all leave unpacking our art until last because it needs to be carefully placed around our furniture – but our new house does not look like our home until we have hung our paintings and placed our sculptures and ceramics.

BUT very rarely do we move in to a new house that is similar to our last home. It may be a very different size or style, or both, so it is important to look at our artworks with fresh eyes and decide what is going to work in this house. You need the “Keep or Cull” process.

 In some ways it’s easy – does this painting bring me joy? Does this piece of art bring back good memories? Does it fit in with the style of the house?

Be ruthless – you won’t regret it!

Make 3 piles – 1. definitely keep   2. definitely get rid   3. not sure – might work if I reframe it.

This is a very satisfying process. Culled pieces could be sold or given to charity – or it could be that you can reuse the frames for other pieces.

What are you left with?

Quite simply you will be left with art that you love and so once hung and placed your new house will be your new home!