photo wall.

The hardest part of redecorating was my photo wall. After searching and hunting, and pouring over tons of inspiration like...

I am horrible about right clicking and saving images I fall in love with.

I don't remember where I found all of these wonderful images of inspiration. Sorry!

Here is my wall, which is a "living wall"...AKA it will be added to updated along the way!

Our house is now a home!

After months of a slow remodeling process, we finally have our living room done!

The thing I love the most, is many of the frames, vases and candles are from our wedding. I love that I get to see those items everyday.

slowly but surely...

When Lane moved into our house, everything was painted by the previous owners. At that time, the colors matched everything he had. It was perfect, because he could move right in without painting a thing.

Come with me 2 years later....he has his man movie-football cave downstairs. He painted it a dark red, naturally for a movie room. But now, I stare at our living room wall (and yes I say just wall, as only wall is red in our living room), and feel like I live in a dungeon. I have fantasized about painting this wall. I want our living room to resemble just that...life! Not a death blood red! I have slowly, but surely, redecorated here and there. I am using many items from our vintage themed wedding, and plan on repurposing many items to fit into the new theme. So nothing is better than pictures right?

Here is the before, before picture of our wall.

it must change!

and here is the before paint.

our wedding cake toppers.

our wedding pictures! The candles are from our reception. Find the DIY link here.

the candle stick holder was from the thrift store. I was going to spray paint it, but loved the way it looked. The candles are the candles we used to light our unity candle.

who doesn't love vintage spools of thread and buttons!

again another candle from our reception and the oil lamp from our reception decor too!

my newest addition! I found this ladder at an antique store when I took my mom on her surprise birthday weekend. She bought it for me for my birthday (on the 19th). Only my mom would buy me a present on her birthday! My veil is draped on the top (find the DIY here) and a blanket Lane's aunt made for him.

Like I said, slowly but surely, it's coming along. With this fall weather, I hope that Lane and his dad get that wall painted.

I was thinking of a vintage blue color...what do you think?

been there, now what?

So now the wedding is over...and all those decorations you spent months on are just sitting there...what to do, what to do!

Being an "enviroment" lover, I don't like throwing things away to just sit in a landfill for the rest of our lives. I try to reuse, repurpose, upcycle, etc. as many things as I can. I took many of my decorations and reused them in our home decor. What a great feeling knowing that all the time I put into these decorations won't be in vain and will now be a part of my home decor. I will be reminded of our day each time I see these items around the house.

1.) church door decor

checkout the DIY here

now decorates 2 square selves in our bedroom.

2.) birdcage for cards: this was a horrible hunter green color when I bought it from the Salvation Army. With a little white spray and two cute little lovebirds from the Dollar Tree, it quickly became a super cute card holder!
checkout the DIY here

now hangs in our spare bedroom!

3.) wine bottles from bridal shower, and mason jars from reception centerpieces

checkout the post here

now add to our wine kitchen theme!

and serve as storage containers in my craft room!

4.) votive candles used on tables at reception
checkout the DIY here

now decorate our dresser in our guest bedroom

5.) flash card table numbers

go back to their flash card buddies in my classroom!

6. flower cameo accessories

now are earrings and a necklace or pin!

7. tea cup ring pillow

is now a pin cushion for my craft room!

8. our cake toppers

now adorn our fireplace mantel.

9. family heritage photos

 (waiting for pictures to come back so I can post a picture of the heritage table!)

will soon be put into a wall photo cluster above our couch (once we get it repainted)

 similiar to this...

photos from littleloveables

10. guestbook

checkout the DIY here

now adds decoration to "our" or more like his, movie room and man cave!

I'm so glad I was able to reuse, repurpose, etc. some of our decorations. Now I just need to figure out what to do with photo pew decor...any ideas?