It's a common challenge, both in home staging and at home. You have a wall that needs artwork, but the surface area is just too large for one standard-sized picture (say, 2'x3'). If a picture is too small (visually) for the space, it doesn't look right just "floating" there.
What are the solutions? The most obvious is to buy either a larger picture or a grouping of pictures to fit the space. But say you don't want to spend the money, or happen to really love the too-small picture because the colors are perfect for that particular room. Then you have to get creative! Here's one way to work with what you have.
You can add size, or weight, to the picture by turning it into an anchor for a grouping. A low-cost way to do this to to buy two baskets to hang next to the picture, one on top of the other, like I did here in a recent Marin home staging job. The baskets should be similar in color to the frame of the picture so the whole thing looks like one unit, and not three things randomly put together.
If you don't want to use baskets, you can use artwork. Two smaller-sized pieces will work (they can be different sizes from each other), but the frames should be the same material or color as the large framed picture. Also for continuity, the pictures should be similar in theme.
To hang baskets, or anything for that matter, I use drywall hooks. One brand name is Monkey Hook. As many of you know, they are a home stager's secret! I swear by them to hang all pictures, big or small. If you hit a stud, they won't do you any good, but otherwise they beat those time-consuming and drywall-damaging wall anchors.
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