A quiet window sits between your order and the courier. Here is exactly what happens in it, and why the unboxing video matters more than any promise we could print.

Lay the arrangement on the floor, cut paper templates, and keep the gaps even. A gallery wall is mostly arithmetic and masking tape — the drilling is the last five minutes.

Brick, concrete and hollow partition walls each want a different fixing. Two hooks beat one from 11x14 inches upward, and nothing should hang directly above a bed.

Glass is clearer and heavier. Acrylic is lighter, safer around children, and survives the courier better. Neither is the better choice in the abstract — it depends on the wall and the room.

The commonest way a frame disappoints is arithmetic, not quality. A frame sold as 11x14 inches holds an 8x10 print once the mat is in place — and both figures belong on the page.