UPDATED GALLERY WALL

Ever since we got rid of the short lived sectional last year, 

I am been meaning to update the gallery wall above the new sofa. 

I finally got around to it one day last week.

Once it was done, I kicked myself for not doing it sooner. 

There were several issues I had with the old gallery wall.

This is what I did to address the issues:

I switched out four frames with new frames with mats from Target.

I added two gold oval frames I had on hand.

I condensed the entire display to work with the new smaller sofa. 

I added two of these frames with oversize mats (in two different sizes).

I also added two of these simple black frames with mats. 

The only two pictures I added to the gallery wall were these two.  

Those cheeks, oh how I miss those chubby little cheeks!

I started the process by taking down the entire gallery wall.

I vacuumed behind the couch, filled all the nail holes and wiped down the wall.  

I had intended to repaint the wall, but my paint was too old 

and once I used a magic eraser, the wall looked almost as good as new.  

Have I mentioned I HATE to paint?

Next, I traced all the frames onto newspaper, labeled them,

cut them out and started playing around with a new arrangement. 

When I finally got everything arranged like I wanted, 

I used my newspaper templates as a guide to make new nail holes, 

and then replaced my newspaper templates with the frames.

Much better!

I had been dreading this project for almost a year.  

In total, including frame shopping, I think I spent two hours on the darn project.

Why oh why do I procrastinate so much???

I think gallery walls can be quite intimidating.

The approach I used makes the process a little less painful. 

Happy to check this one off my "to do" list!

So do tell, what kind of projects are you putting off tackling?