I stressed over this gallery wall for weeks. After I gathered all the pieces for it, I finally had it all laying out on the floor in the pattern I wanted it on the wall. Matt walked by and said, "Hm...maybe you should take on longer and not go down as far on the wall." Fail. Long story short, I redid and rearranged this wall about a million times. My indecisiveness is sickening.
Not only was I deathly afraid of putting a bunch of nail holes in our beautiful freshly fixed and painted walls (we patched up every single nail hole and blemish on the walls and painted before we moved in), but I am married to a wall-hanging perfectionist. Who knew? I grew up in a house where we just picked where we wanted something and then nailed it on the wall. My husband has a different story. Any time we hang anything on our walls, the measuring tape, pencil, and levels come out (yes I said levelssss...one size just won't do). Imagine my nerves when I looked at my abundant gallery wall draft on the floor and all of his tools I was going to have to use. I will also add that while I got all the pieces on the wall, he laid on the couch and fell in and out of peaceful slumber while watching TV. This was MY project and I made the mistake of saying I could do it all by myself. Whoops.
First, Matt had to give me a tutorial on how to space every single piece. I had to measure how far apart they were, then measure on the back how far down and far in the hanging hardware was on each frame before I could even get it on the wall. We had to mark on the walls how far up and how far across the whole thing would be. I had to do this with every single piece. Just thinking about me doing all that makes me cringe. I am so glad it's done :). You may not believe me, but it took me all of 2 hours to get this whole thing done (and leveled one last time).
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Here is the only picture with the flash on...it shows off the glitter on the "D" quite nicely :) |
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Of course I used a lot of pictures from our wedding and engagement photos...I am so in love with all of those pictures. The leaves are from our neighborhood when I took Jax on a walk one day when the leaves first started turning. I ironed them into wax paper so they'd keep and then framed them. I love Fall leaves.  An up-close shot of my prized "D". I got the letter at Michael's and it was just plain white. I bought a couple different glitter craft paints and some cheap brushes. I thought it would go on and look like this in one coat...WRONG! I applied about 21 different coats (no joke) for a couple days until it got to this point. Guess I learned my lesson on that one. |
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Another leaf from our walk, family pictures (the one with the glare is of Matt and I, his mom, and his brother's family at our wedding and the one on the top is of Matt and I and my parents at our wedding), a box with the numbers "18" which I also painted, and the frame with side-by-side pictures is a picture of Matt's mom and dad at their wedding and a picture of us at our wedding. We are doing a similar pose. It's super cute and I love it. |
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