one wall complete!

I finally finished decorating one of the bare walls in our apartment, and I'm super excited about it. A few months ago, Napoleon and I were brainstorming fun, quirky ideas that we could both agree on. I found these random resin animal heads on the ZGallerie website, and we both decided we needed them. They weren't cheap, but I had a coupon code, so I went for it and bought the deer, ram, moose, and rhino (I don't think the rhino is available anymore, and it's my favorite of them all, so I'm glad I got it in time!).

It took almost 2 months to get them all shipped and in the apartment because a couple of them were back ordered. The last one arrived this past week, so I went to work on the rest of the wall!

I purchased a bunch of cheap frames from Home Goods, and spray painted them a flat white. I did learn the hard way that, despite using a drop cloth, spray painting in the home is never a good idea. I'm just glad we have a balcony that's somewhat big enough to use for projects!

Originally, Napoleon and I thought we wanted to frame silhouettes of other animals, like the wall that ZGallerie staged to promote the resin animals (see below)...

I put it all together and staged the frames and animals on the floor in our living room. I didn't like it. The framed animals reminded me too much of a nursery (which I need to remember for whenever we have kids!). So instead, I replaced the animals with some scrapbook paper with fun designs on them. This is the project in process...

I think I've now learned the hard way that it's MUCH easier to put a lot of work in on the front end, when it comes to hanging things properly. So it took me a couple hours, but I installed fasteners on the backs of each frame, and then did a bunch of measurements and diagramed exactly where I wanted everything to go on the wall. It was well worth it! With some teamwork from Napoleon, the actual hanging process went really quick, and I'm so happy with the end result!

It was late and dark out when I took the pictures, so I'll have to take better ones in natural light. I do feel a big sense of accomplishment now that one wall is finally complete! Now onto the next one...