Happy Photo Friday! It has been a few weeks, but I am trying to get back in the swing of posting one of my favorite photos each Friday. I took this picture while we were honeymooning in Italy. We were making the hike through the 5 islands of Cinque Terre. This is a shot of Monterosso. Oh how I can’t wait to go back to Italy one day!
Have a great weekend! We will be back Monday with some home improvement blog post.
Before the husband and I first moved in together we decided we wanted three black and white photos for our bedroom. We narrowed our personal photos down to a picture from the cherry blossom festival, a trip to mexico and one we took while in New York on the Brooklyn bridge. My friend helped me use PhotoShop to make modify the color pictures to black and white. I uploaded them to Shutterfly, clicked purchased and we were in business!
These are the pictures we chose …
The husband and I went to a couple of framing stores to get quotes on getting the pictures matted and framed. We were looking at ~$200+ per picture for custom framing … WAY too much! The three pictures then spent the next 2 years in a photo album. From time to time we would revisit the idea of having the pictures framed, but never made any actual progress. Last week we found a new location for our pictures … the hallway! I found this post on Young House Love and was inspired. Although I am not ready to take on the whole wall I do love pictures and have some other items that would work for a wall collage.
In any event we decide these three black and white photos were a good place to start with hallway decorations. Since Amazon Prime is like my favorite thing I decided to see if there were any nice 8×10 matted frames on Amazon before going to Michael’s or a custom framing store. I quickly found these picture frames and $17-18 per frame was totally justifiable and the wallet was way more comfortable with it as well!!!
After preparing for Hurricane Sandy Sunday (filling the cars with gas, getting food/water, laundry, dishes, charging every electronic we have and all that good stuff) we took some time out to hang our photos in the hallway. It took a few tries (three to be exact) but eventually we got the two lower pictures level with each other.
It’s nice to see the hallway starting to come together. Whether or not we decide to pursue the whole collage look for the hallway is still TBD, but at least there is something on the wall for now :)
Next up is to purchase a runner for the hallway!!
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This picture was taken when the husband and I were walking across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. I thought the little “love me” sticker was so cute and just couldn’t help but snap the picture.
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This picture was taken back in April of 2010. My sister-in-law and her husband came to town for a visit and we decided to walk down town and check out the cherry blossoms. They were great that year and this is my favorite picture from the day! We got this picture blown up to an 8×10 and matted/framed it. The plan is to hang the picture in our hallway at some point soon!
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This picture was taken just a few weeks back. We had just purchased these pillows from Crate & Barrel and Sophi took a liking to them immediately. She started by squeezing herself in between the arm of the couch and the pillow. My puppy is such a cutie!!
The husband thinks we will have a mutiny on our hands if we ever get rid of these pillows hahaha. I mean look how sad she is when I pulled the pillow away from her ….
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