Need to fill some wall space? Looking for a gallery wall and too impatient to slowly and collect a curated grouping?
Fake it! Thanks to Rue Magazine for showing this great trick, which I have used many-a-time. Shhhhh. Actually one of my favorite ways to really beef up a gallery wall is with these beauties I purchased from Taschen years ago from Edward Lear called The Parrots (for a peek at the amazing prints from this amazing artist’s work in The Parrots LOOK HERE!). Next, once you have a few good pieces to fill the space (and the best about wildlife books is there is usually a lot of prints so you can switch them out when you want some change)…flip through a fashion mag and carefully tear out some great dramatic images and pop them in the frames. Ikea actually has some great different simple frame sizes to use…don’t forget to mix in a vintage frame or two and colors and textures.
Here is Rue’s inspiration for such as well as my own home with the birds and a small gallery wall. Moving into my new home office in a few weeks and cannot wait to incorporate my Gold Southern Sayings, photo my grandmother gave me of her first client at her shop and my birds. ‘Twill be my new haven.
Also, one last thing…nervous about nailing? Many ways to beat the nerves! 1) Tape if off. Tape off all the sizes of art you have to see how it all fits on the wall, then go for it! 2) Lay it out on the ground first and my favorite 3) If it is light enough, use the 3M removable hooks! They work amazing for light prints that you use the Ikea frames on, they work for the 3# hold and you don’t have to make any commitment! (all the images and even the clock on my gallery wall is hung with the 3M’s!)
My place:
Amazing art by Terry Day, Amma’s photo and some birds
A refresher on the rad art that will be going on my new gallery wall:
Framing this puppy (or slimy eel) out in white linen mat and thin brass frame.
I have these prints in “Hey ya’ll”, “Heavens To Betsy” and “Hold Your Horses”
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