Original Art

Lounge & Dining Room Art Sydney

Art in a home has to work with your furniture, your light, and the way a room feels at different times of day. Not just look good in a photograph.

Lounge room art Sydney: original Australian paintings chosen against your colours, finishes and furniture, with in-home trials across Sydney.

Lounge room art Sydney - long abstract original Australian painting above a lounge setting

What we look at

The room decides more than the artwork does.

We look at your colours, finishes and furniture before suggesting anything. Sending a photograph of the room is more useful than describing a style.

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Scale

The most common mistake in a large room is going too small. As a rough guide a work above a sofa wants to span about two thirds of the furniture below it.

02

Light

North facing rooms take saturated colour well. South facing rooms flatten it, and often want more contrast or a lighter ground to hold up.

03

Palette

A work does not need to match your furniture. It needs to sit comfortably with your floor, joinery and the two or three colours already doing the work in the room.

Lounge room art Sydney

The lounge is usually where a house wants its most considered piece, because it is the room people sit in longest and look at from a fixed position. We are good at helping people find work that feels right at home rather than merely gallery appropriate. That often means something quieter than a first instinct suggests: a work you will still like on a wet Tuesday in five years, rather than one that wins the first week and wears out.

Art for the dining room

Dining rooms are viewed seated, often at night, and frequently under warmer artificial light than the lounge. That changes what works. Pieces with depth and texture read well by lamplight, and a slightly lower hanging height suits a room where everyone is sitting down. Where a dining space is open plan we look at how the work relates to the lounge piece, so the two do not compete across a single sightline.

Large format and statement works

We hold one of the better selections of large and oversized canvases in Sydney: works that fill a wall, anchor an open plan living space, or command a double height entry — a scale increasingly featured in Houzz project galleries for Sydney renovations. We can advise on scale relative to your architecture, and we will tell you if a work is too small for the wall before you commit rather than after.

See it in the room first

This is lounge room art Sydney the way it should work: seen in your own space before you commit. For Sydney clients, we can bring shortlisted works to your home. We will hang them in the actual room and give you time to live with them before you decide. Available across the Sydney metro area, including Mosman, Clontarf, Double Bay, Bondi, Manly and Cronulla. For clients further afield we produce digital visualisations of shortlisted works to scale on a photograph of your wall.

Questions

Asked often enough to answer.

Send a photograph of the room and the wall width to get started — the fastest way into lounge room art Sydney clients ask us about most.

How big should a work above the sofa be?
As a starting point, about two thirds the width of the furniture below it. Going smaller than that is the most common mistake and it makes both the art and the sofa look wrong.
Does the art need to match my furniture?
No, and matching too closely usually reads as flat. It needs to sit comfortably with the colours already in the room, which is a different thing to repeating them.
How high should it hang?
Centre height around eye level for a standing viewer in a lounge, and a little lower in a dining room where everyone is seated. We set it on site rather than to a fixed rule.
Can I see works in my own home before buying?
Yes. We bring shortlisted pieces to your home across the Sydney metro area and hang them properly so you can judge them the way you will live with them.
Do you sell prints?
No. Every painting in our galleries is an original, made by the artist. We do not sell prints or reproductions of any kind.

Related services

Often booked together.

Original painting trialled in a Sydney lounge room before purchase

Home Trials & Visualisations

See a work in your own light before you decide.

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Framed original artworks hung on a gallery wall in Woollahra, Sydney

Art Hanging & Picture Rail

Level, at the right height, into the right fixing.

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Large format Australian painting installed in a Sydney interior

Consultation & Design

Advisory, sourcing, investment guidance and commissions.

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Get in touch

Send us the room.

A photograph of the wall and the furniture below it, plus a rough width. We will shortlist from there.

Or send an enquiry here