Below are seven shapes that go further than a rectangle at eye level. How to hang is in the manual; this is about what you hang, and where.
1. In a cascade
Along a staircase or down a stairwell, where the wall follows the steps. Also the answer to that one sloping wall under the eaves where nothing square fits.
This works differently from ordinary hanging: the cards follow the slope, so the order and the fixing change. There is a separate step-by-step for it: hanging in a cascade.
2. Around a corner
Nearly every home has a corner that gets in the way — beside a doorframe, around a boxed-in pipe, at the turn of a hallway. An IXXI can go around it, because the cards hang on the wall individually rather than sitting in one rigid panel.
To go beyond the size you started with, add a hanging system with connectors in Small or Large.
3. Split
One design, in two or three pieces with space between them. From every corner of the room you see something different, and the image gets room to breathe.
Particularly good on a long wall, where one large surface starts to feel heavy.
4. As a garland
Cards in a diagonal line, or in an arc along a sloping ceiling. More festive than a rectangle, and ideal above a dining table or in a child’s room.
5. Wall-filling
Because an IXXI is made of loose cards, there is no maximum size. The limit is the wall, not the product. Filling a whole wall is not a special version, then, but simply more rows.
If you are looking for an image that works at that size, start in the wall art collection.
6. As a gallery wall
Cannot choose? You do not have to. Several smaller IXXIs side by side, with space between them, read as one whole — and you can add to it later.
How to combine them without it turning messy is covered in gallery wall.
7. As a room divider
Not on a wall but from the ceiling, on a curtain rail. That separates a work corner from the living room without building a wall, and the light still comes through.
One practical point: in the top row you replace the wall clips with X-connectors, so the rail carries the weight. The rest is in the manual.
Not sure your curtain rail will fit? Take an X-connector to the hardware store and try it there. That is quicker than finding out at home.
Which shape suits your wall?
In short: look at the wall first, not at the image. A long wall wants split or wall-filling, a corner wants going around it, a stairwell wants a cascade. The shape follows the room — you choose the image after that.
And you are not stuck with it. Loose cards mean the same IXXI can hang in a different shape next year.
Why adaptable wall art
You click light, tear-proof cards together with X-connectors and hang them without drilling. You decide the size and the design yourself. That is exactly why these seven shapes are possible: it is not a fixed panel but a set of cards whose shape is yours to decide.
