The wall a visitor sees in the first three seconds tells them what kind of home this is. Six entryway compositions — single anchor, vertical portrait, quiet still life, gallery cluster, large-scale landscape, and intimate Cassatt — and the rules that hold each one together.

The wall above the sofa breaks more living rooms than any other. Six rules — width, height, anchor, orientation, colour temperature, and framing — and the paintings that prove each one.

An engineer who became a sculptor, then a sculptor who became a draughtsman in colour. Three rules — balance, colour, movement — carried Calder's whole career.

Classical art prints that hold a long living room wall — Caravaggio, Sargent, Vermeer, Whistler. With size and frame brief.

Ten curator-tested ways to decorate a large blank wall — single oversized prints, salon walls, triptychs, diptychs, leaning consoles, and minimalism done right.