Wall decor ideas and how to achieve them

Vintage View: All you need to know from hanging a single picture to creating a salon-style wall

Take a photocopier, a scanner and an A4 ream of paper to create this delightful cottage-core take on a Georgian print room. Un-fast ink will fade over time, antipodream.co.uk

LAST week, having surveyed the various dioramas of ornamental and sentimental stuff heaped up on every shelf and table surface, we decided to fly a good grab of things up onto the relatively blank walls. A few sharp words, a whirling power drill, a level, sliced cork (more of that later), wall-plugs and a few mirror hooks; what a relief and a surprising aesthetic refresh.

Putting it all out there — your taste, your choices, your collecting history — curating walls can seem an unsettling challenge. So, here’s just a few hacks to make effective decisions to not only get your collection to gallery standard, but to push those walls around, visually tweaking awkward, odd spaces with creative placements.