Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Taking Up Space

Our guest room is finally coming to a point where I'm not embarrassed for people to sleep in there.  Yesss!  

Remember Barney??  Well, Barney has been gone for a while, but the area above the bed was painfully empty.  I have hopes of making a headboard someday, but there was still a lot of wall to cover.


So I decided on my go-to cover-a-lot-of-space-cheaply trick - frames collage!  Basically, as I referred to in this post - my budget was $0, with the added obligation of using some of the stuff I had accumulated.  Luckily, I had a bunch of black frames, which fit in with the colors of the room.


I wanted the "theme" (how artistic!) of this wall to be trips.  So in theory, every picture up there is representative of a vacation.  Then I had some tree images (the main one from Ikea), one from my godmother's husband, and one that I took myself on a trip to Asheville.  So - the theme got amended to trees and trips.  Close enough.


I didn't want to do straight black and white, so there's some color in there.  Non-uniform?  Maybe.  Too bad.

Our wall is representin'  Charleston, Asheville, Mexico, St. Lucia (via Tony's parents), and Turks and Caicos.  I hope to add more as I go, hopefully more dimensional art (I'm thinking coins, paper money, cool trinkets, etc). 





The room is getting there!  I just need to jazz up the one corner and get new blinds, and we'll be set.  Come on over! 

6 comments:

  1. It's lookin good!! Is that reversible bedding? If so, awesome choice, I like the mix of the prints between the cover and shams.

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  2. thanks! yes, it is reversible - i like the medallion looking side best - but unfortunately, our dogs like to lay up there when no one is home, and the white has gotten a little dirty...

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  3. Looks great! I love your picture frame collage. It is the perfect addition for above the bed.

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  4. Nice job! It really looks great!

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  5. This looks so great. I love the mix of colors and the photo wall. I also really like the black shelf! Can I visit? ;)

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  6. Oooh I love your work! The walls look great!

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