Even though my blog has been admittedly slow, my instagram feed never is. It’s definitely my favorite form of social media. It allows me to stay in contact with everyone and even acts as a mini-blog, documenting the things I’m working on and loving on.
If you follow along with me, you probably saw that I started making over our bedroom {for the millionth time} almost a year ago. The reason for it? Well there’s two reasons actually…
1) I l-o-v-e to rearrange and redecorate. It’s a problem, but I’m confident I’m not the only blogger who suffers from this affliction. ;) I remember, as a kid, I was constantly rearranging my bedroom furniture all. the. time. I love to switch things up and gain new perspective on a space.
And most importantly, 2) our bedroom has never felt “right” to me. I’ve switched things up quite a few times, and afterwards I always feel a little better, but I’m never 100% about the space. Having an unsettled master bedroom is not ideal. It’s the space you are supposed to retreat to...a place to quiet your mind and relax. Our bedroom does nothing of the sort for me because when I’m in there, I’m constantly brainstorming about a space that will finally feel finished.
I took a few leaps in the right direction quite some time ago when I swapped out our furniture, installed my DIY lucite curtain rods and went darker on the walls.
When I completed that painting project, hubby removed our mounted TV {which I hated due to it’s placement}, and I decided the TV would live on our long dresser. Once that decision was made, I immediately knew I wanted to put together a mini-gallery wall to tone down the “hey, look at the big TV” vibe we had going.
I didn’t want to spend much on the gallery wall, and luckily I didn’t have to. I was able to shop our home and garbage pick from our neighbors {yup, I was that girl picking through a junk pile at the curb} for everything I put up on the wall.
Once I collected a bunch of things, I traced their forms onto rosin paper left over from refinishing our floors. {Pardon the grainy instgram pictures....they are all I could find from when I started this project. #bloggerfail}
After that, I taped the shapes onto the wall and played around with the arrangement.
Once I liked what I saw, I busted out my handy, dandy 3M command strips {I do not hang a thing without them} to secure everything onto the wall.
And thennn, in true-to-me form, I let about three months pass while we stared at empty and/or ugly frames each day. Finally I had enough and prettied things up. I painted the garbage picked frames and even some of the mats.
I used some of my Spoonflower wallpaper samples to add a little pop to a few pieces.
I gave two frames extra special treatment by adding the Besos print from The Smitten Collection and the Zebra Love print from Parima Studio. You should check both ladies out because their stuff is uh-mazinggg...as in, I want it all!!
And done!!
Okay, well, 99% done. I have a bit more twerking, errrr I mean tweaking, to do. My DIY radiant orchid art is replacing the empty gold frame, and that shiny thing will be replacing the empty black frame. I'm also planning to fill the oval mat up with something better than my two-second-hack-job of a "Z".
Slowly but surely, I'm piecing this room together. I don't care how long it takes, I won't stop until the room truly feels like us. :)
