Art & Home Decor Articles

Edward Hopper: The Artist Who Captures Quiet Moments in Modern Life

Discover the timeless appeal of Edward Hopper’s atmospheric artwork and learn how licensed Hopper pieces can add calm, elegance, and cinematic beauty to modern Singapore interiors.

Keith Haring: The Street Art Pioneer Who Brings Energy Into Modern Spaces

Discover why Keith Haring’s joyful street-art style remains a favourite in Singapore and how licensed Haring artwork can energise modern homes and creative spaces.

Andy Warhol: The Pop Art Icon Who Transformed Modern Interiors

Discover why Andy Warhol remains one of the world’s most iconic artists and how his vibrant Pop Art can transform modern homes in Singapore. Learn how to style licensed Warhol artwork and bring bold colour and culture into your space.

How to Style a Luxurious Home

The key to create a lasting, positive first impression on your guests with your house is to dress up your living room. By putting in effort to design a stylish, luxurious space, you’re bound to amaze anyone who steps foot into your abode. If you’re inspired by the hotels and resorts you’ve patronized while globe-trotting, this article is for you.

Avoid Expensive Art Regrets with These Tips

The big blank wall in your new home is haunting you. There are various ways to fill up an empty canvas - do you buy a singular, prominent painting, or purchase a placeholder that can be changed every few months, or create a mixed media gallery wall? Indecision causes procrastination, and perhaps after shopping around for quite a bit, you can't seem to commit to anything.

The Most Versatile Decorative Item You Need

Trays are the most versatile decorative in your home accessories arsenal. They come in multiple colours, shapes, sizes, styles and forms that can organize your items and elevate your style. When hosting an afternoon tea with your girlfriends or dinner drinks with guests, beautiful trays come in handy for service and cleaning. If you’re still doubtful of how a decorative tray can change your life, read on for Picket&Rail’s foolproof styling tips below!

Ways To Remove Candle Wax That Works

To remove the waxy mess, you don't need special tools or lots of time. Patience and a kitchen goes a long way. Here are 4 methods to remove candle wax that will surely work, for jars of all shapes and sizes.

Paraffin Wax Candles Endangers Your Family's Health

At Picket&Rail Lifestyle, our candles are made with 100% soy wax and we wear it with pride. With more research into paraffin wax as of late, it is obvious why people are making the switch to soy, especially if you have young, growing children at home. The differences between these two materials are worlds apart!

Ten Random Facts About Hourglasses

This trendy item has in fact been with us for centuries and have a colourful place in human history. So, here are ten random facts about hourglasses that will surprise and excite you to own one!

Arranging And Hanging Wall Art & Paintings in Your Home

There is an art to hanging artwork on your wall. This knowledge might have been exclusive to the art industry, but with the popularity of interior design, this knowledge is now commonplace. To simplify the process, we have summarised our points into a simple infographic for easy reference but you can read more about the explanations and the tricks our mind plays on us below! These guidelines are pretty simple to follow and amend. Do walk around your home to see if they obey these rules. This would sharpen your art sense too whenever you're out dining in restaurants or browsing an art gallery.

How Art at Home Speeds Children's Development

Interacting with art expands a child’s ability to comprehend the world around them, and provides a new set of skills for self-expression and communication. Art helps to develop the right side of the brain, it also cultivates important skills that benefit a child’s development. But art goes far beyond the tangible statistics measured by studies — it can become a pivotal mode of uninhibited self-expression for your child. Art matters the same way language matters — or the way breathing matters! Therefore, hanging wall art can be your child’s first engagement into the creative arts that accompany a laundry list of benefits.

Why Wall Art Deserves a Place in Your Home

Visiting a museum, living artistic experiences or taking part in a creative activity is beneficial to your personal psychological and physical wealth. But what is the use of having art around us in everyday life, in our home? The benefits are many and often they can be enjoyed in a seemingly passive way, almost by an osmotic process by which art comes into our minds and our lives. The choice of a piece of art to be kept at home is linked to a chemical process similar to the early stages of falling in love: the aesthetic sense that strikes us activates the “preferences” and personal taste. Our point of view is put at the center of our choice, and this results in immediate benefits, particularly on our decision-making attitudes.

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