When we move into our house, we couldn’t put anything up on the walls. We had plenty of pictures, I just couldn’t decide how I wanted everything to go up. We lived in our house without anything on the walls for quite a while until I begged my family for some help. This is the wall we started with
I gave my family some options to choose from an I did the popular vote. I rearrange a ton of different possibilities that seemed okay, these are just a few
This ended up the winner.
But I still wasn’t happy with it. I’m not a huge fan of organized and boring, so I changed it up a bit lot. My new layout might seem very chaotic and unorganized to some, but for me, it’s perfect an I absolutely love it.
My first change was the color of the frames – from black to white. My original plan was to use white frames with different color mattes, but in the end I just went with all white – white frames, white mattes. We added the mirror to the wall – got it at a garage sale (without the frame) for $1!! Grant made the frame and I painted it white to match.
We started our layout with the console table (made by Grant), centered the mirror above it, then added the pictures randomly around it. This is much more my style – random and sporadic! There are no tips or tricks to this layout. The only thing I can say about it is I didn’t want the pictures to line up or seem organized much at all. There are a few that are lined up and even with each other, but for the most part, they are all randomly set.
We added a lot more pictures than what we had up previously, and I love the addition of the shelf (made by Grant) under the thermostat. It’s a lot easier to cover it up or make it blend it when I put décor on the shelf.
This wall is part of a vaulted ceiling, so it goes up a lot higher than this and I’m tempted to keep going up with the pictures, but Grant thinks this is plenty. He might be right, but I may try to add one or two more! That picture in the middle of the console table was actually suppose to be on the wall, Grant won that battle.
And, because I love before-and-after’s, here you go
