I am so hesitant to hang stuff on my walls. I do not have an eye for design and I have a serious aversion to clutter and chaos, but you already knew that, right? So we went over what I wanted. Minimalistic, no frames on the big pictures to keep it simple, I wanted square pictures if possible, and it all had to look intentional. I can't handle the random picture walls and shelves that people have, where they just add every new picture they have taken until it looks like a crazy mess.
We set off to work and came up with a plan that I loved. Jen hoped to come frame shopping with me and to hang shelves and pictures the day that she moved, but that day she was way too busy to come play interior designer. I was on my own, but she gave me a specific plan and I was confident I could carry it out (by assigning it to Seth).
In the end my picture wall isn't exactly like what we discussed (sorry Jen). I wanted the two shelves to touch each other so they would look like one long shelf but the studs in my walls dictated where they ended up. We also talked about centering the whole arrangement over the couch but since I only have a loveseat the pictures dwarfed the couch that way and so we centered everything in the middle of the room, and hopefully one day we will have a full size couch? We had also intended to have the framed pictures on the shelf overlap the pictures on the wall just a little bit, but in the end my OCD dictated that all pictures should be entirely visible. So yes, it has my own not so artsy spin, but I am still super happy with the way it looks. After 6 1/2 years in our house, there is finally evidence that we live here. Hooray!
Thanks Jen for taking time out your crazy last week here to help me get this done. Now can you come back and make me curtains and pillows and add all your other creative touches to my lifeless house?
Oh, and since the two shelves ended up with space between them, Seth wants to fill that space under Alex's picture with a J or something cutesy and maybe some candles or something on the shelves. Any opinions on that? Of course I am nervous to add anything else.
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I love it! WIsh Jen could have stopped by my house and added some touches. I know nothing about interior design.
I love what you've got and say go with it. I like the idea of adding a J between the two shelves but I don't think I'd add anything to the shelves, although maybe it would like nice.
Glad I could be so helpful. :)
WOW!! I am impressed! They look great. But you know--when you have 18 grandchildren and want their pictures up, you end up with lots of crazy pictures with no reason why they went where they did, and you can't tell what color your refrigerator is because of all the pictures and homemade (by 3 year olds) artwork, and every time you look at the pictures and artwork, your heartstrings ache to be with the kids in the pictures. Which brings me to this--how about some pictures, especially family pics. Chloe's not even in the one of your family that's hanging on my wall!
Those pictures of your family are really great! Love the poses and the backgounds.
Oh, my gosh!!! I love it, I love it, I love it! Phewey if it didn't turn out exactly like we planned. It's just what we found to work from, but I think your own spin turned out perfectly for the situation. I'm digging the idea of a big "J" in between the shelves. They have really cool wall letters at Hobby Lobby.
Now I'm totally jealous of this. I've NEVER had a wall large enough to pull something like this off. My foyer ledges are the closest I've gotten, and that wall was only about 4 feet wide. Now my goal is to search for a home with a huge wall to copy this idea;)
I'm so glad you whipped your butt into gear to actually get these hung so quickly. It only took how long? Ummm, 8 MONTHS!!!! For shame!
I love it! It looks great, and the "J" sounds perfect! :)
It looks great. Those are such amazing pictures and they really look good the way you have them grouped together like that.
I also like the idea of the letter J in between. I wouldn't add more than that to it but I do think that would look great.
Cute. And you gave me a wonderful idea for how to use my shelves in my house, if you don't mind me copying. I think a j would be cute, but I'm also not much of a decorator myself.
That really does look great! Those are fabulous pictures and you did an awesome job arranging them. And it is definitely most important that you like it since you will be the one looking at it the most!
CUTE! CUTE! CUTE!
I love the idea of a J. I also love that my brother thought of that...
I LOVE the whole wall, it looks so good!! I need some good pics like that taken of my fam...
That whole room just looks so, so, so calm! Love the color of the wall. Love the arrangement on the wall! I am the clutter queen, but that is totally not my nature. Not sure where it came from. But I love neat. I love tidy. So I'm always living in contradiction to who I really am. (Hmmmm no wonder I have weight issues.) This looks just perfect!
Looks awesome Julie! Are those printed on Canvas? And you painted, right? Be careful...its addicting! (: Love it!
I love the un-framed pictures! I may have to do that in my house somewhere. And I hate clutter too, but somehow I still end up with it, I guess I just need to un decorate so there isn't as much stuff.
Heather, Those are not on canvas. They are called floatwraps and the print feels almost rubbery. They are only mounted by a small piece of foam on the back so the picture floats away from the wall. It looks cooler in person and was cheaper than canvas. And no I didn't paint. After 6 1/2 years I desperately need to repaint those walls so I am glad it doesn't show in the pictures.
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