You all are seriously the best – you gave me such great ideas and suggestions for the stairwell wall (for the original post, click here). After tinkering a bit, here’s the finished – no, really finished – wall:
Nailed it!
Here’s what I did: I listened to you. Here’s what you suggested:
1. Add letters to the art; don’t just use the posters.
2. Use smaller art, rather than the big poster which could not be adjusted in its position on the wall.
3. Use a combination of things you love – letters, art, etc.
4. Use more color than just black and white frames.
Done! What I did was listen to your advice and my own heart – I found pieces I loved and wanted to see each day.
My daughter and I made this burlap canvas sign when we hosted the Hometalk event at Michaels.
Beneath it is art my son made in nursery school:
Under that is my favorite mother’s day card ever (if you want to see how I painted the back of the frame to fit the oddly shaped art, see this post):
Then I got into letters and numbers. I added back in the Cs that I’ve collected – one from a thrift store and one from HomeGoods (the third one didn’t make the cut):
The 7 tile is from Southern Accents Architectural Antiques – it’s a tile from an old building. And 7 is my favorite number (along with multiples of 7, too).
The ampersand is from a crafts store, framed with a thrift store frame (99 cents!) that was already painted teal. I may decide to paint or cover the ampersand in fabric; it blends with the wall a bit too much and makes it hard to see.
My beautiful friend Ellen gave me this card during my big decision-making process. I framed it in another thrift store, 99-cent, frame. It makes me happy:
I kept the butterfly art, but moved the big Trees poster upstairs.
Framed sage advice, from a fortune cookie:
“More art in your life at this time will help you feel better.” I mean, when would it not??
What makes me feel better is that I finally love this wall.
It has letters, numbers, an odd number of things, art, color, happiness.
I wish I could tell you that I carefully measured and planned where to put everything, but I didn’t.
To put it together, I just put some things I loved on the floor and followed my gut on where to put them. I ended up only changing the location of one thing (the number tile). It helps to have a helper (in my case, my daughter) hold things up so you can step back and see how they look. I wanted to create a collected, eclectic look, so I didn’t want it to look too “planned” or symmetrical.
What do you think? Thank you for all your help!
perfect!
Thanks!! Thank you for your help!!
Looks super. Like the way you have blues going all through your grouping.
Thanks! I have a thing for blue and green, as you know. Thanks, friend!