Gallery Wall
2012
Last year a quick run into our local thrift store had me leaving with one of the greatest treasures I have ever scored, dozens of brand new, large, white picture frames for just under $2.50 each. They all had the original price tags on them, from a local photo store, and had been selling for $40-$60 each.
Those frames were the inspiration for our gallery wall, which is in our dining room. I love the unity of white frames. The smaller white frames have been picked up at various places over the years.
The pictures will change, but I thought I would show you what we have on our gallery wall right now. To give you an idea of scale the large square frames are 14×14 with 12×12 prints in them.
{Starting on the top left:}picture of Judah and Wesley when they were little, a tea towel with the year 1985 on it*, another of Judah and Wes, Wesley and 3 Nigerian friends
{bottom left} Wesley, Judah and me, Paul and the boys, Judah
*My mum started collecting calendar tea towels from the year I was born until the year I got married. She gave them to me when we got married. Since we were both born in 1985 I thought it would be fun to frame this one. I keep thinking about doing a cross stitch heart around our birthdays.
{top left} Judah’s finger painting, World map, picture of dandelion weeds, Judah’s picture of Pharoh and the Superhero – his first ‘real’ picture
{bottom left} oval framed picture of women preparing a meal in Nigeria, Wesley’s finger painting, picture of Judah and Wes
Picture of “In This House We...”, Judah’s knees, skeletal print found on a free printing site {I can’t remember where!! Anyone recognize it?}, old military prints {that were cards Paul sent me before we were married} with the center print being a rose on Paul’s military boots.
A frame was recently removed from beside the skeleton picture and hasn’t yet been replaced, but shall be soon.
I hesitated sharing this for so long because I thought it wasn’t right. It wasn’t quirky enough. It was too quirky. It looked too uniform. It looked too messy. But then I realized this is us. It is our heart, our loves, on our wall. Each of the 19 images has a special reason to be up there on the wall and it just makes me so happy to look at it every day!
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I love love love this! We do not have a lot of pictures hanging in our house but looking at this I think I need to remedy that. Maybe something on the wall going up the stairs….
Thanks so much for sharing! I don't think that you could go wrong – it will always be just quirky enough and perfectly uniform/unmatched/messy/tidy enough as long as you keep it you.
I fully agree with you about not going wrong … but it is much harder to convince oneself of that when publicly sharing something
And stairs are a great place to hang them! Do you have a Costco membership? They've got the best prices for printing large prints
I think the thing that makes homes so fun and wonderful is that each reflects the people that live there and so none are alike…and that's why we love to go visit people…it shows us things about them and their interests, etc that we'd never know just chatting over coffee. Love this!
You are right – homes really do reflect those that live there!!
We have a lot of nail holes in the wall to prove that 
It's really only been the past year that our home has become much more "us" … it took a couple years to figure things out