Building a Gallery Wall Around Your TV

As I've mentioned before, walls around and behind flat screen televisions often stump me.  After many months of staring at too much blank space behind our television, I finally got my hammer and nails and went to work.  This is the result:

I first went to Michael's and bought a variety of inexpensive frames to add to the ones I already had around the house.  I felt like the arrangement around the television shouldn't be distracting (heavens forbid my eyes wander off of the Real Housewives. . . ), so I used all black and white photography and art.  I printed alot of it from this site (a great way to fill frames without spending a penny!). 

I also had a pair of sea fans that I bought from Ebay over a year ago, so I sprayed them glossy black and put them in shadow boxes:

I like the way the wall turned out, but it certainly took a while (and a lot of TV watching) to figure it all out.  Here's how the wall looked right after we moved in a couple of years ago:

Ugh! Can you say depressing?!

And, here's how the wall looked until about a month ago (and before it was painted a dark tan):

And, after a Saturday spent moving frames around and nailing lots of holes in our wall:

And, just a reminder, I'm drawing the winner of a pretty vintage necklace from Everton Terrace tomorrow! You can enter for a chance to win here.