![]() ![]() I don’t know if you’ve tried them at all for heavier frames. Yikes! Not even picture hooks? BTW, I use a lot of the 3M velcro picture hangers and they work really well. Thanks for the extra info on Australia rental restrictions. And you know, plain white frames on a painted wall looks great too – if you’re the type to like that sort of thing? Anyways, I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with it. And painting one of the walls a stand-out colour as well to distract from the back. And to be honest, I think I’d be looking at putting a circular table in there rather than a long table to break the lines. ![]() Ever since you had the picture of your what you were going to do with your table, I’ve been thinking about how I would handle it. ![]() Your long room kitchen/dining is one of those difficult to decorate rooms, because all the lines draws your eye up to the kitchen cabinets and the one lone window – which are not strikingly attractive. And generally you can’t get permission to paint or etc. Although I’ve still had some painting falling down breaking the glass adventures with them. Most of us who put up pictures (and don’t have picture rails) put them up with 3M adhesive picture hooks that can hold up to 2kg. I can confirm – in Australia you’re not allowed to put holes in the wall in rental places – that includes putting up hooks for pictures as well. Have you ever had a total failure with wall anchors? I didn’t realize that drywall came in different thicknesses. Now we have a bigger challenge: Ryan and I have to agree on some more art for the gallery wall!Īnd because January is the month of “finishing abandoned tasks,” I have to at least get the frames hung. It’s annoying that I have to patch the wall now, and then touch up the paint – but sometimes you have to just try a design idea in order to know it’s not the right one. Ryan agreed, and we decided to just extend the gallery wall concept for the entire stretch of that wall. So it sat there for a few days, and do you know what? I realized that I didn’t like the shelf there. I think I needed longer anchors, for thicker drywall, but I didn’t feel like going to buy some right then. What you can’t see is how it was such an epic failure.įor some reason my anchors wouldn’t lodge in the wall, so the shelf was just hanging on by a thread. In the photo above, you can see where I hung the shelf over the island. I was pretty proud of my color-matching ability. I stained it a few times, adding different stains until it was practically the same color as our cabinetry. I saved money by using an existing board from my stash in the basement. They’re sturdy enough to keep the shelf supported well, but low-profile enough to work with our existing decor. The Container Store came to our rescue with an awesome set of shelf clip brackets. Chunky floating shelves – too many complaints about sagging and instability. We looked at all the different shelves online. (Sidenote: I have no idea how I ended up collecting vintage cream pitchers. In October I thought we’d finally come up with a solution: A small gallery wall in the left side of the dining area (below), and a shelf over the random kitchen island on which to display my awesome collection of vintage cream pitchers. I have been struggling with how best to use the dining room/kitchen wall space for the three years we’ve lived in this house. ![]()
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