My wall gallery--FINALLY

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oh hey friends!  I'm feeling sooo good right now because of all of you :)  137 followers, 200 FB likers--man, good day for B.Chen!!!!  It's also my last day of vacay before I'm back to reality....but whatevs, cause people LIKE ME!  :)

Anyone see this post I did back in April?  It's about my obsession with photo wall galleries.  Yeah.....I love them.  ALL of them.  One color, bright and white, vintage, the classics, or whimsy.  I want one of each representin' in the Chen House.  UNFORTUNATELY, there are some rules that I've mentioned before......  I am allowed to do whatever I see AWESOME fit in non-common areas (guest rooms, my bathroom, gym, guest bathrooms).  However, I must consult Mr. Oh-I'm-so-Contemporary J Chen on common area revamps.  So, that meant that anything whimsy, colorful or vintage was OUT.  Out I tell you!  Don't even TRY to sneak it in. It's OUT DAMMIT.  So I went rolling my eyes with the One Color Gallery--white--in our living-room.

I started collecting frames over the past few months from everywhere from thrift stores, $ stores, my friend's closet, etc.  That was the easy part.  Then there was the spraypainting.....Let me just tell you this about me:  I am NOT a perfectionist.  I am NOT patient.  I'm just not.  And I'm ok with it--I'm just always hoping that you're not looking too closely ;-) ....Henyways, what I'm saying is that I spent a ton of time spraypainting, then re-spraypainting cause I straight up suck at it.....What can you do?



Now this next part might contradict me just a little.....I did my share of homework on the best way to set this up.....I measured all the frames and cut out cardboard stand-ins for all.  I taped off a square on the wall where I would be placing the gallery.  I placed an identical tape square on the floor in front of the wall.

I probably didn't have to do the tape on the floor, but as I was laying out the stand-ins, it was so much easier to move them around on the floor then to tape and retape on the wall...

So once I had what I wanted laid on the floor, I moved it to the wall.

Once I was kinda 100% sure that I had everything I wanted, I grabbed J Chen and he helped me out with the nailing process (yeah he did!) What I did to help him was measure from the top of the frame to the hangy-thing.  Then I measured down from the top of the stand-in so J would know where to nail.  Once he made a small nail hole, I removed the stand-in and J finished nailing.  Then all I had to do was put up the frames!  Just. Like. That.

I wouldn't mind expanding on this at some point.....but for now, it really looks nice in its space :)  If I do say so myself (and I do).

Oh, and ps, this was the Before.  DVDs are SOOOO Over.  Guess I'll just have to figure out some other place to hang the stockings.  I could have have real problems.

soooo glad these are gone!  

The last look(s), for good measure :)

As always, thank you so much for taking the time to stop by!  

Big (WHITE GALLERY) Smile,

B.Chen