My Office Gallery Wall

My office is nearly complete now that my feminine colorful gallery wall is hung! Today I’m sharing how I created the wall from start to finish.

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Happy Friday y’all! I hope everyone had an amazing week! I can’t really complain, but I will say I am beyond ready for the weekend! Keeneland officially kicks off & I have a date with the Mister. Tyler & I have had a crazy busy month, so we’re taking a well overdue night to ourselves.

But let’s chat all about gallery walls shall we?! My office has been a labor of love y’all. From stripping wallpaper, to painting, etc., it has been a process. Once the room was painted I was finally able to see a vision. (See my premature vision here!) But there was one blank wall that I knew I wanted to fill with a gallery wall. I wanted it to make a statement, to be fun, colorful & feminine. I’ll be honest though I wasn’t quite sure where to start.

After doing a little research, pulling pieces & putting this gallery wall together I’ve combined a few tips I thought I would share.

My Tips for Creating a Gallery Wall:

1. Do a little product research (aka SHOPPING 😂) so you can get an idea of what you like and what you don’t like. This helped me realize I wanted a mix & match of styles of art.
2. Pick one statement piece to work around. For me, this Laura Park Design canvas was my statement piece. Once I chose it, every other piece I picked had to work well with it.
3. Create a vision board to make sure all of the pieces work well together. Take screenshots of the pieces you like! Once I had screenshots I put them all together on a blank document of sorts. I used photoshop, but I am sure Canva or PicMonkey would work just fine! This allows you to see all of the pieces in one place, and made it easy to form the order & layout of the pieces. This also helps when ordering different sizes of different prints.
4. Take measurements! You’ll want to fill your space to your preference, and this will ensure you order sizes accordingly. For me, I wanted a less symmetrical, but closely formed group that took up most of the wall.
5. Mock up your gallery wall. This was a tip so many gals sent to me on Instagram and it was so helpful. I am sure there are tutorials on Pinterest, but the short version:: once you receive your art, use wrapping paper or something like it to trace out the pieces of art. Tape them to the wall in their rightful positions.
6. Hammer away. Some suggested command strips, which would also be easy, but I didn’t have any around the house.

And there you have it! I’m no DIY blogger, but these were the steps I followed so hopefully they will be helpful to you if you’re looking to create a gallery wall for yourself.

*All artwork was gifted to G&G