See It on Your Wall
Upload a photo of your wall, place any work from our gallery on it, move and scale it — and judge the size before you decide.
Tell us how wide your sofa (or any object in the photo) really is, then drag the two markers on the photo to span that object. We will show the artwork’s approximate real size in centimetres.
How this artwork size visualizer works
Everything happens on a canvas inside your own browser. The wall photo you choose is drawn as the background layer, the artwork is drawn on top as a second layer, and the slider changes nothing but the on-screen width of that second layer. Your photo is never uploaded, which is why the tool works offline once the page has loaded and why there is no gallery of other people's living rooms anywhere on this site.
Dragging moves the artwork; the slider scales it from roughly eight to seventy per cent of the photo width. The download button exports exactly what you see, at the canvas resolution, so you can put two candidate works side by side in your phone's photo roll and compare them later without re-doing the placement.
Getting a real measurement out of a photograph
A preview that only looks right is half the job. The optional reference step turns the picture into a measuring device. You type in the true width of one object in the frame — a sofa is ideal, because almost nobody misremembers their sofa by more than a few centimetres — then drag the two markers until they span that object. From the pixel distance between the markers and the width you entered, the tool derives a pixels-per-centimetre value for the photo and reports the artwork's approximate real width and height in centimetres as you scale it.
A worked case: a 220 cm sofa spanning 1,100 pixels of a 1,200-pixel-wide canvas gives five pixels per centimetre. An artwork drawn 600 pixels wide is therefore about 120 cm across. Nudge the slider until that number reads close to the size you were considering, and you are looking at a true-to-scale rehearsal rather than a mood board.
Two habits make the number trustworthy. Take the photo square on, standing back far enough that the whole wall fits without tilting the phone up, and place the reference markers on an object in the same plane as the wall — the sofa back, not the coffee table two metres closer to you. Perspective is the main source of error here, and it always exaggerates: an object nearer the lens makes the derived scale too small, so the artwork reads bigger than it will be.
What it cannot do
The preview is flat. It will not show you the shadow a deep box frame throws in afternoon light, it does not simulate glass reflections, and it cannot judge how a warm ivory mount sits against a cool grey wall, because your camera has already decided the white balance for both. Treat it as a size and position rehearsal, and keep the final colour decision for a physical sample or a return policy.
If you have no photo to hand, work from numbers instead: the wall art size calculator derives a recommended width, height and hanging centre from your furniture alone. For which kind of image to try in the first place, the art style quiz narrows four visual languages down to one, and the reason a large, quiet work often beats a busy one on a big wall is explained in negative space in art. Before you buy anything framed and shipped, the practical cautions in collecting minimalist art are worth ten minutes.