The Great Wall of Frames: Part Two

It is finished!

So a few weeks back I mentioned that Mary and I were working on a wall of frames like the one the Petersik's over at Young House Love did in their house. You can check their beautiful wall out here. Up until a few short days ago, this is what our hallway looked like.

Pretty bland, huh?

So with the frame wall inspiration fresh in our minds we got to work. Read about how we collected the frames and the things inside them here .

Then it was time to hang everything. This is the tricky part. We knew we wanted the arrangement to be semi-random. I say semi-random because there is a fine line between organized randomness and throwing caution to the wind. Guess which side of the line we hang out on.

We decided the best way to get the semi-random look we were going for was to lay the frames out on the floor in front of the wall.

That way we could see the arrangement before we made 100 little holes in the wall. We find the best way to start is in the middle. We knew we wanted this baby front and center to pay homage to the bloggers who inspired us.

Once we knew where we wanted the first frame to go it was easy to build out. For us, it's not a big deal if the space between frames isn't the same all the way around. That's what gives it that semi-random look.

Once we had the arrangement exactly how we wanted it (after moving things around, taking a step back to look, hating it, moving things around again, rinse and repeat) it was time to start hammering.

We hung the Petersiks first and worked our way out. Here's what it looked like after a little progress.

About half an hour later we had this.

Cue the whomp whoooooomp. Nothing is worse than a crooked picture. Except maybe 25 crooked pictures. We knew we could not live with a crooked gallery for long so we had to do something.

Well hello double sided mounting tape! What a lifesaver! All we had to do was whip out the old level and apply a small piece of mounting tape to the back side of the bottom of each frame and presto chango, we had this beauty!

Don't mind the crappy lighting/picture taking skills. It was all Mary. Just kidding, it was me. But you get the point, right? We love it. And since taking the picture above I've already found another cute addition. That's the great thing about a wall of frames like this one, you can add frames, remove frames or change things out to keep it looking fresh. Trust me when I say my picture does the wall no justice. It really adds a lot to the space! Ok, I'm done gushing about it now.