DIY: gallery wall.

one of the cool things about living with your sister is that you have the same family, so you can put up family photos in the mutual living spaces in your house. after seeing this pin on pinterest, we decided to give it a go.

on friday night, we stopped at michael's to pick up the frames. we opted to get the 10x10 frames in black because they were $2 cheaper than the 12x12 and hey, $18 is a lot of money! i also bought a pack of 12x12 white card stock to use as the background.

when we got home, we cut the paper to 10x10 and decided to go ahead and figure out how to hang these suckers. obviously, the spacing of these frames was important. we figured it out like this..

• measured the entire wall side to side. we divided the side to side measurement by 4, and marked each 1/4 spot along the wall, so really, you have 5 "lines," 3 being actual lines and 2 being the walls. the 3 lines that were actually marked were the vertical lines that we placed the frames on.

• once we had the vertical lines figured out, we had to figure out how high we wanted the highest set of frames to go & how low we wanted the lowest set to go. we decided we would rather have the higher set higher, so we measured from the higher point (not the ceiling) and followed the same measuring as step 1.

i printed off two copies of each picture at rite aid. originally, we wanted to do 5x5 squares, but buying 5x7 prints was like $70 vs. the $10 i spent on the 4x6 prints. no brainer there. i trimmed the photos to make them as close to a 4x4 as i could. i simply taped the photo in the center of the white paper & inserted it into the frame. voila! 

total cost: about $60

and for a closer look at what freaks we are for 1. taking some of these pics and 2. for hanging them in our home...

{grand canyon!}

{this was taken in public. yikes.}

{in the running for my all time favorite picture}