The one in the middle is of our first home. This home. This place that we have come to love and have put so much sweat and time into. Neither of us think we will live here forever, but our first home will always be special to us.
Do you have a place for monumental photos? Is your home suffering from art overload without a single snapshot? Do you miss our old gallery wall? We are so amazed at what three little photos did to help our house feel more like our home.
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Oooo…don’t tempt me JULIA!!! $7.99 frames are totally doable. Okay. I’m motivated. Doing it.
I really liked the old wall (we’re shooting to do something like that in our kitchen) but I love the simplicity of the three photos. It’s so classic looking!
These frames are from Ross. $7.99 each. Not super fancy, but they work for now. I love the look of a big white mat and who knows, maybe a few pictures will be in color down the road….I hadn’t even thought of that!
I am dying for a photo wall, but it is just not in the cards for us right now. I’m trying to stop myself from buying cheap frames from walmart and just waiting a couple more years and really invest in nice frames that will last. Everytime I see a nice pic of us I’m like dang it, we need to start a picture wall!!!
BUT, my dad is BIG time obsessed with the picture wall we had in Seattle and the one we now have in NC. He has picked each picture perfectly. I always love coming home to see if he has added anything to the wall. All the frames are black, but the pictures are in color. Which i like too. But I am definitely partial to the black frames, white mat, and b/w pictures.
Love the simplicity…