Welcome to Will It Look Good Over The Sofa's blog!

Welcome to Will It Look Good Over The Sofa’s first monthly blog! Since I’m a fine art photographer who loves home decor, I thought it would be a great idea to create a blog (and website) where the two could meet.

If you’ve just bought a new home and you’re looking for some affordable art for the walls, if you’re a mom looking for kid’s room art (like our great alphabet art collection), or you’ve got an office to decorate, then this is the blog for you.

Shop our website, too - www.WillItLookGoodOverTheSofa.com where you’ll find lots of framed art and unframed art. Our online photo gallery features great affordable fine art photos by a variety of photographers in styles from abstract to photojournalistic.

And a variety of subjects, too – if you love flower photography or photographs of Italy, they’re here! They’re all original high end digital prints (or giclee prints as we’ve learned from the French), and they’re all signed by the artists and are limited editions.

If you’d like to see what your photo would look like in a room in your home, visit our new friends at www.DesignbyPhoto.com. Of if you’re not sure about how to hang your photograph (most of us hang our art WAY too high!), check out some of our articles on the Will It Look Good Over The Sofa website. There’s a great one on hanging art. (Also some great ones on collecting art, art for kid’s rooms, etc.)

Our blog also features a “Photo Of The Month.” This month's photo is "Juliet's Balcony." Yes, it's that famous balcony in Verona, Italy. Romeo, Romeo, where art thou? Each month we will highlight one of our photographs and 5% of the profits will go to help a charitable organization. This month the proceeds will benefit the Trickle Up Program.

The Trickle Up Program helps the world’s poorest people take the first steps out of poverty by providing seed capital and business training so they can launch their own small businesses.

Since it’s close to Valentine’s Day and we’ve got red on our minds, think about painting a wall red or hanging some art with red in it. In a study recently cited in the New York Times, office workers who were selected for their abilities to focus on their jobs regardless of their surroundings thrived the most in red rooms! Subjects assigned to plain white rooms with no splash of color or Matisse’s on the walls, did the poorest. So invigorate yourself from the winter doldrums by putting some red in your life!