Sisi describes her style as tropical maximalist and imbues her home with colour, pattern and texture in such an artful, joy-giving way. 

She recently re-worked her living room to create this gorgeous gallery wall and I particularly like how she has managed to fill the space with so many different kinds of images and frames. 

I think it’s genius that she has got her hands on teeny, tiny frames and squeezed them in between other, larger pictures to create a look that’s busy but curated.

Now, this is what I would call a ‘grown-up’ gallery wall. Here Lotte uses a mix of vintage imagery in deep, retro colours for a striking but homely look. 

I love that this formation doesn’t look crowded, sits in the middle of the wall and works out for the large, central poster. 

Keeping this poster as an anchor for the other prints to float around helps to create a grounding effect which is also calming. 

Sara Waiste has an interiors style after my own heart. I feel particularly inspired by her ability to lace pastel colours throughout her formation, staying faithful to a central colour palette of pink. 

She’s also a master of bringing together different patterns and making them work next to each other. 

I think the key is that, again, she focuses on one theme which in this case is flowers. Florals or botanicals appear in most of the art works and prints she has selected and I think this ties them together.

I had been gathering art prints for a while before I started thinking about my gallery wall formation, so to start with I laid out all of my options. 

Initially I wanted to include a mix of art, photography, typography, pattern and a poster, but my wall isn’t big enough to carry off all of these prints. 

Instead, I whittled down the options based on which colours worked best together and, inspired by Sara Waiste, if there was a central theme running through them.

After looking at all of the art prints I had, I used my measuring tape to roughly measure out the area of wall I wanted to fill and replicated this on the floor so that I could see how many prints would fit. 

The general aesthetic I was looking to achieve was not uninformed but with a theme running throughout; a feeling of balanced randomness. I chose pink and red as my main colour scheme and stuck to oak or gold Desenio frames so that while I was using two colours, the frames still matched. I was also careful not to bulk the colours together, I didn’t want half of the gallery formation to be gold frames and the other oak, so I mixed them up. 

To choose which prints would go where, I started at the centre with one of the larger prints and worked outwards. This is when having a measured out space became really helpful. 

In the end, mixing landscape with portrait helped me work with the space I had. Inspired by Sara Waiste, I also followed a botanical theme and chose to incorporate the prints that featured floral images.

Top tip: take a picture of your formation when you think you’ve got it right so that you can refer to it later. 

Now it’s time to put the method into practice. Using a pencil I outlined the corners of each print on the wall to see if they would fit into the space.

By seeing where each print would sit I could work out if my plans would work in reality and it helped me to feel more confident when attaching the frames to the wall.

After attaching my Command strips to my frames, I held the most central print in my formation in position. I was careful to keep it a couple of inches away from the wall so that I could use my spirit level to check how level it was.

When it looked like it was in the right position I pressed the frame firmly onto the wall to stick it in place.

With my pencil marks in place, my Command Strips pre-stuck on my frames and a formation planned out, I pressed each frame onto the wall and voila, the gallery wall was finished!