Wall Collage

I mentioned we moved into a new house.  Well new to us.  I am going to be SLOWLY changing rooms around.  We got a new sofa and chairs in our living room about two weeks after moving in.  This was our first of many BIG purchases for the new house.  We actually had not bought new living room furniture…well ever.  I had a couch from college that I loved.  We still have it now in our media room.  It is perfect in there because it is big, fluffy, and reclines.  After we got the new furniture in I quickly noticed how bare and big the wall behind the couch looked. 

First order of business, figure out a solution to the problem.  I have several pictures from vacations that I love and wanted to somehow incorporate them into a collage of sorts.  I started looking on Pinterest and then saw something in a magazine. 

When I saw this picture I just loved the different sizing and how each picture was large.  I also loved how it was themed.  In this case, by groups of people.  I got to looking through pictures from Hawaii and from St. Thomas and other beach vacations.  I love the beach theme and island theme.  It brings a feeling of relaxation that would be perfect for any living space.  *in my opinion.  I got on my trusty website for ordering pictures and frames  www.mpix.com. Love them.  Have ordered tons of stuff from them.  I already had a big picture of Mason above the fireplace and some pictures from our wedding on another wall and wanted to match the frames. 

The toughest part was deciding all the sizes for the pictures I wanted to have.  I got on the website and proceeded to play with masking tape.  I finally decided on this:

I then added to the middle picture an extra three inches for matting and frames.  I had almost forgotten and that could have been bad, but I think it will end up looking great.  Fingers crossed.  I decided on 1-10x20, 2-5x15s, 2-11x14, and 1-8x12.  The tape just shows the print size and now the frames.  I also decided to use these photos.  This is the big one.

Once I get them in this week, I will post a final of the behind the sofa look.