After a year and a half, it was great to finally put the first holes in our living rooms walls (actually we put way more than we intended), and in our round about way, ended up with this gallery wall:
For weeks we had every frame in our house laid out in various configurations on our living room floor. That still didn’t keep us from deciding on an arrangement, hanging it all up, taking one look at it, and not liking it. I forgot to snap a picture, but the first configuration had two different ledges with pictures propped on them and 5 frames hung on the wall – that’s a lot of holes. Taking all of it down and seeing all those holes was frustrating, but luckily this new configuration covers all but two of the holes. One of these days we might get around to patching up the two that still show, but I suspect we’ll forget they are even there.
The prints are from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. They were originally in our dining room:
but I wasn’t loving the way they looked in there. I am liking them in the living room, though. I really like the mix of colors with our throw pillows and area rug. It is a simpler arrangement than I was originally going for, but I found using more frames looked too busy.
Since these were free to print, they will likely change one of these days, but for now I think they will stay. And since I stole them out of our dining room frames, I will be searching for new prints in there and will of course be sharing when I find them.
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Hi Jena,
Just popping over from The Inspired Room. It is great to see your gallery wall. Mine is #10.
Fondly,
Glenda
Gg – Notes on the Journey
PS. Thanks for the source for free prints.
Popped in from the Inspired Room gallery party! What a wonderfully clean and fresh look! Love those prints!
Lovely soft colours. I’m visiting from The Inspired Room’s gallery party too. Off now to check out the NY public library… thank you for the inspiration! J.
Love this so much! It’s so clean and pretty :)
Gorgeous room! I love the mix of white with pops of color!!!
Love the lamps in your space and I loooove that sofa how on earth do you keep it so nice?!
Hi Jena
Well done with your Gallery Wall.As you will well know it can be a challenging process with lots of decisions that need to be made. For anyone who is thinking of creating their own gallery or photo wall in there home, especially first timers, this list of 7 things to consider may be useful
http://www.fridgi.us/photo-wall/7-things-to-consider
Regards
Ian
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Thanks for sharing! Fantastic living room, I can’t wait to view others such as this. I’m trying to gather some inspiration for our living room furniture. We are looking at buying furniture from http://www.la-z-boy.com/orlando/ as we enjoy the quality and comfort of la-z-boy furniture. I think we can get away with a very contemporary look.
I really love your gallery, and I particularly like the prints you selected. Do you happen to remember the names of the prints. I would love to look them up on the NYPL Gallery. Thanks so much!