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Travel Gallery Wall In The Hallway

March 8, 2017 by Ashley Mayes 10 Comments

You’d have to be a long-time reader to know that we have a Travel Gallery Wall In The Hallway upstairs. So, major props if you knew that. And, if you didn’t know that… why haven’t you been a long-time reader?

Sometimes, I think I can be funny, but I know… I’m totally not. Anyways, I’ve been itching to make some changes to our travel gallery wall in the hallway for quite some time. It’s just a forgotten space that hasn’t seen much love in quite awhile.

Before we get to what it looks like, let me take you down memory lane.

Oh, and to appropriately go down memory lane, you have to start with a crooked photo and some blurriness. =)

When we first moved in, we were greeted with wallpaper in just about every room.

After taking down the wallpaper, the walls were in terrible shape. They had to be retextured.

After that, we painted the walls gray and started hanging a gallery wall.

I spray painted the attic fan and we installed new lights.

More and more frames were added to the hallway.

Travel Gallery Wall

I got annoyed with how close the frames were so I redid them.

Travel Gallery Wall In Hallway

Travel Gallery Wall In Hallway

Travel Gallery Wall In Hallway

We had our hardwood flooring installed and the gallery wall has sat untouched since then.

Travel Gallery Wall In hallway

Oh, and still no baseboards. It’s real-life guys!

Travel Gallery Wall In Hallway

So, I really looked at the wall this past week and came to a few conclusions.

The first one is that we have lots on the wall and every piece has special memories, yet each piece isn’t special to me in particular. Does that make sense?

Take this for example:

Travel Gallery Wall In Hallway

The heart rock was found in Scotland right below a castle while Luke and I were walking. How fun is that? I love having that memory. But, how it’s arranged in the picture frame and everything else around it… yep, none of that speaks to me.

Travel Gallery Wall In Hallway

This DIY Travel Coin display is actually something that I do still like but overall, the wall holds about two, maybe three things that I really like.

My second conclusion is why don’t I just take everything off and keep what I like and relocate those pieces throughout our home?!

Out of the thirty or so pieces on the wall in the hallway, I really only want to keep about four of them. So, why have everything else up on the wall?

Seriously, sometimes it takes me forever to come to these conclusions.

So, that’s where I’m leaving you today. Weird, right?! I didn’t actually do anything other than take pictures for you today. BUT, I have a plan. Sort of. I’ll make sure to share what I do when I do it.

p.s. Do you have spaces like this – spaces that you walk by every day and don’t particularly like yet you don’t do anything about? Tell me about it if you do!

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Comments

  1. Cassie Bustamante says

    March 8, 2017 at 6:24 am

    looks so good, ashley! i want to repaint our hallway but i can’t decide on a color! it’s just white but it needs some new life.

    Reply
    • Ashley Mayes says

      March 8, 2017 at 10:51 am

      I’m on the fence on our gray. Our hallway is DARK so I’m just not sure. I’m not rushing anything but I am on the lookout to make some changes.

      Reply
  2. Carrie says

    March 8, 2017 at 6:44 am

    I love your travel gallery wall but I totally get what you are saying. Sometimes having a ton of things on the wall just distracts from the ones we really love.

    Reply
    • Ashley Mayes says

      March 8, 2017 at 10:51 am

      Exactly! I’m not planning on getting rid of everything but most of it … unless I just love it. Just need a change in this space.

      Reply
  3. Leah says

    March 8, 2017 at 11:13 am

    Love your blog! Would love to know where you got the world map from? My fiancé wants one for the house so I want to surprise him bc we can’t come across one everywhere we look. I am also trying to decide what to do on a long hallway wall as well. I really want to do a gallery of photographs but it’s deciding what pictures and making sure they will be ones we will love to look at for a year or two at least.

    Reply
    • Ashley Mayes says

      March 8, 2017 at 11:30 am

      Thanks Leah! That would be an awesome gift! I got it from the Future Mapping company. https://futuremaps.com

      Hope he loves it!

      Reply
  4. Stormy Prince says

    March 8, 2017 at 11:53 am

    Thank you for sharing. I have been wanting to do gallery wall forever but not sure on how to start! Someday!!

    Reply
    • Ashley Mayes says

      March 8, 2017 at 2:29 pm

      You should just go for it!

      Reply
  5. Stephanie @ Casa Watkins Living says

    March 9, 2017 at 1:39 pm

    Looks great Ashley!! Love the art pieces and of course you know I can’t resist a gallery wall.

    Reply

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