How to create a travel print gallery wall

〡 21 Oct, 2026
〡 by Neil Mann

A travel print gallery wall is one of the easiest ways to make a room feel personal. Instead of one picture, you get a story: the places you’ve been, the places you love and the places still on your list. Here’s how to plan one that looks considered rather than cluttered.

1. Choose a theme that ties it together

The best gallery walls have one idea running through them. Pick one and every print you add will make sense next to the others.

One region: a Lake District wall with Windermere, Ambleside, Grasmere and Hawkshead.
One country: Greece, from Athens to Santorini, or Spain, from Córdoba to San Sebastián.
Your travel story: every place you’ve visited together, in the order you went.
Home and away: an illustrated map of your county in the middle, surrounded by your favourite holiday spots.

Not sure where to start? Our Gallery Wall collections group designs that already work together, including Scotland, Yorkshire, Italy, Wales, Cornwall, Devon and the Lake District.

2. Pick one style and stick to it

Our designs come in two looks: the bordered travel print and the full-bleed travel poster. Either works, but choosing one style for the whole wall keeps it calm and cohesive. Mixing styles can work in a looser, eclectic layout, as long as the colour palette repeats.

3. Choose a layout

Grid: 4, 6 or 9 identical frames in neat rows. Clean and modern, ideal for hallways and above beds.
Row: three frames in a line above a sofa, sideboard or headboard. The simplest gallery wall there is.
Salon style: mixed sizes clustered around one large centrepiece. Relaxed and collected over time.
Staircase: follow the angle of the stairs, keeping the bottom edges in a rising line.

4. Get the sizes and spacing right

Leave 5–8 cm between frames. Any wider and the prints stop reading as one group.
Hang the centre of the group at roughly 145–150 cm from the floor, about eye level.
Above a sofa, leave 20–25 cm between the sofa back and the bottom of the frames.
Aim for the whole arrangement to be about two-thirds the width of the furniture below it.

Tip: cut paper templates the size of each frame and tape them to the wall first. It takes ten minutes and saves a lot of filler.

For a full step-by-step hanging guide, see How to Create the Perfect Gallery Wall with Travel Prints.

5. Frame for the room

Natural oak suits coastal and Scandi rooms, black frames give a gallery feel, and white frames brighten a small hallway. All of our prints are available framed or unframed, so you can match frames you already own.

6. Make it personal

Every NQ Media Designs print can be personalised free with names, dates or a short message, which turns a gallery wall into a family timeline: “Our honeymoon · Santorini · 2019”, “First family holiday · Windermere · 2022”.