Gallery Wall Part Dos

A Sequel to Gallery Wall Part Uno.  In a recent post, I mentioned that the gallery wall was no longer going to be in the living room.  Better judgement led us to believe that it belonged in the office.  So, true to younghouselove's tutorial (my favorite home-decor blog), we decided to use magazine pages cut to the size of each frame.  We labeled everything (of course) and arranged them on the wall in the office to figure out spacing issues. I filled all the frames with art that we I love, labeled them with numbers, cut the magazine pages to size and labeled those with the same numbers.  Then, I arranged the frames on the floor in a shape that I liked.

The rest was up to Josh.  His job was to "replicate" the floor version of frames with the paper on the wall taped with painter's tape.  This was his job, as he is the "spacing" and "measuring" person in our house.  I get overwhelmed with those things and I am certain that whatever part of the brain that deals with those things is missing from my body.  Anyway, here are some in-progress photos of our gallery wall, which I have more appropriately coined as "The Gallery Cloud".

Frames aligned on the floor with their respective magazine pages on top (to hide the art that will be revealed later)

Josh "hanging" the magazine pages in action.

The temporary final product (until frames are actually hung)

I love my cloud.  23 frames of happy.

On another note, I am headed to Cumberland this morning with Josh for my little brother's wedding, which is tomorrow!  Weird to think that my baby brother is going to soon be a husband.  I hope to take lots of pictures and share some details later :-)  Have a great weekend!

Office Updates

Our office looks a little different since the last time you saw it.  I have been wanting these awesome flower-on-the-wall things ever since I saw this photo from younghouselove's first home office:

I love how they are placed on  the floating shelves.  I just knew I needed them.  I had been eye-ing them up at Bed Bath and Beyond for quite some time and they were never on sale.  Well I found them (in silver) for 50% so I swooped them up and figured I could spray paint them someday.

 

Our bookshelf went from this:

 

to this:

So, temporarily I filled them in on our bookshelf and in the vase above it.  I also added some dried flowers from my bouquet from my friend Meghan's wedding.  Then, I bought some white boxes and filled them with office-related stuff.  Until we paint our new craigslist desk, we have absolutely no storage.  I keep paper in the long thin one and scissors/pencils/etc in the thicker one on top.

I was also very inspired by this little guy, who I have named "Chirp".  I found him in a fabric store Christmas Clearance section for like a buck.  How could I not?  He's so cute.  So I plan to use him somehow in our future office plans.  Maybe a bird theme of sorts?

Things definitely aren't even close to finished.  We still need to hang the gallery wall, paint the walls, paint our new desk, get a new office chair, put some floating shelves on the wall, and probably get some sort of other seating.  I have found some really cool tiny loveseat couches that pull out into a twin sofa bed.  How functional!