Morning Everyone, thanks for stopping by 
Here is my second ‘Fall Nesting’ project for the fabulous ‘The Inspired Room’ event.
I’ve got a bit fed up of having picture frames on work surfaces, they just fall over every time Lily bumps into them – which is a lot. So having seen gorgeous gallery walls on the Pottery Barn site and around various blogs such as Abbey goes Design Scouting I decided to put one behind our big Sofa in the lounge.
Before
Comfortable but very dull
The Makeover:
I’d been buying ‘Ribba’ frames from Ikea for a while in different shapes, sizes but in Oak and Cream because I thought they looked good together. They are fairly inexpensive but do look clean and simple.
Now I’m not one of these people who is very good with measuring tapes or a leveller, I just tend to bash nails in the wall and hope for the best! I drive Paul nuts, but if I banish him from the room while I’m doing it everything tends to look ok. But this was actually bit of a challenge and it took me most of last night to get right. And I’ve left room for more additions.
So in hindsight I’d arrange how the were supposed to look first, rather than being artistic and hoping that it looked ok in the end – LOL! But that is the joy of the gallery wall it’s not supposed to be perfect and if you have different frames, I think that they’d look pretty ecclectic and interesting.
The Result:
A little brighter
All my favourite photos
This post was supposed to be a lot longer than it is so sorry about that – I promise a better one tomorrow!.
We had a household emergency yesterday afternoon. Paul spotted a mouse coming out of Lily’s room (ewww!!), he shouted for me and it escaped back in there. God knows how it got in, but the fields behind our house have just been harvested and they are no doubt looking for somewhere warm and cozy to live, but not my daughter’s bedroom!. As you can imagine I ripped the room apart looking for it or any little friends. In the end I called Betty and she tracked it into the built in cupboard, so we set traps and poison and it’s now very dead – no sign of friends thankfully!
However Lily’s room looks like there has been a tornado through it, in fact she couldn’t sleep in there last night it was so messy. So I’m going to take advantage and de-clutter her room today while she’s at school, I maybe sometime
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This is great! Happy Fall and thanks for the shout out!
Hey Abbey, thanks for stopping by. I love your site and your massive Gallery Wall post was a great inspiration. Thanks to you!
Oh, no! I’d freak out if a mouse showed up in my Lily’s bedroom like it did in yours. The last time we had a mouse, we still had our cat, and she took care of it. Now that the cat’s no longer with us, I guess we’d have to do the job ourselves.
Love your photos on the wall. That mix of frames looks great together! -Julia
LOL! You should have heard me scream when I saw it! Lily’s room is now back together and looking as it should. Glad you like the frames, I’m really pleased with them. ~ Liz
Photo walls like that are great, you can always add more pics to the gallery wall as you desire! Aren’t mice creepy? We’ve had them before. Eeww. A good trap with a bit of peanut butter always does the trick!
Blessings,
Stacey
Oh my gosh on the mouse. We’ve had a few, well, issues at our place. But only (as far as I know?) in our basement laundry room. Ew, never the less. Good thing your husband saw it!
Great work on your gallery, I am just like you. I banish my hubby from the room and go to work experimenting. He, on the other hand, would take far too long and do things like draw templates and use a measuring tape. Imagine that?
Happy day & happy nesting! Thanks for linking!
xo
One of the many joys of living in the country … occasional mouse!
) We have three cats indoors and we have had a couple incidents where their hunting skills were put to the test! 
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I really like the wall display of pictures! Especially the different color frames!
Sincerely ~ Tricia Anne
Thanks for all your kind messages. I spent the morning fixing Lily’s bedroom with an eye out in case there were anymore mice, I think I’m paranoid now – LOL! I miss having a cat, Betty’s gigantic and Labradors aren’t great mousers
Melissa my husband is the same, he would have made a template for all the frames and then measured the wall – it would have taken days!! You should see him when I’m trying to fix up my Sid Dickens tiles….that said he’s not seen the wall behind them yet – oops! ~ Liz x
Good morning! I love your pictures! And your choice on frames… very posh!
Nice photo montage! And I think my Lab would take out a mouse…If you didn’t live so far away I’d let you borrow Maggie to give her a go at it.
Terri – thank so much it’s lovely you to leave a message
Laura – LOL! I could do with borrowing a mouser dog, mine just likes to play with them
Liz x