The After: (Hello Holes in the Wall)

If you didn't see the Before post yet, click HERE. Otherwise the following pics won't look all that spectacular.

The After:

Isn't is fabulous? I love love love it. Every time I walk by my room I have to stick my head in just to stare at it for a while.

I ended up using 11 of the impressionist painting prints (out of the 22 I had), 8 images that I printed out for free on Vintage Printable, and two small mirrors.

I already had the large frame that I put the two Renoir paintings in. The two big square frames (that house Starry Night and The Dancing Class) came from St. Vincent's, as did the two mirrors and two other smaller frames. The rest of the frames came from the Dollar Tree. A pretty cheap project, considering that to buy framed prints like these individually would probably cost $10+ at retail price.
You may be thinking to yourself, "Gee, I wonder how she got all those pictures spaced so nicely." The truth is that it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. It is, however, more time consuming that I thought it would be. My sister Lindsey has apparently done a similar picture wall in her apartment at college, so she shared her secrets with me on how to get everything looking uniform and straight. It took a while to get everything done, but it was well worth it to be sure that it was going to all fit and be spaced correctly before I started putting holes in my wall.

What it looked like before I started nailing:
Yes, that is newspaper on my wall. They were my guides to make sure everything was placed right and also so I would know where I needed to put my nails.

All in all, it was a very fun and inexpensive project. I kind of want to do this to every wall in my house now. Someone stop me quick!

The Before: (Au Revoir Pretty Painting)

Sorry about the lack of a Music Monday post yesterday... with my family being here I've been losing track of the days, and it didn't occur to me until last night around 11pm that it was Monday. Such is life...

Anyways, on to the real subject of this blog: Redecorating!

I took this picture of my bed last night around 6:30 or so. The less-than-stellar-ness of the photo can be attributed to the fact that it is pitch black outside around that time, and the lights in my room are yellow, making in nearly impossible to achieve a good picture.

The less-than-stellar-ness of this picture, however, can be attributed to a less-than-stellar camera. I took this picture on March 19th of this past year when my best friend Janell came over and helped me paint a giant canvas:
Mid-process:
We bought everything at Michael's and then just kind of made it up as we went. We did a base of dark purple, added some light purple/pink-ish streaks around the bottom, and then used rolls of packing tape, the bottom of pepsi cans, milk lids, and marker caps dipped in paint to make the silver circles. We did one dark green circle near the bottom left just for fun.

So that's the origins behind the giant purple painting in my room. It's been faithfully decorating my room for the past 9 months, but lately I've been thinking of making a change. Last night was when that change occurred.

The following is my official "Before" picture. If it ever decides to clear up and not be so gray outside, I will take my "After" pictures some time this afternoon and post them either tonight or tomorrow.
So what wondrous thing did I do to my wall? You'll just have to wait. :)

But because I'm nice, I'll give you a hint: