7 ideas for displaying your Disney art

We’ve collected a lot of artwork on our trips to Disney World over the years — including one especially great photo from Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin. The question has always been: how to we display this art in a way that’s clever and cohesive?

We turned to Houzz.com for inspiration and found plenty of good ideas. The rooms below aren’t built around Disney art, but the principles will work for any collection of art, whether it’s Mickey Mouse prints or family photos.

One thing most of these rooms have in common: They go well beyond just hanging a picture at eye level and letting it go at that. They use every inch of wall space.

This first example is a fairly traditional salon-style wall of art. The artwork takes up the whole wall, from floor to ceiling, and is mixed with a few collectibles. The nice thing about this look is that it doesn’t require all of the pieces to be framed the same way or even have much in common. It works because it’s an eclectic mix of things the homeowner presumably loves.

Black paint gives this wall a very different look. Still, the colors and styles of the frames vary. You could easily imagine a Disney collection set against a brightly colored wall — perhaps red or yellow.

A very different approach, and one that would work well with the bright colors of Disney’s palette, is to frame everything in white against a white wall. This really puts the emphasis on the art. If you wanted to do this in a family room or playroom, you could brings the colors into the furniture with, perhaps, red chairs or a brightly colored rug.

Do you have aspiring artists or animators in your house? This design allows you to combine your collection of framed art or prints on canvas with an ever-changing gallery space for your little artists. Simply attach 1x4s to the wall and add metal binder clips at regular intervals. You could use contrasting colors for the wood, or even stain stain it — whatever works in the space.

Hallways and stairwells are some of the most under-utilized gallery spaces. These can be large spaces  ripe for use as a gallery — and in an area of the house that’s more private than, say, the living room. So if you’re not quite ready to open up your Disney obsession to everyone who walks into your house, think about a common area like a hallway near the bedrooms.

Stairwells can be fantastic for displays, but hanging the art can be challenging. This stairwell makes great use of the space, and we love the colors. If you have a lot of reds in your artwork, gray and black can be great complements.