Gallery Wall

I've been wanting to do a Gallery for a while now since I've been seeing them pop up all over blogland. My walls in my house were so "blah". They are white walls with nothing hanging on them. After reading an encouraging post over at The Nester's blog, I decided to take the plunge and create me a gallery wall. Because I figured if I hated it I could always take it down and start all over again.

A few Saturday's ago, Me and my sidekick, my Mom, was thrift shopping and I found everything I needed to make my Gallery Wall come to life. I found the large picture frame @ Goodwill for $1. I painted the frame blue and chalkboard painted over the existing painting that was in it. Next time I will definitly take apart the painting from the frame. I did kinda a crappy job on the chalkboard paint job. I kept getting it on the frame. I may redo this later on.

I found the 3 frames on the right and the serving tray @ KARM Thrift Store. I got all 3 frames and 2 silver serving platters for $14. I took apart all the picture frames and gave them a good coat of black paint and tossed all the AWFUL prints that were in them. One I put a piece of Amy Butler fabric in, another has a black and white picture of a beach and the 3rd one, I just hung the frame with nothing in it, I may get around to finding something to put in it one day or may not! ha.

The silver tray I just painted with chalk board paint. It really needed 2 coats or more because when I wrote on it with the chalk it peeled off some. I also added 2 small framed photos, one of me and the hubby and one from our wedding our hands to complete the wall.

I hung everything with Command strips. This was the first time I had used them and they seem to work great. I guess time will tell.

I'm really please the way it turned out. I would like to find a long sign the length of the display to put on top of it all. I added a lamp, red flowers in milk glass vases, and a scrap fabric garland around the base of the lamp. It's really made a big impact in our living room. Now that I'm on a roll hopefully I can transform my house more into decorated home!!!