I may have just created a problem for myself. For the past year I’ve been collecting things to put on all my painted and yet naked walls. I have a lot of wall space in odd places, so I’ve been brainstorming different options to fill things in.
First, there’s this wall under the stairs. This is the wall we stare at the most since it is behind the television and the computer, and yet with all the weird angles and niches and doorways, I didn’t really love just hanging up something traditional. I was watching Sesame Street with Atti the other day, and saw a home office wall decorated with framed images of font alphabets. It just made my brain explode it was so clean and graphic and fabulous. Then I started seeing “type walls,” all over online. With my well established love of the written word (hello, Atticus?) and the fact that this is essentially the wall of our home office, I thought it would be a perfect fit. So I made up a bunch of projects I’ll show you soon that fit with this theme, canvases and frames and loose wooden letters, and I thought I’d do a grouping starting on the wall over that niche, swooping over the top of the computer, and down behind the T.V.
Then, there’s the wall up the stairs. I have so much real estate there. Since it reaches 20′ tall in some places, I easily have 100 sq ft to fill. I liked the idea of hanging a collection to kind of break up that huge space and so I started collecting vintage glass plates.
This weekend I finished compiling everything I wanted for my type wall, and as soon as I hung the paper copies on the wall to fine tune the placement, I realized that I was going to end up with two big collections coming visually right up to each other.
Bear and I debated this last night and we decided that it was either going to look like crap or look like total genius I planned all along.
The two walls are actually part of the same wall, just divided by the stairs. They’re also painted two different colors. I’m leaning towards the thought that the two collections will echo each other and provide harmony with enough contrast in the colors, shapes, and items that it won’t just look like one big cluttered chopped up mess.
Here’s a few different views. Decide for yourselves:
So what do you guys think?