Decisions: Arranging Pictures on the Wall...

Decisions.

I am not good at them.

For example:

when faced with getting new base cupboards for our kitchen,

I had to choose drawer pulls.

What an overwhelming selection of drawer pulls there are!

How do people decide?

How do indecisive people like myself decide?

So I printed up all my favorites,

cut them out...

and narrowed it down to two that I liked best.

I took a look at the price difference,

and when I found that the darker ones were not only on sale,

but a sale on top of that one,

I made my decision and saved about $40.

 

$40 here,

$40 there...

it adds up.

It took some time and ink to print/cut out the paper "pulls"

but I think it was worth it to help a visually-needy person like me decide.

On to my recent dilemma:

My living room is almost complete with it's renovation.

(A recent yard sale find was the oriental rug.
It looks like it wasn't even used.
Yay for yard sales!!)

I am very happy with the way the whole living room has come together.

But there is one wall.

I had used it for a school wall,

but we never seemed to stay in this room to do school,

so I painted the top half a lighter shade of the same green on the living room wall

by just adding some white to it.

I looked for too long through blogs and magazines for ideas for this wall.

There are "farming" scenes and elements all around the living room,

so I thought this might be a good wall to hang our aerial view photos of

our farm

and

the farmette where we lived the first five years of our marriage.

I purchased two small Currier and Ives farm scenes at a discount at an antique store

because the frames were damaged.

I just repainted them (and their mats red),

as well as all of the other frames so that they would look like a more cohesive grouping.

I also had the farm scene that I painted that would be nice in this grouping.

I saw these plastic flowers for $.50 at a yard sale.

They were pink and blue and yellow,

but I turned them all into red.

 The plaque was also a yard sale find repainted.

My predicament was:

how to place all these things on the wall.

I read about cutting paper to replicate picture sizes/shapes and hanging them on the wall

to try arranging.

But I decided to just lay them out right on the floor in front of the wall instead:

 I finally decided on this arrangement:

 I have to say,

it is nice to have pictures on the wall again

instead of maps and children's school work.

Now I have a busy refrigerator.

I feel like,...

...well,

 like I like being in my living room.

It's a nice feeling.

Linking up to:

Kellyskornerblog.com

Funkyjunkinteriors.net
Missmustardseed.com
Betweennapsontheporch.net 

Homesteadrevival.blogspot.com