Nooshing Around: Photo Frame Project

I've been looking for some ideas to decorate the wall of my bed room for quite some time. Ideally I would have liked to buy a beautiful painting and hang it above my bed, BUT the inability of me and my hubby coming into an agreement on what sort of a painting to get and the lack of dollars, I thought let's do some research and do a DIY project, something that won't break the bank.

So one fine morning at work, I needed a distraction from my work load so I was quickly checking out, Fresh Home Ideas and I came across this 6 fun photo projects.

I absolutely love the gallery style photo walls but the shape of the heart yelled out "unique! unique! unique!". I immediately emailed the picture to my other half and to my utmost surprise he agreed! I did send couple of follow through emails saying,

"are you sure?"

"not too novelty?"

"not too girly?"

but he said he likes it!

Okay now this is what my bedroom looked before. I painted a feature wall in our bedroom to match the feature tiling in the en-suite bathroom. Worked out pretty well.

I counted the frames in the picture and there were 36 frames. I had to do this project on a budget, so I did some research and I came across these in IKEA. They were perfect!

I bought myself 12 packs of frames and some 3M hooks to hang them in because there is no way I would drill 36 holes on the wall. The 3M hooks were $8 a pack and there were 20 hooks in the pack. Brilliant find!

I started unpacking the frames and starting laying them on the bed to see if it really comes out to look like a heart.

It sort of does..

Awwwwww and this is my poor hubby holding his shin. I was too short to take an overall photo of the frames on the bed so I asked him to give me a lift. One thing led to another and we both fell and he hit his shin on the edge of the bed. Not too hard but he is known to be a teeny bit of a drama queen.. Had to capture the moment :)

I didn't quite like the look of the raw pine against the grey wall so I thought it would be good to paint them black. After a quick trip to Bunnings and a black paint for $10, I painted all the frames in black.

The weekend after, it was the 'hanging time'. I haven't really worked out what photos I am going to put the frames so I thought I'll hang the empty frames for the time being.

I marked the centre point of the bed head with a painters tape..

I used blue tac to stick the frames to the wall before I used the 3M hooks because it allowed me to play around with the spacing to get the shape right. I also stuck a piece of painters tape on the blu tac that's in the middle so when I stick it on the wall, it will mark where I need to stick the 3M hooks.