#GHOSTLAB EASY GALLERY HOW TO#
#GHOSTLAB EASY GALLERY TRIAL#

11- Frame from thrift store, painted gold.10- IKEA frame I already owned, added swatch of fabric.9- Frame I owned, painted and added scrapbook paper and vinyl feather cut with my Silhouette.7- $2 piece of wood from Michael’s, painted, number added using stencil made with my Silhouette.6- Frame I owned, painted and added scrapbook paper and vinyl arrow cut with my Silhouette machine.3- Frame I owned, painted and added swatch of fabric.2- Frame I owned, painted and added scrapbook paper banner.Once I’ve exhausted all of the options I have in my house, I go in search of pieces to fill in the gaps. I’ve listed the source for each of the items I ended up with below. Sometimes I have to paint or otherwise alter to the frame. I have a box of frames that I’m not currently using, so I’ll go through and pull out anything I think might work. Paying attention to what was inside the frames helped to give me ideas fo things I might like to include in my own gallery, too. My “likes” are certainly not the “right answers” if we’re equating this to test taking, but as you start to look at gallery wall after gallery wall, I think you’ll find yourself being drawn to certain types, whether they’re the same type as mine or not.įollow Abby Just a Girl and Her Blog’s board Gallery Walls 2. I liked when there was a consistent color scheme, and I really liked when that color scheme included metallics. (Though I have seen many of those that are gorgeous as well.) Many of the ones I was drawn to, for example, mixed different types of frames and shapes and media– round and square and rectangle and wide frames and narrow frames and large pieces and small pieces and mirrors and photographs and art and objects– rather than all of the same type of frame with the same type of media. While I did this, I made note of the things I was drawn to in the gallery walls I liked. I scoured Pinterest and Google image search and the #gallerywalls hashtag on Instagram. Why yes, I am a big huge nerd at heart, so for that reason, I kind of approached my gallery wall the same way I would approach a test– I studied.

#GHOSTLAB EASY GALLERY HOW TO#

How to Design and Create an Easy Gallery Wall 1. Easy Gallery Walls: Frequently Asked Questions.How to Design and Create an Easy Gallery Wall.The more work I do on our house, though, the more I find myself going through the same steps over and over and the easier it becomes, so I thought I’d share my little process with you in case you’re like me and sometimes don’t know what in the world to do with a blank space.

It’s a long (and sometimes painful– mostly for Donnie 🙂 ) process.

#GHOSTLAB EASY GALLERY TRIAL#

I go through lots of trial and error before I land on something I like, and even then I often end up making changes down the road. I often have to physically try things in a space to figure out if they work or not (the people at the returns counter know me by name 😉 ). Why can’t I be like that?”Īnd while I’m sure there are plenty of talented people out there in blogland who can look at a space and immediately envision the perfect way to decorate it, I am not one of them. I almost titled this post “Why Decorating Is Hard for Me and Why I Love It Anyway.” I think it’s easy to look around at blogs or Pinterest and think, “Everything just comes so naturally to all of these people. It went from dark and drab to light and bright! Part of that transformation was a new gallery wall in the main part of the stairwell, and I wanted to share the simple way we put it together. Recently I shared our stairwell and small hallway transformation.

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