Nailed It!

First, I'm sorry to all of you who do faithfully read this blog...I broke my promise to post at least once or twice a week during the school year!  Ooops!  It's really difficult to do when school work or stress related to school work takes over my life, much less leaves me any time to decorate or craft. HOWEVER, I've finally made the commitment to hang some things on my bare walls...

Although I've lived in the house for going on four months, I just couldn't figure out what to do with the bare walls...and something about nailing a bunch of holes and then not being happy made me reluctant.  But, my recent trip to Ikea for frames and shelves inspired me!  I bought two Ribba picture ledges (mine are 45 1/4" in length) and used this picture (also from Ikea) as inspiration:

 

I still need to figure out the exact placement on my frames and accessories and actually PUT pictures in the empty frames but I can work on that over time.  For now I've used a combination of framed pictures I already had as well as some new Ribba silver frames picked up at IKEA.

The picture above highlights both an adorable sleeping kitty as well as a fugly coffee table that desperately needs to be refinished into either white, dark gray, or black...not I big fan of its current color but it's what I already own so it will have to do for now!

*UPDATE: Here's what the living room looks like now...