Living Room Gallery Wall
{My personal layout for the living room gallery wall}
I’m currently working on living room gallery wall. I love gallery walls, but sometimes you can go all over the place with them. I like doing little mock-ups so that I can add/take away prints and figure out the best arrangement before I start purchasing everything.
Many people have emailed me asking me how I do my little mock-ups. A majority of people use OlioBoard, My Deco or Photoshop. I took a photoshop class and learned a little bit, but I still need more help to get collages done. So I use…POWERPOINT. Silly I know, but it’s easy for me to use and it works. I just save all of my images and start adding them to a powerpoint slide and play around the size and layout. Then I save it as a jpeg and voila I have an image for my blog. That’s all there is to it. Hope that helps!
P.S. My google drama continues. I was able to gain access to my google accounts yesterday. Wonderful at first, but then I realized that while I could log on to my old blog on blogger I was no longer the administrator or author. Enter lots of stress. The hacker is now adding google ad sense, taking articles from this blog and posting it there and changing the layout. I’m working on getting it fixed, but since you can’t get a live person at google it’s taking a while. I’m so sorry if you still follow High-Heel Foot in the door in google reader or RSS feed. Yesterday about 20 posts got sent to those people all at once.
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My living room is one of the rooms that evolved drastically from when we first moved one. Originally I painted the walls chocolate brown and did accents of white, blue and orange. That lasted maybe 2 years.
Our dining room sat empty for months. Okay maybe it was empty for just a handful of weeks and then we couldn’t take it anymore and put in a folding table and plastic outdoor chairs, but in my mind that was still empty.
On the main floor of our house we have a Florida room. Being that it’s a Florida room it is a considered a 3 season room, because there is no heat in the room. The previous owners used it as an indoor patio with outdoor furniture and it looked like this when we moved in.
Beautiful gallery wall! Thanks for the info on OlioBoard and MyDeco; I didn’t know about those. Sorry the hack is still hacking away – how frustrating!
haha… i use powerpoint too…thought i was the only silly one! but i mean hey if it works, it works!
I totally play around in powerpoint too… it’s simple and it works!
I love these prints… where is that second one from the left on the top from??
I am so sorry to hear about your email issues. Someone hacked into my yahoo account a few years ago and I was devastated at the thought of losing everything. I said then that I would utilize moving all my emails into outlook, which I never did because of the cost, but now that it has been brought back up with your issue, I think I should do it now. I hope you get everything back up and running correctly very soon! I’ll be thinking about you. I know how stressful it can be.
Thanks for the heads up on Powerpoint! I have been using Polyvore and am currently in the midst of an on line Photoshop class in hopes of making my inspirtation boards better. Yours always look great.
Sorry to hear about your trials and tribulations with your Google account, that is like having a home break-in…. hang in there and I hope it all gets straightened out.
Cathy
Sorry about the Google issue. I too use PowerPoint for design/inspiration boards – it’s easy and I can easily edit them.
I’m a PowerPoint girl, too. Glad to know I’m in good company.
I totally love Olioboard!!! Best idea since Polyvore!!
Such cute pictures! Are they to scale? If so, then have you tried putting one of the bigger pieces on top? I’m thinking the B&W umbrella pic up top, between the $ and the bathers. Then move the “Oh Darling” quote to the first spot in the second row.
Still working on sizes for everything. A lot of them I can get sized to what I need. Thanks for the layout recommendations! So sweet. xo, C
I use powerpoint too but have it on my “to do” list to look into those other tools – sometime soon! I did a post recently about gallery walls if you want some more inspiration, although it looks like you are off to a beautiful start!
http://bjdhausdesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/gorgeous-gallery-walls.html
Hey thanks for the PowerPoint tip! I will try it as I had the same experience with Photoshop. Hope you sort your google problems! What a mess for you.
Lynn from Decor Arts Now