![]() Once you reach the arrangement you like, trace each frame onto the paper – even marking the spot where each one hangs on the back – creating an oversized template that you can transfer right onto your wall. SHAROOOKEN! You arrange your frames on the floor, but on top of a large sheet of paper (like brown craft paper, red rosin paper, or even wrapping paper if that’s all you have). This is kind of a combo move of the two above. Less busy paper would be easier on the ol’ eyeballs, but you get the idea. You can see that method in use here in our last house where we created a frame gallery in the hallway. Then you just tape them up on the wall using masking or painter’s tape, and move them around until you like the arrangement and are ready to put the actual frames up in place of the paper templates. How? Use newspaper, brown paper bags, or even printer paper (taped together if you need to make a larger piece of paper) and cut them to the size of each frame you want to hang. Because it helps you visualize things right on the wall before you actually hang the frames. This one is really easy too, and if you are worried you won’t like things once they’re up on the wall, it’s the one to try. That’s how we created this very frame wall in our original post… back when our living room was overwhelmingly, mind-numbingly brown. Then just move them around on the floor to see what layout you like. Grab whatever frames you have on hand and want to use (or pick up new ones that you love) and lay them out on the floor, with a gap on the floor in the shape of your TV (measure it to get the correct amount of space). Ok, now onto actually hanging your frames around the TV. ![]() ![]() Also, we are BIG FANS of secondhand dressers as TV cabinets – this one is from a thrift store and we have a similar one in our bonus room from Craigslist.Īrranging And Hanging Your Pictures Frames But mounting it has definitely made the room feel more spacious and less cluttered. As you can see in the old photo below, we had ours resting on the media cabinet for years. And if you’re looking to cut the cord, here’s how we did that.īut it’s not absolutely necessary to mount your TV to create a good-looking frame gallery around it. That post also shows you how to hide a cable box if you have one. That whole process only takes an hour or so and is SO WORTH IT. We’ve got an entire post dedicated to creating a cord-free TV wall if you’re interested in a step-by-step tutorial on that. We also decided to mount our new TV on the wall and used one of those in-wall power cord systems to hide the wire. Readying Your TV For A Gallery Wallįirst, if you listened to last week’s podcast you heard that we got a new TV (the old and very faithful one now lives at the beach house, reunited with our old couch and it feels so good). I’ll be the whale if you’re that big school of tiny reflective fish. And since I get a bunch of questions every time we show a smidge of it on social media, this post is for everyone asking about framing arrangements, what to frame, how to hang them, and where we get our art. Things have evolved A LOT in that room since then (hello paint!) and the gallery got a few tweaks (some new art there, some frame switches there) but it has pretty much stood the test of time. ![]() We first blogged about adding a frame gallery around our living room television, oh, FOUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO (evidence: here – also how funny is the “What Does the Fox Say?” reference – ah, 2013). And you can always turn on Planet Earth, since that makes any TV look like art in a nanosecond. It’s not like the TV disappears when you add a gallery – but at least you have a few other (prettier) spots to rest your eyes. It’s often this hulking dark thing on an otherwise bare wall, so why not break things up and add a few other rectangular things to deemphasize it. ![]() Why? Well, that big black box isn’t exactly gorgeous. But one spot I love for a gallery wall these days is actually around a TV. They totally have a gallery wall going up their formal staircase in the foyer where Kevin sleds and hurls paint cans. But I’d argue that a collection of picture frames hung together on the wall feels pretty classic if you stop and think about it. It makes sense that picture gallery walls on every wall (especially the ones with a ton of tiny frames) might feel a little less “new and fresh” these days. Some say gallery walls are trending out in favor of larger scale art. ![]()
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