# Wall art room by room: nursery, home office and hallway

> Which prints suit a nursery, a home office and a hallway — sizes, subjects, heights and colours for the three rooms people leave until last.

- Canonical page: https://hollzphotography.com/blog/wall-art-for-every-room
- Business: Hollzphotography — signed animal and Irish landscape photography prints
- Photographer: Amy Byrne, Ireland
- Contact: info@hollzphotography.com · 083 881 3982

- Published: 2026-08-20
- Reading time: 6 minutes
- Topics: nursery wall art, office wall art, wall art ireland, animal wall art

Every house has three walls that stay bare longest: the nursery, the room the laptop lives in, and the hall. They each want something different.

## Nursery

Children's wall art does not have to be cartoons. Real animal photography works better and lasts longer — a child grows out of a smiling giraffe illustration by four, but a photograph of a foal stays on the wall until they leave for college.

- **Size:** 8×10″ or 12×16″. Big enough to see from a cot, small enough not to loom.
- **Height:** hang low — around 120 cm to centre — so it is at the child's eye level when they are standing, not the adult's.
- **Subject:** animals with faces. Foals, lambs, dogs, the goat. Soft, quiet images rather than dramatic skies.
- **Safety:** two fixings, not one, and never glass directly over a cot — an unframed print or a set of small prints on the opposite wall is safer.
- **Sets of three** in matching frames read as considered and give you something to point at and name.

Start with [farm animal prints](/prints/farm-animal-prints) or [dog wall art](/prints/dog-wall-art).

## Home office

Whatever is behind you is on every video call, and whatever is in front of you is what you look at all day.

- **Behind you:** one 12×16″ or 16×24″, centred, hung so it clears your head in frame. Landscapes read better on camera than busy animal portraits, which pull focus.
- **In front of you:** something with depth — a road, a valley, an open field. Looking at distance every so often is the closest thing to a break a desk gives you.
- **Avoid glass** if a window faces the desk; reflections on a glazed frame will wreck both the view and the call. Unframed or non-glare is safer.
- **Colour:** cool greens and greys hold up on a screen; heavy warm gold can make a webcam shift colour.

The [landscape prints](/prints/irish-countryside-wall-art) collection is the one to look at.

## Hallway

Halls are narrow, badly lit and passed at speed. Treat them accordingly.

- **Small and repeated.** A row of four or five 5×5″ prints in matching frames at a consistent 145 cm centre line does more than one big piece.
- **High contrast.** Detail is lost in dim hall light — go for strong shapes and black and white rather than subtle tonal work.
- **Stairs:** follow the pitch of the stairs, not the floor. The method is in the [hanging height guide](/blog/how-to-hang-a-picture).
- **Spacing:** 5–8 cm between frames, identical the whole way along, or it looks accidental. The [gallery wall guide](/blog/gallery-wall-ireland) has a paper-template trick for this.

## What each room costs

| Room | Suggested | Framed cost |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nursery | One 8×10″ | €35 |
| Nursery set | Three 8×10″ | €105 |
| Home office | One 12×16″ | €45 |
| Hallway run | Five 5×5″ | €125 |

All excluding postage. Half of every order goes to [Forever Home Sanctuary](https://foreverhomesanctuary.charity).

Browse the [full shop](/shop) or the [animal wall art collection](/prints/animal-wall-art).

## FAQ

### What wall art works in a nursery?

Real animal photography rather than cartoon illustration — foals, lambs and dogs at 8×10″ or 12×16″, hung around 120 cm to the centre so it sits at a small child's eye level. Use two fixings and avoid glass above a cot.

### What should I hang behind me for video calls?

One 12×16″ or 16×24″ landscape, centred and high enough to clear your head in frame. Landscapes read better on camera than busy animal portraits, which pull focus.

### What size prints suit a hallway?

A row of four or five 5×5″ prints in matching frames, spaced 5–8 cm apart along a consistent 145 cm centre line. Halls are dim, so favour high-contrast or black-and-white images.

### How much does it cost to do a whole room?

A framed 8×10″ for a nursery is €35, a framed 12×16″ for an office €45, and a hallway run of five framed 5×5″ prints €125, all excluding postage.

## Pages

- [Print shop](https://hollzphotography.com/shop)
- [Gallery](https://hollzphotography.com/gallery)
- [Print guide](https://hollzphotography.com/prints)
- [Wall art in real rooms](https://hollzphotography.com/wall-art)
- [Print sizes guide](https://hollzphotography.com/print-sizes)
- [Gallery wall guide](https://hollzphotography.com/gallery-wall)
- [Gift guide](https://hollzphotography.com/gift-guide)
- [Journal](https://hollzphotography.com/blog)
- [About Amy](https://hollzphotography.com/about)
- [FAQ](https://hollzphotography.com/faq)
- [Pet portraits & commissions](https://hollzphotography.com/commissions)
- [Events](https://hollzphotography.com/events)
- [Contact](https://hollzphotography.com/contact)