DISCLOSURE: I am part of the DecoArt Blogger Program and was provided product samples for this project. However, this is a brand and product type I know and love! Know that I only promote and share products I personally use and recommend! To learn more, please review my disclosure policy here. My 2016 goals included updating the family gallery wall in the living room. I’m happy to say that MONTHS later, it’s now complete and fully on display! Here’s how I did it on budget and with my handmade touch! When doing some rearranging of our living room, I found the original wall we had the gallery wall on wasn’t the best place and instead moved it over our sideboard (used for table cloths, liquor and miscellaneous kitchen overflow). In an effort to not spend a lot of money, I went through all the random frames I owned, plus shopped the clearance section of AC Moore and came up with this collection of frames for my gallery. Tip: flip the frames over to make sure they are wall hanging frames! So many I had in the original layout were only tabletop so I'm glad I looked sooner than later so I could swap them out! At first glance you’re probably thinking I’m crazy to make this mismatch collection a gallery wall, but I had ... Continue Reading...
Creating A Family Wall Gallery with Shutterfly
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I was also compensated with free product for this post, but know that I will only promote items I personally use and stand behind! For more information on my disclosure policy, please visit this page. Friends know how long I patiently waited for Derek to pop the question. After nine years of dating, we FINALLY got engaged and ten months later we were married. I was so excited to finally be a Nehil and loved to add that family element in our home. Months after we came back from our honeymoon I converted this blank wall in our living room into our Nehil Family wall, which included a "Nehil" frame gifted by my bridesmaids, a collage frame of our wedding photos and a big decorative "N". Fast forward a few months and now we were a family and not just a married couple. Brielle needed to be included on our family wall! Luckily, Shutterfly gave me the chance to make this happen. In just a short amount of time I was able to put together some fun items that worked perfectly with my family wall display. And since there wasn't any room on the wall itself, I made great use of the console tabletop right in front. (You know the table that houses our bin of toys, as seen in the ... Continue Reading...
Living Room Updates
We were very blessed at our September 22 wedding, to receive many gifts from family and friends. As we already own a house and therefore we weren't saving up for a down payment like most young couples, we decided to put some of the money towards home improvement and decorating efforts to make our house more home-y. As today is our 3 year House-i-versary (yep I make an anniversary for everything), I thought I'd share one of these home decorating updates. Here's our living room when we moved in 3 years ago: We loved the open space, light woods and even the yellow paint! After spackling any holes and applying a similar color of paint, we began hunting and gathering our warm color palette of furniture and accent pieces to fill up the space. Here's how the room looks today: While I'm forever in the process of getting that "this random collection of stuff all matches yet each has a special meaning to us" look, I think we're almost done decorating this space! Our house was built in 1960, but the previous owners did a great job of gutting and refinishing it to the modern look you see today. This includes removing a wall from the living room to the dining room to make an open floor plan on this ... Continue Reading...