Rehanging pictures

I'm rehanging pictures with gusto. In the living room of a friend, a long, narrow multi-image picture in handsome gold frame now hangs above gold silk curtains. The picture draws the eye upwards--making the curtained window seem taller, more elegant.   Above a wide arched doorway into the dining room, we hung a romantic watercolor of a lone cowboy riding across a field of snow toward a rushing waterfall hurtling down a rocky mountain wall. The effect is beautiful. In the dining room, we hung pressed flowers in a handsome dark wooden frame above burnt-bamboo etagere. Charming.  At home, I moved a beautiful pencil-signed-by-the-photographer colored photograph  of flowering plants growing beside a rock-filled rushing stream on the wall opposite my bed. What a wonderful view fills what had been a blank wall! Hanging art in new places gives us new views inside our private worlds.  Happy hanging!