It’s been over a year since we’ve moved into our home. Recently we’ve begun to think about frivolous things such as hanging up pictures. We currently have a blank wall space above our living room sofa measuring about seven feet wide and five feet tall. For inspiration, Pottery Barn has an entire book devoted to displaying photos. Apartment Therapy had some good information, including a post about a company that sells a packaged system for your picture hanging project. Of course, we opted for the do-it-yourself route.
First, we decided on simple IKEA Ribba frames because they were reasonably priced, and because this is a budget project (not aspiring to be the Met here). To go even cheaper, we could shop thrift stores and collect our frames over time. Given that everything takes us way longer than we imagined, we thought it best to take the easy route and design with stock frames. I took down the measurements of all the various frame sizes and then got to work designing.
Tig whipped out his computer aided drawing program and outlined a seven foot by five foot rectangle (roughly the size of our living room wall). Then he drew one of each frame size and made multiple copies of each. After he was satisfied, he printed the computer drawings and labeled each frame size. We cut the frames out with low-tech scissors (yes, we could have accomplished the same thing with graph paper and pencil). Here I am arranging the frames in various configurations in the “wall space”.
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