Isn't that the most confusing title here to date??

Anyway...

This is the day my most awaited wall came to life! This is months in the making, considering all the time I nagged brother#2 to choose photos from his hundreds of random shots taken in the span of two years. (Though the actual photo selection just happened a few days ago, the whole month is just the nagging!)

You'll see how this wall gallery progressed on the part 1 post. Here it is today:

I love how personal the "artworks" are. We don't have expensive original art, so I just used what we have -my brother's photos. He got into photography few years ago, more than enough time to collect some amazing shots!

This shot was taken from our last visit in LA. My brothers were bored and took a walk at Rodeo Drive. They've taken this with a tripod, with a remote, on the middle of the street, with flashing green traffic lights! Good thing it's midnight!

Both of these photos were from our afternoon at Marina Del Rey, just a few days before we bid LA goodbye.

I grabbed the camera from bro#2 when I saw our reflection on his sunglasses! That's my mom, me, and brother #3 and #1 on the shades.

That's brother#4 with a hoodie posing like a pro. I also framed some vintage pictures of our family. That's me on that heart shaped print! (I was born in the 80's, does that count as vintage?)

Meet Mr. Cow, taken from our last visit to my mom's province. We had no idea who owns him, we just saw his modeling potential and took this shot! Now he holds that special place on our only blue frame.

Here's a before-during-after photos...

BEFORE: Blank white wall

DURING: Prior to frame-painting and picture-printing

AFTER!

The cost:
Frames - FREE! (old frames from all over the house)
White mat - P80 (around $2)
Printing - P480 (around $11)
Spray paint - P100 (around $2.30)

TOTAL: P660 ($15.30)


What do you think of our wall? Love it or love it? That's your only option! :)

P.S. For readers from Manila, for your printing needs, check out iBones. P80 for 11"x17"! Cheap quality prints. 

P.P.S. See that picture on the upper-right? The lady with her hand on her chin, that's my mom. That was taken million years ago and she's probably gonna hate me for putting that up! You know how we all hate old photos with weird hair. She now lives in LA and has no idea what's going on here. Ma, don't hate me, I love you! :D

We all know that adding mirrors gives the illusion of more space, and it bounces light too. But how big can you go?

 Larry Laslo

 Elle Decor

Can you handle a floor to ceiling, wall to wall mirror? 

 Lindsey Harper

 ernest de la torre

It doubles the space.. 

Geoffrey Bradfield

Janet Lohman

 Sara Gilbane

But it also doubles the clutter. (Especially for the not so orderly like me!)

 abode love

apartment therapy

These rooms are all gorgeous, but in real (with work, family, kids, husband/boyfriend, and pets!) life, do you prefer to reflect much light and space? or do you cringe at the thought of seeing yourself all the time and dread maintaining a spotless humongous mirror?

Mirrored wall.. Love it or Hate it?

I'm pretty sure I've established the fact that our house has a lot of junk / scrap / trash / or any other term for old unused stuff lying around collecting dust. (Proof here, here, here, here, and here)

Here's another pile to prove my point:

Those are the frames I collected searching every inch of our place to fill this blank wall:

I guess the above picture also shows the junk we have around. This side of the room holds all unwanted stuff since we cleared the other side (striped wall / cheery yellow entry). At least I can look away from this and see some order!

Here's the final arrangement of the frames prior to spay painting:

I was looking around the room looking for a place for the clock. Then a thought hit me, why not include it in the frame gallery? And there we have a blank frame perfect fit for the clock. It's sooo meant to be. (Yes, I can be over dramatic at times)

As you can see in the moodboard, the frames are mostly black with a few touches of bright color. Here's the gallery post-painting:

We haven't printed out the pictures and artworks yet, so the final reveal (part 2) will be posted when we finish the project. And I'm fabric shopping soon for the curtains and slipcovers, I can't wait!

Oh if you're wondering about the camera crew, I'll tell you soon. ;)