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Create An Eclectic Gallery Wall!

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Create An Eclectic Gallery Wall! A gallery wall is a great way to add personalization, interest, color, and style to your home or work space. One easy way to make a gallery wall is to create one around a central theme. Old maps, vintage flea market art, needlepoint samplers, vintage paint by numbers - all make interesting themes for gallery walls. What's your passion? Gallery walls are a great way to display personal collections: don't keep those vintage family photos in a drawer - display them as a gallery wall with a collection of unique frames. Aside from displaying art that has a similar theme, another way to create a gallery grouping is to create a display that is tied together by color. Here are some other ideas of gallery wall groupings: Vintage flea market & thrift shop art - makes a great Bohemian style display! Old maps: this is even better if they have a personal meaning: how about maps of all the places you've lived or visited? Hand stitched needlepoint...

Create a vintage bedroom

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Create a vintage bedroom Forget the stresses and strains of modern life and escape to a pretty vintage bedroom with tons of retro appeal. Feminine and completely charming, a vintage bedroom is also easy and surprisingly inexpensive to create. Our decorating tips will make light work of recreating a traditional vintage bedroom through classic colour schemes, delicate accessories and homemade extras that will give your bedroom a personal and unique touch. Vintage style isn’t about having the latest trend or must-have technology, so why not consider making some of your accessories and soft furnishings yourself? This can also be a fun way to decorate a room, with greater satisfaction at the end. Start by making a lace blind. Hanging a single lace panel over your window is such a simple but effective way of achieving that sort-after vintage look. Once you are feeling more confident in your creative skills, you can try something a bit trickier, such as stenciling a wall panel behind a d...