Our New Gallery Wall

Apparently the sun is gone for good, which is fine with me, except that I've been trying to take photos of our new gallery wall and the lighting is bad. But I guess I'll have to make do since the sun may not come out again for a while.

This fall has brought with it a serious sense of nesting around the house. We've passed the year mark here in Corvallis, and are looking into our second year. A second year feels pretty permanent, since the last time I lived in one place longer than two years would be when my family lived in Bolivia. We left when I was 16. Half my life has gone by since then. I'm currently feeling like I want to live here forever. However I should point out that at this point I take forever to be anything longer than two years.

Just in the last couple of weeks we've made some significant changes, finding a couch on Craigslist, hanging a gallery wall, shuffling furniture from one room to the next and hiding what we can in the attic to give all the rooms a bit more breathing room. Overnight our living room went from a place that had minimalist vibes (and not in the good way) to a place which can actually seat more than two people. Also, it's a lot cozier for the current and coming weather.

I love the look of gallery walls and pin pretty much every one I come across on Pinterest. I knew I wanted to make one myself (question: how many gallery walls can one home have?) and then I decided we should do it right now. We went up to Ikea to pick out a bunch of frames and then had the hard decision of choosing which photos to have printed out. We taped papers to the wall first to give us a guide for what we were doing.

And then finally it was time to put the wall up. The final product was definitely worth all the time and effort.

I won't be 100% happy until the pictures reach from floor to ceiling, which is the overindulgent aspect I love about gallery walls. But it's a great start that we can enjoy now, and hopefully add to in the future.