Doggone Gallery Wall

Last week I had a hot date 

over at my BFF's house 

to help her with her Gallery Wall 

in her basement bathroom.  

I don't know if you remember 

when I showed you her basement transformation 

a few years ago.  

We remodeled the whole area, 

taking it from drab 70's nightmare 

to a warm and inviting pub style entertaining space. 

This is the guest bathroom that we remodeled.  

You can see the before and after HERE.

This is how it looks now.  

Hmmmmmm, not much 

has changed since the remodel! 

Hey, we have been busy! 

She has been collecting Dog paintings, 

prints and memorabilia to use in the room 

and finally, 

after visiting millions of Estate Sales,

has enough to start the Gallery Wall. 

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We were inspired by the socialite 

Brooke Astor's stairway 

with her magnificent dog paintings. 

And I did a little research out there 

on the Internet 

and found these pictures on Pinterest.

Another close up of the Stairway...

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Mario Buatta's Living Room...

 And a beautiful Living Room that Betsy Speert 

showed us on her blog- Link Here.

So, first things first.... 

We had dinner and wine.... 

WELL, I had to get paid somehow!!!  

We measured the wall 

and I taped out the measurements on the carpet.  

Hey, plaid carpet helps for this!  

We had our critics there 

to give us unsolicited advice!  

We cut templates for all of the pictures 

out of brown wrapping paper.  

 Once we had an arrangement 

that we liked 

we taped the paper templates to the wall.  

OK, we had some more wine.... 

THEN we taped the templates to the wall.  

Thinking back now 

I can see why it took us so long 

to complete this project!

WOW!  We really did have a LOT of wine!!!

OK, that's better!  

We tweaked the arrangement 

a little until we were satisfied 

and then we hung the pictures 

right on top of the paper.  

As you can see things moved down a bit 

after hanging the templates.  

Some things just have to be eyeballed!  

We left room to add some corbels 

on either side of the adorable cocker spaniel  

that looks just like my little baby.

And Project "Doggone Gallery Wall" complete!  

Let's celebrate with a glass of wine!  

Looks like there is lots of room 

to add more prints and paintings to her collection.  

Hope she invites me over for more wine to help!

I really have to get over there 

and take some more pictures of her basement.  

It is really looking fantastic!  

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves

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