Project Nursery { gallery wall }

Work continues in our little girl's nursery, it has been so much fun to finally put together her room and I am so glad I waited. This week the gallery wall went up and I am so in love with it,

Even from the inspiration photos and early planning, I knew I wanted to add a gallery wall  to our sweet Lilly's nursery. I wanted a place for her newborn photos, maybe a maternity photo or two, keepsakes and even her own artwork and I knew I wanted to do it in a way that wasn't just same shape frames, I wanted variety and interest. So I came at this gallery wall with a fairly high wish list and wondered if I would be able to pull it off without overwhelming her room. 

With such a tall order and big expectations I took a few extra steps to ensure I ended up with a gallery wall that I was happy with.

STEP ONE

I browsed Pinterest looking at the gallery walls that I liked and had pinned before, What was it about those specific ones that caught my eye? I also put a lot of thought into what I wanted to include in the gallery wall, making a list helped me narrow down and decide on what would eventually fill the frames.

STEP TWO 

Collect the frames and other bits you want included in your gallery wall, I had been gathering frames for a few months and putting them aside.

STEP THREE

You can use anything that works, have some newspaper hanging around? That would do fine. I have a giant roll of freezer paper and decided to use that to trace and cut out mock versions of the things I wanted included in my gallery wall.

STEP FOUR

I know this all feels like unnecessary steps, why not just throw some frames on the wall and call it a day? While I am sure some can do that and pull it off, I knew that doing these extra steps would give me the opportunity to play with the arrangement before making a final decision. I did just that and as I taped my freezer-paper versions up on the wall I wound up playing with them and moving them about a fair amount before finally being happy with the way it looked. It is worth the extra effort (at least for me).

STEP FIVE

FINALLY, haha, grab some nails and your hammer! Some frames are easy to hang up while others have all these little hooks so if a frame is giving you trouble mark on your paper versions where the hooks are and hammer into that, it may seem strange but the paper version can be pulled away and now you won't be blindly trying to level out a frame with all those crazy hooks. 

Please ignore the empty frames throughout this post and while there was a sneak peak at the nursery I am saving the full reveal for another day as I work on sewing and adding some final details.

xo, Anne.