Picture Wall

I.LOVE.PICTURE.WALLS!

No matter where we moved, I knew that we were going to have a picture wall somewhere! Luckily, our new apartment had the perfect place for one: behind our couch! I can never decide on one picture, so it's only natural that I would want a huge wall of a ton of pictures! I've been collecting inspiration pictures for what seems like forever, here are a few:

My favorite bloggers at Young House Love have this adorable picture wall in their little girl Clara's nursery. LOVE!







After gathering inspiration pictures, I had to decide how I wanted my picture wall to look. Straight, and grid-like, or random and funky? I decided to go the random and funky route because, let's be honest, it was a lot less work! I HATE measuring and using a level to hang pictures, so by doing it this way, I was able to hang it however I pleased! The next decision I had to make was the color and style of the frames. I love the look of using different colors and styles of frames in one picture wall, but I decided to use all black frames to tie in the black dresser that houses our TV (and all of Joe's clothes.) I did change it up a little bit and used some ivory mattes, and some bright white mattes (yeah, yeah, I'm crazy like that!)

I already had a black frame of four Charleston pictures I took on a past trip, so that was my starting off point. Joe and I went to Ikea this past Friday, and I may or may not have laid out an entire grouping of frames on the floor of the picture frame aisle. He was a little embarrassed, but hey, it got the job done! I got 6 black (super cheap) Ribba frames in different sizes, and one other frame that I can't remember the name of. If you have an Ikea near you: run, don't walk and get you some frames (you're going to hear me say this a lot!) When I got home, I ordered the wedding pictures I wanted to put in them on Snapfish, and got to work finalizing my plan!

I was a super dork, and laid all of the frames out on my bed just like I did in the Ikea aisle.


Then I was an even bigger dork, and drew it out on a piece of paper so I would know what I was doing once it came time to hang the frames. It was a HUGE help!


Then TA DA! It was a cinch to hang them! Love, love, love how it turned out! It's exactly what I wanted! Forgot to mention the big blue "F": that was a wooden letter from Hobby Lobby that I spray painted with my favorite blue spray paint. Told you it's my new best friend! I just stuck that sucker up with some velcro strips!




I have some other really great ideas to fill up big empty walls: coming soon! I sure wish I had enough walls to do them all! :)