I’d been at a loss for some artwork for our bedroom wall. We had one picture on the wall in our previous house, and that wasn’t right for here so I needed to come up with something else. And I really wasn’t sure.
In the end I took inspiration from an existing picture we had - remember back in March 2020 I shared a photo of mine that finally got on the wall with some help from Photowall?
But I wasn’t sure if where I had in mind would work, so I mocked it up.
And so for the next few weeks or so, I tweaked their positions - up a bit, down a bit, together a bit more and so on. Finally I was happy and then my attention turned to choosing the images.
We had the rocks from our holiday in Cornwall back in 2014, and I knew I had a picture of storks nesting from a holiday in Portugal. But what else? The good news is I found some.
And I used Photowall again, this time paying for my additional three images to be framed.
The service was still good, and it was easy to upload my images and create my artwork, though I hadn’t realised that they’d changed their frames so the three new frames are a slightly different finish to the one I already had. I was disappointed that the frames and pictures came separately though, and I had to assemble them myself once they arrived - not a huge thing, but a definite difference to my previous experience.
That said, I’m still very happy with the end result. Of course when they arrived I spent more than intended on their layout - thankfully for MOH on the carpet rather than the wall (as there was also a difference in the positioning of the sawtooth picture hanger).
I decided on this layout.
And don’t they look great on the wall?
MOH did a great job, under extreme pressure to get the gaps right!!
And as you’re wondering what the images are, they’re (clockwise from top left):
A view towards Greenwich from the Thames Path
Storks nesting on telegraph poles in the Alentejo in Portugal
A flooded field in Elston, one of the villages close to our new home
A rock formation from our trip to Cornwall back in 2014.
And all are photos we’ve taken ourselves, and there’s nothing better to have on our walls - our memories captured by us - at some point I’ll do a post about each of the four photos we chose and why.
