Hanging guide
A gallery wall is really just a few decisions made once and then repeated: one outer shape, one gap, one centre line. Here are the four layouts I use most often with animal and Irish landscape prints, the measurements that make them look deliberate, and ready-made print sets if you'd rather not start from scratch. Prices are in euro and exclude postage.
Not sure what size to start from? Read the print sizes guide · see prints framed in real rooms
Calm and tidy, and the easiest layout to get right because every measurement repeats. Best when the photographs share a mood — all landscapes, or all black-and-white.
The quietest way to fill a narrow wall between a door and a corner, or the space above a bedside table. Two related images — the same animal, or the same road in two lights.
Collected and lived-in. Start with the biggest print slightly off-centre, then build outwards, treating the whole group as one rectangle.
Follow the pitch of the stairs rather than the ceiling: keep the gap between frames identical and let the line rise with the steps.
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Decide the outer rectangle the group will occupy first. As a rule it should be about two-thirds the width of the furniture below and stop 15–20 cm above it.
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Cut newspaper or brown paper to each framed size and tape it up with masking tape. Live with it for a day before a single hole is drilled — the layout almost always shifts.
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The midpoint of the whole group sits at eye level, roughly 145–150 cm from the floor. In a stairwell, measure from each stair rather than the floor.
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Pick a single gap — 5 cm for small frames, 6–8 cm for mixed sizes — and use it everywhere. Uneven spacing is what makes a gallery wall look accidental.
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Start with the anchor print, then work left and right. Two hooks per frame keeps larger prints from tilting, and a smear of museum putty at the bottom corners stops them drifting.
Every photograph comes in all four sizes, framed in oak for €15 extra, and in black-and-white at no extra cost — so a set stays consistent however you mix it.
3 × 8×10″ · A clean horizontal run for a hallway or above a sideboard.
1 × 16×24″ anchor + 3 × 8×10″ · One big portrait carries the group; the smaller frames fill in around it.
Send me the wall measurements on the contact page and I'll plan the set for you, or browse everything in the print shop.
Free-to-visit collection in Dublin — useful for seeing how hanging height and spacing work in practice.
The timber species behind the warm, pale grain of the oak frames offered here.
Why acid-free, archival papers are used for work that is meant to last on a wall.
Irish and international postage rates and delivery times; prints ship flat in protective packaging.
Many of the animals photographed here live at Forever Home Sanctuary, a small animal sanctuary in Ireland. A share of every print sale goes back into their feed, hay and vet care.
