A few tips for hanging the proper mirror gallery wall plus concepts for a standard meets trendy eclectic eating room.
This has been a type of initiatives that I used to be so intimidated to try it simply sat in storage till I might muster up the gumption to make it occur.
In the event you peeked at my messy home tour in my Instagram Stories oh… two months in the past, you may need seen my large assortment of vintage mirrors I’d been hoarding since September.
Aren’t they beauts?!
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A pair got here from eBay, a number of got here from the thrift retailer, and a pair had been model new simply because I found they slot in completely with the previous ones. (These pictured above are simply a few of the previous ones although.)
I pulled this one out simply in time for Trash to Treasure Transformation Tuesday. (You may see my thrifty blogger mates’ earlier than and afters on the finish of this publish.)
After I gave our secondhand eating desk a makeover within the fall, the remainder of this room sat with nothing on the partitions till now. I envisioned a giant stunning gallery wall of ornate vintage mirrors, however I couldn’t actually wrap my head round this one for the longest time to determine one of the simplest ways to hold them up.
Eclectic gallery partitions are fickle issues. They should be symmetrical however not look too intentional. They should look collected however not too polished. They should have a lot of items with out wanting too chaotic.
So I pulled out my traditional gallery wall creating trick. Although it’s at all times form of a ache, chopping out all the frames on transport paper and taping them to the wall is completely value it. I at all times mark precisely the place the nail holes are on the paper too so I can simply drive a nail or screw proper by the paper to eradicate any unintended holes within the wall.
My mother came to visit for a ladies’ hang around day for this one and we contemplated over this factor for a few hours earlier than getting it proper, untaping and shifting round all of these paper items in numerous positions. And she or he jogged my memory of a trick that I completely forgot about.
Everytime you really feel stumped, take an image of your house and take a look at the picture. No matter appears “off” within the room at all times jumps proper out at you while you take a look at it within the picture. By no means fails.
Now, our eating room appears to be like far more polished, however in an eclectic kind of means.
It’s soooo dramatic in opposition to these charcoal partitions.
(I by no means would have thought my fashion would rework into this based mostly on the farmhousey vibe of our final home. It’s simply additional proof to me that letting our properties “communicate” to us is at all times an opportunity to find extra about ourselves.)
Proper now, I’ve a console desk beneath the mirrors that I discovered in a consignment store a few years in the past and painted to appear like wooden. I can’t determine if I want an extended desk there or not.
And though the chandelier appears to be like good in images, in individual, the beads are soiled and a bit low-cost wanting. It simply doesn’t make my coronary heart sing. So subsequent step would be the chandelier.
We would finally add molding under the chair rail too.
As for the opposite facet of the room, I discovered the proper piece of abstract landscape art that ties collectively all the shades within the room. (I shared a few of my favourite summary acrylic artwork the opposite day, when you’ve been on the hunt.)
It jogs my memory of summertime with that gentle blue sky, which I’m simply determined for proper now. This Carolina lady can solely take a lot chilly, grey winter climate.
This eating room has come SUCH a great distance since final spring.
Right here is the price range breakdown thus far together with sources:
Complete: $1,613
Contemplating that accounts for all the furnishings, that’s not too shabby.
I’m SO excited that we truly get to have Easter dinner in right here in one other month-ish and that it’s now not an empty room the place we simply dumped all of our shifting containers.
Progress makes good. Scratch that. This home won’t ever actually be good. However I don’t actually need it to be. That’s what makes the journey so enjoyable.
You may take a look at the remainder of this month’s Trash to Treasure Tuesday blogger initiatives under:
(Clockwise from prime left):
Prodigal Pieces | Artsy Chicks Rule | Confessions of a Serial DIYer | Girl in the Garage
