decorate my walls.

I've mentioned this before, but J and I have lived in our house for four years, and not until recently did we really start to tackle decorating the place.

We painted the living/kitchen/dining area a couple of years ago, and have slowly been painting the rest of the house. The previous owners loved their butter yellow, but I had other {more neutral -- save for the kitchen} colors in mind.

Anyway, I've also mentioned previously that J and I want to do a couple of gallery walls in the house: one above the couch in the living room and one above or across from our bed in the master bedroom.

Since making that decision, I've been trying to make decisions on what all I'd like to have framed and/or hanging on our walls. {And, I'm not the best at making decisions ...}

Cut to yesterday. I hadn't been on Etsy in quite some time, but I constantly see other blogs posting about the awesome stuff they've found on there. And, yes, I've found some cool stuff, too, but I've only bought one thing and it's currently hanging in the house -- and wirewrapped M.

I'm a Chi Omega {hoot, hoot} and really would like to have a little owl representation in our house. Side note: J had a friend staying at our house over the weekend for a golf tournament and he thought I was a Kappa because I have a fleur de lis on one of our shelves {from my MIL, who is also a Chi O -- what was she thinking??}

Ok, I'm really getting to the meat of the story now. I found these babies from littlebirdstudio and thought they would be perfect hanging where the previously mentioned M is now, so that we can move the M into our gallery wall. So I got three. And at only $8 a picture, it was pretty much a steal!

I'm really excited to get these babies in and then matted and framed. I'm thinking either a simple black frame or kind of a thin ornate-ish one. What do you think?

Gallery Wall

We've lived in our house for almost four years, and even though it's far from a finished product, I feel pretty good about some spots in our house.

A couple of "problem areas" in my mind are the master bedroom and the wall above our couch in the living room -- both of which I want to fill with a gallery wall.

Let's start with the living room.

During Christmas we moved the furniture around to accommodate our tree and since then, we've left it as is. But, this leaves the wall over the couch empty. We had plans to hang a mirror {that we got about 2 years ago}, but it's proved to be more of a hassle than not. We'll hang it eventually, but maybe we'll find somewhere else for it. What I really want to do is use the space for a gallery wall. 

Here's a picture of the wall above the couch {notice the scratches on the wall and screw anchored to the wall? Those are remnants from failed attempts at hanging the mirror}. 

And, here's a picture of two walls in our bedroom. {Please excuse all of our bedroom -- its pretty much the one room that I've done nothing with.}

I'd like to either do a gallery wall across from the bed or above the bed, in lieu of a headboard or anything of that kind. And, just to ease your mind, I bought the bookcase I mentioned in this post, and I have a side table that I need to paint black and we'll be well on our way to having a normal master bedroom. Ha! Oh, and there's a mirror that I want to get form Wal-Mart {gasp!} that I want to get to replace that cheap full-length one leaning against the wall. 

Here is some gallery wall inspiration:

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I know there are other pictures of gallery walls out there, but I'm kind of sick of searching and I think you get the idea. As we keep working on it, I'll keep you posted!