Plan the wall. Then pick the frames.
Set the wall you have, drag the pieces about, and read the span and the gaps off the bottom. Everything here is drawn at its real size.
Drag any piece to move it
- OVERALL SPAN
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- TALLEST PIECE TOPS OUT
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- ROOM EITHER SIDE
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Hang it where the eye already is.
Galleries work to a centre line about 1450mm off the floor, so the middle of the picture meets the middle of an average person looking at it. The plan above holds every piece to that line, which is why a row of different sizes still reads straight.
Over a sofa or a sideboard the group drops a little, so the bottom of it sits 150 to 250mm clear of the back. Hang to the wall and it floats; hang to the furniture and it belongs to it.
Close enough to be one thing.
A gap of 50 to 80mm between pieces reads as a single arrangement. Push past about 120mm and the eye starts treating them as separate pictures that happen to share a wall.
Mount width pulls the same lever from the inside. A generous mount gives a small picture presence without making the frame any bigger, which is often the better answer on a narrow wall.
All of that is convention rather than law. Bring the pieces in and it gets settled across the counter in about two minutes.
Cut, joined and fitted to the thing itself.
A frame made to size
Moulding cut and joined around the piece. Nothing is trimmed down to fit something off a shelf.
Mounts, cut and bevelled
The card border, its window cut at 45 degrees so the opening reads as cut rather than punched.
Glass, non-reflective or acrylic
Clear and heavy, or coated to take the room out of it, or lighter and unbreakable for a big piece.
Backing and fittings
Sealed at the edges, then the cord, D-rings or plates that get it on the wall the right way up.
Box frames
Depth behind the glass for a shirt, a cap, medals, a christening gown — anything that is not flat.
Re-framing and re-glazing
Something old or cracked taken apart, cleaned up, and put back in a frame that suits it now.
Bring the pieces, not just the measurements.
Framing is priced on the size of the piece and what goes round it — the moulding, the mount, and the glass over the front. With the pieces on the counter you get a figure the same day, and the whole group gets settled together rather than one at a time.
If a trip is awkward, ring with the measurements and we will talk it through.
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
- 8am–4pm
- Saturday
- 9am–12 noon
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Closed
- Where
- 310 Ovenden Road, HX3 5TJ
The four o'clock finish and the closed Wednesday catch more people out than anything else. Typical hours — ring before a special trip.