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So I was lying in bed a couple weeks ago trying to decide what to do with the hallway. We had just painted it (we paint a lot) and, in our neverending effort to gain more space in our not to terribly huge house, we hung a really cool shelf thing on one wall to hold all our herbs that we pick and dry. I had a dry erase board for the kids on the other wall, on the bottom half, but I wanted to do family pictures above that.
So while lying in bed this picture popped into my head of a tree with branches entertwining around family pictures. This is what I came up with.
It was really very easy. I taped some paper to the wall where I thought I may like pictures. Then I took some chalk and outlined a tree. Then I got some black wall paint (yes, we have some black walls in the house too) and I just kind of freehanded the tree using the chalk outline as a guide. It didn't take long at all. Maybe a couple hours. Of the whole project though taking the pictures, printing them out and getting them in frames (some of which I had to spray black too) was by far the hardest and most time consuming part.
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| My Paper "pictures" and chalk outline |
I put a picture of Charlie and I at the top. Around that I put pictures of us holding each of the kids as babies, then on the bottom I did recent a picture of each kid, that I can switch out as they grow. If I had more room (or used smaller pictures) I would have loved to do pregnancy pictures too. I'll have to reassess the layout if (Lord willing when) we have more kids!
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| A view from the other side (yes, that is Piper holding a chicken, Lele) |
I could have made the tree trunk go down lower, but my original intent was to have a bunch of roots down there spreading out across the wall. Then after I painted it on I thought roots (and more branches, which I had also intended to do) may be too 'busy'.
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| This is a view down the hall (dry erase board on the bottom left, herb storage right) |
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| This is our cool dry herb storage! We haven't put all the herbs in there yet but it holds our recycled jars nicely! |
Fabulous. Really love it. Looks great with the herb storage and dry erase board. Ingenious - the dry erase board idea.
ReplyDeleteWanna come and decorate my house?
Hi Kelley!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love your wall so much. It is incredible. I have a wall of fame too with only black frames, although it is horribly dated.
I still think of you and wish you and your wonderful family all the best.
Michele in Georgia
Thanks guys! It was just SO easy to do. I actually wasn't even going to blog about it but I posted the picture on my facebook page and got like 50 responses and then people telling me it needed to be on pinterest and that I needed to blog about it so that they could pin it (because I didn't have a pinterest). So I was like . . . OK, LOL!! I actually just joined pinterest, I think that pushed me over the edge (I had been resisting for a while) hopefully it can help me be more organized instead of having a million bookmarks and a million tabs opened . . . We'll see ;0)
ReplyDeleteOh and Michele, I keep the old pictures under the new ones, and for this wall, I just went outside for like 1/2 hr with the kids and took pictures of them with my iphone, and then spent another 1/2 hr editing them and then printing them out (had some printing issues that took it longer).
This is an amazing diy project! I'm working on a post about ideas for displaying family photos. Can I link to you and use one photo for inspiration? I will be posting this on www.hobbiesonabudget.com if it's ok with you!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I've been without Internet for several days. I just wanted to say that I'm happy for you to use my picture and link to my post here!
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