I'm so excited to share our basement with you! After 10 months of nothing on the walls I used Deid and Chris's visit as motivation to change that. Nothing like a deadline to get things accomplished! We had worked hard to brighten up this part of the house. It started out like this:
We textured and painted over the paneling, but after it was done I wasn't in love with my paint choice (Valspar Azure Snow). I was going for a bluish-grey, but it felt a little baby boy-ish to me once it was on the walls. Honestly, there was no way I was going to repaint and it was either a happy accident, or just wasn't a bad pick to begin with. Cause it turned out looking good in the end with the pops of color on it.
I had planned to make a large gallery wall on the end, and painted all of my black frames white to use. Only after they were painted did I realize a gallery wall wasn't going to work. But I did have a lot of white frames to work with. So we hung 2 shelves we had kicking around from our apartment days and I pulled pieces from the depths of the craft room to create this:
I don't know what it says about me that I had most of this stuff tucked away (although I did print off a couple of the prints here at home) but it was so fun to be able to decorate with what I already had. There are benefits to never throwing things away.
Sources:
Pink frame Poppy Seed Projects
We Can Do Hard Things, by me
Bird from the dollar store and painted pink
Chalkboard tray, a gift from my mom
Sources:
Art in the pink frame was the back of a card
Paper mache pig from Michael's and painted green
S from Poppy Seed Projects
Picture of Old Main, by me
Stars are from Pier 1, received as a gift years ago
I did pick up 2 frames at the thrift store for a dollar each, bringing my total for this wall to $2!
We still need to add more pillows to the day bed and work on the other end of the room, but for now I'm declaring this space a success!
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