Special thanks to Rod Works and Canvas By Design for sponsoring this blog post.
I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love how my living room gallery wall turned out! It looks better than I ever could have imagined! I chose different aspects from my favorite Pinterest finds and tried to make my own unique twist on the design. I have some tips to share with you for creating a gallery wall in your living room.
Tips For Creating The Perfect Gallery Wall:
1 – Choose a Theme: I went with a modernized farmhouse style. I love the wood based with metal accents of the farmhouse trend right now, but I also love throwing in a little bit of color. I felt like the green helped to modernize the farmhouse theme of my wall.
2 – Plan Ahead: I decided to plan ahead when it came to measuring and getting everything I needed beforehand and I’m so glad I did. I laid everything out on the floor and each time I got a new piece I’d make sure it would fit within my measured parameters.
3 – Don’t Rush It: I took a few months finding the perfect items for my wall. I spent a good amount of time planning it out and finding exactly the pieces I wanted. This caused my planning ahead to be a little tricky, but it worked out. I put any items that I bought in the same location in my upstairs room and every time I bought a new item I would then pull them out, measure it, and then put it back in a pile so it didn’t take up my whole living room.
4 – Add Meaningful Items: I think gallery walls are the perfect way to show your personality in your home decor. For my wall I wanted to use photos of Kyle and I, because I’m slightly obsessed with family photos. I chose the giant “E” to showcase our last name and the hello and hi signs because I love the word ‘hello’. One of my favorite pieces of decor is my Utah Utes sign that my sister in law had made for me last year at Christmas. What I love about it, is that it fits my family, it shows my love of Utah Utes, it has our name on it, and it is a personalized quote that is the farmhouse style. I suggest once you have your theme, find a company that can do personalized items for a fun family quote.
5 – Plan Your Other Living Room Decor To Match Your Gallery Wall: Make sure to plan ahead of time, what you are putting below your gallery wall. I knew that I wanted to find a cute end table to go below, but that also meant that whatever decor I put on the table had to match the gallery wall as well as not be too tall to overwhelm the gallery wall.
6 – Know What Photos You Are Using: This is a tip I wish I had thought of before I started this whole process. I had created the whole wall and then went to choose which photos I wanted, and unfortunately some of the photos I had wanted to display would not have worked with my outline. I had too many vertical positioned photos I wanted to display, and had too many horizontal spots available. It ended up working out just fine, but there are definitely other photos I would’ve loved to use if I had thought ahead.
7 – Get High Quality Photos and Canvases – I was so grateful I went with Canvas on Demand for printing my photos. They have amazing quality and the photo quality was incredible. I was so impressed with how easy it was to use their online system to order and how quickly it shipped to me! They have a variety of sizes as well, which helped when I was planning my wall. It didn’t limit my creativity or vision.
I will link where I found everything below! Don’t hesitate to comment below with any questions you may have! And as always….remember to pin away!
Special Thanks to Charissa Lee Photography for helping take these wonderful photos of my living room.
Also special shoutout to Urban Farm Girl who was a big part of the inspiration on this wall.
Decorations Available Here:
Canvases – Canvas On Demand
End Table – Hobby Lobby
Decorations from Rod Works Include – Flower Container, Topiary, Glass Milk Jars with Basket, and White Lantern
Utah Utes Sign – Freckled Fox by Jess
Thankful Sign – Royal Sign and Design (Use code “Ellis20” for 20% off your purchase and free shipping on orders over $125)
Pillow – Eighth and Main
Hobby Lobby Decoration – Ampersand Sign, Hello Sign, Metal E, You and Me Sign, hi decoration, Globe
Family Cross Stitch – Family Stitch
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Some of my other favorite home decor items are:
Felt Boards, Old Wood Bowl, Floor Plant, Cute Bookshelf, Hand Woven Rug, You are My Sunshine Sign
It’s so cute!! 🙂
Thanks Ashley! I was so excited with how it turned out!
Omg! I love this wall so much! I am dying to create a wall collage. Thanks for the tips!!
Of course! Thanks for stopping by! I hope they help when you create your own! xoxo
This is so cute! Love it .
Thank you so much! I was really happy with how it turned out! xoxo
Your wall turned out cute but you straight up knocked this idea off of urban farmgirl. I was creating my gallery wall off of hers too. Maybe you should post that somewhere
Yeah I saw hers, but tried to change mine up from hers a little bit because I didn’t want to copy it exactly! I liked to add a longer pot holder along with adding a quote on the top right corner and then adding in an additional photo. I actually found a lot of different gallery walls for my idea, but I can definitely go in and add the ones that inspired me in my blog post if you’d like to see! Thanks for the suggestion! xoxo
I’ve wanted a gallery wall in my house for so long now but the thought always intimidates me! You made it sound a little bit easier, so I think I’ll actually give it a shot. It makes me feel better that I don’t have to rush the process and can just start collecting pieces and then make a plan from there.
Oh I’m so glad! YES! You can totally do it! It took me awhile before I found all the pieces, but once I did and planned it out, it worked out so much better. Good luck with yours! Let me know if you ever need advice or help! I’m totally here! xoxo
That’s so cute! LOVE the modern farmhouse look. 🙂
Thanks! I am loving the farmhouse look right now, but I wanted to make it modern, so I’m glad it worked out! xoxo
Great ideas!! I like the wall mount galvanized bucket. Love wall galleries,slowly working on my own
It is such a process, so I totally get it when you say “slowly working on mine”. Good luck! xoxo
I love how this turned out! Planning ahead is really helpful. We planned out our gallery wall on the floor before we hung it up so we could measure and space everything. I love the diversity in your wall!
It really is the best tip I could give! I’d love to see your gallery wall sometime! xoxo
This wall and room is soooo cute!!!!
Awe thank you! I’m so glad you love it! xoxo
Loving your gallery wall! It looks fantastic xx
Thank you so much! xoxo
YES TO THIS POST KARLI! I learned so much about approaching a gallery wall (they have always seen so intimidating to me) and I loved seeing how you did yours!
Thanks Chelsie! I’m so glad it helped! I was happy with how it came together. They can be sooo daunting, but it worked out! xoxo
Karli, you have such a talent! I love this happy space you’ve created.
Awe Kim! You just made my day! Thank you so much. I was happy with how it turned out! xoxo
Your gallery wall looks SO good!
You are so sweet! Thank you! I was so happy with how it turned out! xoxo
Oh, how cute! I really love this idea and I think photos on canvas are such fun ways to display them. Love your globe – that’s a favorite quote of mine. 🙂
I love the globe too! It’s such a good quote! Thanks for all your kind comments! xoxo
I LOVE gallery walls and i’m maybe a bit too obsessed with them ! I have them on many many walls in my apartment. I LOVE the variation in textures and mediums that you have on your wall. I’m so inspired!
Oh I’m so glad you are inspired by it. I spent a lot of time finding just the right pieces, so I’m so happy to hear you love it! Thanks! xoxo
I love your gallery wall! It looks like it came straight from Pinterest!
Kim
Simply Lovebirds
You are sweet! I got a lot of ideas from Pinterest! Thank goodness for it right? xoxo
Thanks for sharing the link for the canvases! What sizes did you use?
For the gold dress photo I got size 18×12, for the other two I got size 16×20! Hopefully that helps! xoxo