Showing posts with label Wall Decorations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wall Decorations. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

That random huge freaking blank spot on the wall.

So there's this wall between the living room and the dining room that I'm struggling with. It's a large space, but it straddles two "areas" (we have an open-concept house so there are no natural boundaries between the rooms except flooring and lighting) so I want to make sure that whatever gets placed there can conceivably work in both spaces.

Plus it has to be pretty. Duh.




Originally I was going to hang a photo frame there with a picture of our adorable little family but it wasn't big enough - it would have looked awfully lonesome and awkward all by itself.

So I started brainstorming. And here's what I came up with:

Option A: 
Buy/make three large framed posters that represent the three states/cities we've lived in so far and space them evenly apart. 

After trolling around Etsy for a few hours one Saturday, I found some possibilities that could work.

I like the idea of this one, but I'm not sure about the colors. I feel like they clash - big time. That would make my eyes hurt, and we don't want to injure my pretty little retinas.



So I really, really like the design of these two (and the colors don't make me want to stab my eyeballs!!), but I couldn't find a matching one for Cincinnati and/or Ohio. However, the Etsy shop owner mentioned that they're willing to do custom jobs, so perhaps I could coerce him/her into making a special one just for me. :)




These are kind of cool (although upon further reflection the two intersecting lines make it look like they're bombing targets) but again I could only find two locations out of the three!! What is with these shops and not representing all of my 'hoods?! Blah. At the very least I could request a custom one from the shop owner...


Option B:
Make/buy one humungous statement piece and/or painting.

This one would likely be the pricier of the two options. Big paintings cost lots of $$$$$$$ and ones that I like are super-duper hard to come by.

Although this one is kind of cool (love the textures!):




Even if I make something myself, it will require a significant sacrifice of time. Like any true arteest, I need to be inspired to create something magnificent and will settle for nothing less. I actually did end up buying a large canvas, but inspiration just hasn't struck me yet. Until it does, it will continue collecting dust in our office.




Or maybe I could get one of my many photographs super-sized and put on canvas. Wouldn't that be something?


What do you guys think? Option A or Option B? Or is there a whole 'nother option I haven't even thought of yet?