Three posts in less than two weeks. I know! Is she high.... demented..on crack? (maybe just spring break)
I've been waiting for literally months for Bert to send me the final pictures of this project I devised well over a year ago. She just sent them so I'm super excited.
It all started clear back in Christmas of 11 when Bert and Gordon came down for a visit. She kept commenting that she felt she didn't have an eye for arranging things in her house, and that she really wanted a place to better display all her family photos.
I hatched a plan for what I hoped would be a "foolproof" way to arrange and change family photos and also camouflage the heater and cooler that were so high profile on her wall.
This first shot is one I photoshoped together from one's that she had sent me showing her "feature" wall painted a barely there sage green. (note all the photos on the piano and the giant swamp cooler on the wall)
I did a Photoshop mock up of this tree and photo frames, and removed the pictures from her piano. She and Gordon liked it enough to trust me to come up and paint it on!
Here is her real living room after I painted the tree last May using $3 worth of paint from a thrift store mixed with some I already had. It isn't the exact color I would have chosen, but given the budget I thought it was great!
While she was here in Tucson we had also gone on thrift store hunts for cheap frames we could paint all the same color, so while I was there in May we found just the right dark Olive color and I also painted all the frames.
That is where my part ended. I left her house like this, and it was up to her to get all her photos in black and white and arrange them on the tree using the "rules" I had given her. I've been waiting for the "after"pictures ever since.
Here are the shots she just sent, and I think she did a GREAT job! Now she can have lots of photos of family and that wall isn't all about the swamp cooler. It was a lot of fun figuring out what might solve this visual dilemma and getting to actually do it!
4 comments:
Oh that is COOL! Way to go both Celiac and Bert. That's like a thousand percent improvement. I LOVE IT!
How nice to finally see the end product.
That is exciting! That is a BIG project...nicely done ladies!
I love that tree better than the mock one by leaps and bounds. You did a great job. She has a pretty sweet set up there now. Lucky!
I Love It!
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