Phot placement on stairway

[Mrs.flang]

Can I get your input on this photo placement? It’s a short stairway and you see this wall right in front of you when you walk into the house which is why I grouped them toward the bottom instead of spreading them up the stairs, but I’m just not very good at this. Does it look ok? The placeholders are not exactly to scale but there are two square frames and two rectangular.

[nicolewi]

Something doesn't look right to me. I found info online when I did something similar that the center of your grouping should be about 57" above "floor" (stair). Yours looks too high to me.
www.groupon.com/articles/how-to-hang-a-picture

I think the height looks off, they should be further apart, and it would really help if you had an odd number for your grouping. I think you need a fifth item, like another photo, or even a couple small decorative objects like mirrors or something.

[simpsongal]

Ditto - I’d add a fifth and lower them. Good call with the mock-up

[dr.girlfriend]

I don't love it. I would think about maybe staggering them going up even if it doesn't work as well facing head-on? I think you want to draw the eye up the stairway.

ETA:  Like this

[redheadk]

Try flipping the whole thing horizontally and lowering it all slightly.

It should be going up in the same direction as the stairs.

[dr.girlfriend]

www.mkenvision.com/blogs/blog/staircase-gallery-wall-design-tips-layouts?epik=dj0yJnU9ZndrQVF6SG96a045OVlQR3A1UkN5YUlxQnJTbEtLQzUmcD0wJm49bEFGWkRGZ1lvQWFUUWNpZTNPSW1MdyZ0PUFBQUFBR0dHNUxJ

[mouse]

Not necessary in a mock-up, but one thing I found that really helps with gallery walls is even spacing between all the pieces. I’d also do them a bit further apart.

[stemmie]

I feel like the part that bugs me the most is that you are treating the section of the wall from the corner to where the cut in the ceiling is as a "subsection" and the art is not centered which makes it look less intentional.

I also feel like the pieces should either be in larger frames or there need to be considerably more of them.

Since this looks like a split level "half-staircase" maybe it makes sense to just do a gallery wall.

[Pilsy]

OP, I'm no help - sorry!

I've contemplated a staircase gallery wall and can't get past the idea of someone banging the frames off the wall on the way up/down the stairs.

For those who have one of these, does that just not happen??

[dr.girlfriend]

Nov 12, 2021 13:04:49 GMT -5 Pilsy said:

OP, I'm no help - sorry!

I've contemplated a staircase gallery wall and can't get past the idea of someone banging the frames off the wall on the way up/down the stairs.

For those who have one of these, does that just not happen??

My mom knocked one frame off the wall, but she's in her 80s and has some balance issues -- enough that now I follow her up and down the stairs when she visits.  We are just pretty careful, and the bannister is on the other side.  They've been knocked askew occasionally, but nothing has broken except for my mom.  I am very careful when bringing the laundry basket up, but nothing is at waist or hip height, they are all pretty much at shoulder or head level going up the stairs.