Monday, January 24, 2011

white walls = boring

Our apartment has lots and lots of bare white walls.
It drives me nutso!
Here are some thoughts I've had on adding some color (we can't paint- darn it all) to those boring things.
A simple picture collage - because you know how many cute nieces and nephew we have. And how we go to cool places sometimes.



Some vinyl options...

A large canvas print?

Speaking of which, my sister-in-law craft/creative woman extraordinaire showed me the coolest thing this weekend (we visited her family in PA). This summer when we were all in Idaho Falls for the fierce reunion, we went to the IF temple visitors center, and they had these really amazing Hubble Telescope photos. There was one in particular that we all just fell in love with. The colors were amazing, but more amazing was that it was a picture of the birth of a star - so cool! 
Valerie kept joking about stealing it off the wall and taking it home. 
Well, she did. Just kidding, she didn't, but she went and found the photo and had it printed on a huge canvas- it looks amazing! I'm excited to see where it ends up in their cute house. 
And apparently, the Hubble photos are free to download in all different sizes right here. (Val's was the Carina - AMAZING).

Find a friend who is an amazing artist and paints me something like this? via design sponge.


If I was loaded, I would go with an Ann Carrington masterpiece (like the Queen).
 Did anyone else watch 9 by Design? They love her stuff.


Or a catchy print?  via Oh Joy

What do you do with your naked walls - especially in apartments where changes can't be permanent?
Please help!

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