Gallery Wall

A gallery wall is a group of pictures hung together as a unified display. Arrangements range from highly organized grids (same size, same spacing) to irregular salon-style clusters (mixed sizes, densely packed) to linear rows along a wall or staircase.

The defining feature of a gallery wall is that the whole reads as a single visual unit, even though it's composed of multiple pieces. This coherence comes from shared elements: consistent frame colors, similar subject matter, a shared palette, or aligned edges.

Well-planned gallery walls start with paper templates cut to the size of each framed piece, arranged on the wall with painter's tape before any nails go in. This eliminates the most common failure mode: holes in the wall that don't match the final arrangement.