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Western Wall Art for the Bedroom: Calm Prints for Over the Bed and Dresser

Ten western prints soft enough to wake up to, and the sizes and frame colors that fit over a bed, a dresser or a nightstand.

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Moonlight Trail art: lone saddled bay horse walking a desert trail under a full moon, mesas in deep blue night, framed and hanging in a styled room

Keep it calm

A bedroom wants western art with low light and slow subjects. Moonlight Trail is a riderless horse walking under a full moon in silver and deep blue. Keeper of the Dusk is a great horned owl on a fence post at twilight. Rain Check watches rain fall over a corral from under a porch roof. For a black and white room, Soft Hold shows two horses leaning close.

Where each size goes

  • Over the headboard: a landscape print at 24x36 or 20x30, like Welcome to the West or Blue Mist Motel.
  • Over a dresser: 16x20 or 18x24, with the bottom edge 8 to 10 in above the top.
  • Over a nightstand: 12x18 or 11x14, one on each side for a matched look.

Frames for a restful room

Walnut brings out the brown horse against the blue in Moonlight Trail and warms the gold light on the owl. Black gives night skies a cleaner, modern edge. A white mat opens up dark prints like The Wanderer in a small room.

Questions and answers

What size western print goes over a queen bed?

A landscape print at 24x36 or 20x30 spans the wall over a queen bed well. Hang the bottom edge 8 to 10 in above the headboard.

Is dark western art too heavy for a bedroom?

Not if the room has light walls or bedding. Deep blue and green prints feel restful at night, and a white mat adds breathing room around them.