After living through the dusty hell of having every wall in our house re-plastered and finished, I can hopefully be forgiven for being a tiny bit precious about putting holes in my new walls. The difficulty I have with hanging stuff on the walls is further compounded by the fact that the walls are all concrete, I can’t actually go buck-wild with a hammer, it’s just not possible. Decorating this house requires planning {and Dave and his drill}.
I realized yesterday that things were looking a little sterile, and there was one little project that had been on my to-do list once I had my very own house…..
Much better! There’s personality now and and a great heaping dose of JACK-ness. All of the items I used have meaning to us and make our new house feel like our home, something that’s hard to achieve without little reminders here and there of what makes us a family.
Tips:
- I would highly recommend measuring the wall space you are going to use and masking it out on the floor. This will help you work out your arrangement and space requirements
- Don’t start until you have finished your collection of art, pics and curios for the project
- Have a range of removable sticky hooks on hand so you can minimize the holes in the wall
- DON’T use a tape measure!
- Do use different mediums
- Don’t rush. This project took me HOURS, and I rearranged things multiple times
What I used & what they mean to us
- My Mum and Dad’s personalized plate, Dad had this on his truck for years x
- Water color of Moonlight Beach, Encinitas CA. This was painted by a family friend, is where we lived in San Diego, where Ethan was born and where we began our life as a family
- Tile from Portugal, gifted from our old neighbor Fred for looking after his dog
- Tile gifted from Abby for looking after her Rabbit
- Snapper ink print, purchased with Tara during our 2012 summer holiday
- Wavemasters Surfing Trophy – My Florida family
- Old Timex clock from our first apartment in San Diego – this has been in every house we have lived in together!
- Family portrait in Northland Kauri Forest, pic by Tara
- Paua from a wedding I shot
- Dave’s last Florida license plate – I have moaned at Dave 100’s of times about this dirty old thing, but now I’m glad he kept it ; )
- oops forgot 11
- Ethan’s one and only Dave-supervised kindy photo. Wet hair. Sigh
- Wavemasters Service trophy
- Water color of the Auckland skyline – gift from my Aunty and Uncle as I was preparing to leave New Zealand 12 years ago
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