Aug 16: Updated Walls

I have a few wall updates to share today!

1. Canvas house painting:

I found this pin on Pinterest and fell in love with the idea of a painting/print of our house. But this seller is all booked up through the end of the year and she also charges $150. I figured I could probably do something similar. I was nervous, though, because I've never painted anything this 'artistic' before. And I really didn't want my painting to look like a Kindergartner did it, but I knew it was ok to be a little crooked/hand drawn.

So I used this picture pulled up on my iPhone:


I bought a canvas, a few new acrylic paints, and just went for it. No sketching or tracing, just crossing my fingers that it would somehow look like our house. I took pictures of the progress as I went along.










Started to like it a lot more with the landscaping added in.


And, Ta Da! Here is my painting. It's not nearly as cute with our last name and street name blurred out, but oh well. I do think that banner 'makes' the painting so it's a shame I can't just show it to you in all of it's glory.






I like it enough that I hung it right by our front door. I wasn't so sure at first, but it turned out cute.




2. New canvas wall:

I bought these two new canvases from CG Pro Prints and am obsessed with how they turned out. I already had four other canvases in this large 16''x20'' size so I envisioned a wall of six big, fat canvases above our computer.



Laid them out to get the arrangement just right.


Nate got to work.




Ta Da!


Love how colorful and BIG this wall seems now.








3. Frame gallery wall (that you helped me create!)

I seriously tallied up all of your votes for the best wedding picture and your favorite 'other' pictures for this dining room wall. For real.



I finally pulled the trigger and ordered all eight of the 11x14" sized prints from Mpix on Sunday night, after staying up way too late deliberating. I also got three smaller colored prints for our stairway gallery.  Can you spot the new ones?



When these babies arrived in the mail just three days after I ordered them, I was pumped. Great mail day!




We decided to arrange them by alternating darks and lights. I wish they were chronological or paired up by similar poses but it just looked really weird that way. My only complaint is that the wedding image is from far away while the others are all pretty close up. Someday (at the end of the year?) when we update the family shot I might get another wedding shot to replace this one. But for now it's totally fine and I smile each time I walk past this gallery. The 11x14" size is gigantic and I love it! Thank you for helping me choose, blog world.







(had to lay on the ground to get all of them in this shot, darn glare from the buffet windows!)


New pictures on our walls make me happy. Henry, too.