Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Wireless.


We’ve been at it again; getting rid of those wretched wires. Our first cover-up was super simple (we moved the doorbell box). Then we tackled two slightly more involved options- one of which we love and one of which we’re still deciding on. The last one was a stroke of pure genius on my part (if I do say so myself) and was the least work of all.

These little guys:


were the next ones dealt with. We inherited a set of three prints that look like they’re from Kirkland’s or somewhere similar. They’re really nice; maybe not exactly our style but definitely classy enough to grace our walls for now. And in all honesty, finding solutions that fit us “for now” is pretty much what we’re going for. We realize that we’ll definitely continue moving things around and switching things up until they’re more “us,” but for now, we’re happy just having things out of boxes and looking a little more home-y.

Back to the wires: we pulled out our maps-and-trees art work and strategically hung them, resulting in:


We let out a huge (and perhaps dramatic) sigh of relief. It made our hearts happy, and we still occasionally find ourselves (ok, mostly me) staring at the lack of wires. Ahh…

Next up were these guys:


Maybe the ugliest of the bunch. We played around with a lot of options. We started with these classy paper place holders:


We moved them around a few times to find an arrangement that we might like (you’ll notice that we were also dealing with a thermostat box). We tried this at first:


We left it for a day and decided we didn’t like it. We thought the frames around the Union prints were a little too chunky. We traded them out for these:


That’s what we have going on right now. Jury’s still out.

Last but most certainly best was this wire by the edge of our circular mirror (we tucked it into its self a bit):


It started out a little less obtrusively; it was pretty small. I stared at it for a good long while and came up with this solution:


Victory is so sweet.

All of the wires are officially covered, and three out of four coverings are staying for a while. Whew!

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