17 ways to hang art salon-style

A double height portrait wall in the Mid-Wilshire home of Andy and Johanna McElfresh.

Andy and Johanna McElfresh’s Mid-Wilshire living room features a wide assortment of art, many of them inexpensive paintings found at flea markets. Full house tour here.

Fifteen Gray Malin photographs hang over a sectional sofa in his West Hollywood Home. The curtains are from Pottery Barn, the table from West Elm and a fiddle leaf fig tree from Mickey Hargitay Plants. Tour Gray Malin’s house here.

Katherine LaNasa said her large artworks overpowered her small Venice home, and she needed wall space for shelves, so she hung smaller artworks salon-style. “Start with your biggest pieces and then just go for it,” she said.   (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

In a profile on the Hancock Park home of fashion designer Johnson Hartig of Libertine, a massive spin art painting by Damien Hirst is flanked by smaller artworks hung salon-style.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Before Obie-winning puppeteer, filmmaker and actor Paul Zaloom moved from this guesthouse in West Hollywood, we shared the way he displayed his collecting obsession and infectious wit. The centerpiece of the room is a striking 1960s earthworm chart credited to Jung-Koch-Quentell.”  (Stefano Paltera / For the Times)

Even Paul Zaloom’s bathroom was decorated with art.   (Stefano Paltera / For the Times)

Roger Gastman painted one wall of his home office red to create a dramatic backdrop. “I think about the framing, the color and the pattern of the pieces,” he said of the installation. Most of the works are punk rock fliers, fanzine pages, album covers and framed letters.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Onna Ehrlich Bell and husband Joel Bell’s Rudolph Schindler house in Inglewood has a wall of pictures that suits the young family.   (Katie Falkenberg / For The Times)

A more orderly approach: Family photos hung in matching Ikea frames in the hallway of the home of interior designer Jackie Terrell.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Jackie Terrell likes to find a throughline that connects photos: “They’re mostly all black and white, and the frames are identical, which neatens it up,” she said. “You have to keep it tidy in some way or else it looks messy.” The subject matter also is consistent.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The sensibility of drag queen Jackie Beat’s Highland Park home was a mash-up of camp, Hollywood Regency, ethnic, modern and Gothic -- all on display with a vengeance.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

A mix of work -- outsider art, pieces by emerging artists and some vintage finds -- is hung salon-style in the entryway of Melinda and Mark Fay’s home in Eagle Rock. At floor level, a bit of family practicality: metal baskets to collect shoes.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The thrift-shop landscapes and paint-by-number that fill the wall cost about $350 total. Decorator Tamara Kaye-Honey found the sconces at a Pasadena antique mall. The low-slung seating pictured here originally had a floral fabric and was re-covered in hides.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)