One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
Things are looking up around here. At least in my upstairs hallway. As I was hanging artwork there recently (you can read about it here), I decided I needed one more piece to stretch across the top of the wall. Maybe a sign of some kind, I was thinking. I checked the stash of projects …
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It's taken about three weeks, but I finally have art up on the wall in my upstairs hallway. Here's what the hallway looked like before. It's right at the top of our stairs, and I always felt like it would be perfect for a gallery wall but I just never got around to making a …
I had the day off of work last Friday and just one thing I wanted to accomplish: (finally) hang some art on the empty wall in our upstairs hallway. All of the photos in this post are of thrift store paintings, kids' art and mementos of our travels that I've collected and (sadly) stored in …
This was my birthday present from my husband last year: No, not the cat. The wall. We've actually owned the wall (and the house that it's attached to) for 20 years. But the planks -- and the installation of them -- were my husband's gift. There's a reason I've been married to the man for …
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