With items displayed symmetrically, no clear focus. Different frames give photographs nothing in common. Lacks color, which would create interest. Large, colorful painting gives mantel a focal point. Leaned artwork at eye level helps relate it to mantel.
Asymmetrical display directs the eye, emphasizing an order for viewing items.
Rust color in painting repeated in vase, base of birds. Rough texture of painting contrasts with smooth finish of vase, birds. Danny C. Flanders writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This material shall not be published or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.