Sunday 25 May 2014

Statement wall feature on a shoe string

Hello! It has been a while! We've been very busy doing quite a fair bit of DIY in and outside the house. It's starting to really feel like our home after all these months. We're not quite there yet - we still have the mammoth task of painting all our hallways, and we still have one more bedroom to freshen up, but we've got so much done. The garden has been the main focus and we couldn't have picked a better time as the weather has (on the whole) been lovely this last few weeks!
We finished our living room a few weeks ago with the budget mirror from the dump taking pride of place on one wall. The opposite end of the room needed some kind of feature on it to even things up. I've been busily squirreling away as many photo frames as I can in all different sizes, designs, materials and widths and transforming them to make my random photo collage for the wall.


I still have a few frames to fill with prints that fit, but I love the effect. I picked up the frames from anywhere that were giving them away: bootsales are a good place to start as usually people will give you more than one for a job-lot price. I don't think I paid anymore than £4 or £5 for those ones. The others were bought at Aston Clinton recycling centre, where again they have so many to get rid of they are practically giving them away! I used Wilkinson's own brand of gloss spray paint and still have some left over in the can to use for similar projects. Just make sure you let them dry before putting the photos in!!

I may still add more to it, to really fill the wall space. I'm not sure what else would go on there... Any suggestions?? Please let me know!

Hoping that you're all enjoying the last Bank Holiday weekend in a while!! Make the most of it!!

BB xxx