New Painting & Updated Built-in Shelves

 

A year ago I decided I wanted to build a canvas and paint something in our living room to replace our gallery wall. 

So I built the frame...

and stretched the canvas and painted it. But I didn't like it. Then I tucked it away for a year.....Until last week when I decided to try again. So I reprimed it and painted it. 

And I even got a little help from the little one:

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. We had decided to go with one large piece for the living room wall instead of a gallery wall, so it wouldn’t visually compete with the built-in shelving. And special shout-out to Uncle Gary who built me a frame for the Canvas! Because the canvas I built wasn’t perfectly square, he had to do a lot of extra work to make it work.

Here's our updated shelving that we repainted last summer:

Here's a before photo (yep, that's Ms. Rachel on TV...this is the only photo I could find)