My latest Pinterest project

As I have mentioned before - like most projects, here is another that I will reveal at 95% complete, since   who knows when we will be 100% complete!

I saw this dark wall with white frames on Pinterest here and decided I wanted to do something similar.  I decided the wall connecting our bedroom and master bath would work well - except one challenge was the arch that connected to the wall.

So initially I painted the wall on the left, but it just looked odd.  I was a bit nervous to paint the entire hallway in case it looked like a dark tunnel.  Now that I painted it all, I'm happy I did!  It looks much better with all of it painted than the one wall.  

Then it was time to put many years of picture hanging to use!  I knocked this out in record speed - about an hour!  Which is pretty impressive for me because I lined them up - not just my typical quick eye the spot - nail in the wall, step away and review, add a second nail and reposition- OK, just right approach.  I wanted them to line up, so I had to be a bit more on the precise side.  I did use picture hanging wire to speed up the hanging process.

So now about those green frames in the earlier posts???  I couldn't find the frames I wanted and found these at Michael's in green, so I ended up buying them and spray painting them a sparkling silver.  

Now what I am waiting on would be the pictures to fill the frames, I will be putting some of our maternity pictures in these.  

The boys were funny about these.  First they said, is that mom and dad - where is Carter and Dylan.  Then this morning Carter asked me if that was their "old dad".  

 

Gallery Wall!

Cruise past this extra wide belly to the pics behind it.  We had all these pics on these ledges at our old house.  I left the ledges at the house (good chance they were about to fall any day) and I have been trying to decide what to do with them at the new house.

I saw this arrangement on Pinterest with the horizontal line in the middle and thought it would be fun to try.  So I finally decided maybe a good place for this assortment would be the office.

I tried out a few different arrangements on the floor, then spent some time taping our a grid on the wall.

{and I'm sure many of you are thinking all these frames on the floor is a bad idea with little kids - and yes, I now have to replace the glass in one of these frames. Luckily Carter didn't cut his finger!}

Since I'm not much of a perfectionist, the frames went up pretty quick.  And since I'm not much of a perfectionist, there is definitely more nail holes than nails on that wall.

I wish it didn't take so darn long to sort through old pics, I know I have a lot of fun pics that would have been fun to have on the wall.  Maybe for another project.