I Promised You a "How to Make A Picture Collage"

First the completed paint job of what was formerly a yellow floral wall papered room. This is fixin to be the teen scene now. Elvis is making himself at home. My resident teenager has gone from bummed out to very excited about the switcheroo. She has decided that this room is very cool. You have to admit the kid has an eye for picking paint. She really is quite good at color. Now if she would just learn to dust on a regular basis.

This is the idea. I saw this advertised in a catalog and these cost about a hundred dollars each. I really liked the idea.

I already have a ton of framed photos. The hallway was jam packed full of them all.
I don't need to buy more frames.

Hummmm what to do?

Set up a table for working and start sorting through the loot. When you get to be my age you have more photos than ---a goose has poop a photo shop.

Practice laying out the pictures in some kind of a pattern that looks good.
I rearranged several times to refine the look.

Then I went to Lowes. My first thought was bathroom hardware because towel rods are strong but they do not come in different sizes. Then I thought of crown molding; you know to hang the pictures on!  I also looked in the storage section at different kinds of metal used for hanging tools. Too minimalist for me, but definitely cheap.
I browsed and thought and scratched my head feeling very much like a certain Pooh Bear- think think think. Then the most obvious idea presented itself;  drape rods! I purchased three- ka ching ka ching ka ching.

 

If you look closely you can see how we are connecting the pictures. You will notice a certain adorable small granddaughter who is the star of our hall way show.

The Hunny had to help of course.I can't seem to do anything all by myself. I bought 10 ft of small chain, S hooks, and brass eyes. The drape rods were $11 each, you can spend a lot more if you like, and probably less.

The S hooks were a couple of dollars and the chain was 54cents a foot, 10 feet was $5.  So far so good!

My job was to put the eyes in the tops and bottoms of each picture. I got to use the power tools!!! Whooo hoooo power tools are fun!

See this is what you call a Granny in action!

While I did that, Hunny measured things in the hallway.I do not do ladders. Sitting on the floor was really pushing it, but you know how it is when you want to get something done. Sit and bear it.

Tucker had to help out, he was the supervisor of course.  

We made two in one day and they are so pretty!

Wall--la! 

It wasn't hard at all once we made a plan and got a groove on. Now the next thing is what to do with all the rest of those pictures!! I am working an 2 more collages but I am taking a very hard look at this extra large collection with an eye on storage for some. I do NOT want to clutter this up. I really like it like this but there are some more photos in the "must hang up" category.

What do you think do you want to try it?