A Gallery Wall for Renters

Check out any Pinterest home board and chances are, a gallery wall photo (or 5) will be pinned to it. I love a good gallery wall. I think it's a great way to tell your story and showcase your taste through personal photos, prints and art. But, if you don't own your home (like me), these can be tough to execute as it requires drilling or nailing multiple holes in your wall.

I bring you: the gallery wall for renters. While it still requires some drilling - putting the shelf into the wall - it has a lot less holes than if you were to hang each photo individually. Plus, I love that I can rearrange the order of these photos or the images within them to give my room a whole new look and feel whenever I want.

All you need is a collection of frames, a picture ledge (I used the IKEA Ribba, which I've talked about before here), and a series of prints and pictures. Many of the images on my gallery wall feature some of my travel photos that I've had printed off using an online printing service or at the local convenience store. 

Picture frames can get expensive fast, so whenever I see a frame that I like, I purchase it to avoid having to buy 10-20 frames at once to create a gallery wall. I've gathered the frames pictured below over the past couple of years from places like IKEA, Home Goods, Marshalls or TJ Maxx. I have a habit of picking up cheap frames and good candles wherever I go because I know in my house they will always get put to use!

Shelves, Lady Prints, Gold Frames: Ikea// Comparison is the thief of Joy: Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co.// Photos from Barcelona, Berlin, DC

Where: Berlin

Where: Berlin
Eat: at one of the city's amazing cafes. My personal favorite was the breakfast tower at Cafe Anna Blume for breakfast, Frau Mittenmang for dinner.
Sleep: in an AirBnB Prenzlauer Berg. It provides easy access to cool cafes, trendy night clubs and downtown shopping.
Drink: All the German beer you can. Feeling divey? Check out Hackbarth's. Feeling like a Hipster? Go to Mein Haus Am Se.
Do: take the city's public transportation. German efficiency at it's finest. Also consider downloading Rick Steves' Berlin city walk podcast, you won't regret it.
When: Over New Year's Eve. I guarantee you will never experience a more wild night. Expect to be celebrating well into the next morning.
Wear: Your most edgy, eclectic street style. Nothing is off limits in this town.

W E L C O M E B A C K

Welcome back W&W! It's been a while since I have posted and for that I apologize. Between work and play, things got a little busy. So where exactly have I been? The long and short of it: 

up the street and around the world.

In the past few months I moved apartments, traveled to some new cities and countries, and took some time to really think about the future of W&W.

With that in mind, here's what you can expect to see on W&W:

More structured posts, with more frequent updates 

Some weekly inspiration

Some new W&W branded social media channels

A general, revive, refresh (and some reinvention) of the blog

In the words of one of my favorite divas:

I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being...When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.

- Madonna

So thanks for sticking around and look for some new content and a fresh set of posts starting next week! In the meantime, here are some fun snaps from the past couple months:

Went to NOLA for my first time and wandered the French Quarter. One word: dangerous.

You can usually find me here weeknights, so it seemed like an appropriate photo to add to this collection. 

Moved into this place with three days of planning.

Went all DC and went to the White House for the holiday. Mobama knows how to decorate.

Then I hopped on a flight to Prague, which doesn't look real.

But it looks so good, it gets two photos. One (of many) cafes I stumbled upon in Prague.

Then went to Berlin for NYE. This 5 a.m. photo doesn't have a filter, it's just the weird club lighting.

Then I had an early morning in Istanbul. Luckily not the next morning from picture above. #NoMakeupSelfie

I got to watch the sun rise over the city.

And see a warm sunset out in Cali.