Crazy as it is, Halloween is Jay and my 3rd anniversary. Its fun because it feels a little bit like everyone is celebrating with us! I've been dying to frame up some of the great pictures we've taken on our travels together to celebrate how fun we are. Unfortunately Jay threw down a "no more things hanging on the walls" clause for our home as he was starting to feel overwhelmed by the amount of art. If it were up to me pretty much every wall surface would be covered in some sort of framed item but he's a clean lines no clutter sort of guy (this is in theory only, his items explode all over the house in reality).
After a few weeks of strategically placed pictures of gallery walls he started to warm up to the idea. He thought he liked ones with white frames, but I have a pathologic need to put every single thing in a black frame with a white mat. Everything. This is partially because it's awesome that you can hang any picture in any room and it will always go together and partially because I had an art teacher who told me that's how professionals display their work in a gallery setting when I was an impressionable college student. Luckily he was easily convinced that black and white was the way to go. Maybe white would have been cool, we'll never know.
Once I got the go ahead for the wall I gathered the extra frames I had around and brainstormed locations. I thought about putting it in our bedroom, but the lighting in there is terrible and we wouldn't get to enjoy it as much as in a more prominent location. Eventually the dining room wall with the arch revealed itself as the perfect location.
After Jay ran to Ikea to grab a few more frames we got to work figuring out how to hang them all together in a cool, eclectic and not visually assaulting manner.
After a few weeks of strategically placed pictures of gallery walls he started to warm up to the idea. He thought he liked ones with white frames, but I have a pathologic need to put every single thing in a black frame with a white mat. Everything. This is partially because it's awesome that you can hang any picture in any room and it will always go together and partially because I had an art teacher who told me that's how professionals display their work in a gallery setting when I was an impressionable college student. Luckily he was easily convinced that black and white was the way to go. Maybe white would have been cool, we'll never know.
Once I got the go ahead for the wall I gathered the extra frames I had around and brainstormed locations. I thought about putting it in our bedroom, but the lighting in there is terrible and we wouldn't get to enjoy it as much as in a more prominent location. Eventually the dining room wall with the arch revealed itself as the perfect location.
After Jay ran to Ikea to grab a few more frames we got to work figuring out how to hang them all together in a cool, eclectic and not visually assaulting manner.