Tweaking Kris's Gallery Wall

Before I continue with my friend Connie's Florida home.....

I need to jump back over to my buddy Kris's living room.

This is the way my mind works.....

over here 

and over there

and back around againnnnn.......

OY OY OY...

You may remember Kris's home from last month.....

Here's a reminder shot.....

Wellllll.....

We hadn't finished the wall over the sofa.

It had a couple of square inches of bare sheet-rock showing!!!!!

We hate a void!!!!

IT MUST BE FILLED!!!!!

This was the wall over the sofa before Thursday.....

(I thought it was done, but Kris claims that I told her to buy more dog paintings......)

These were the paintings waiting to still be hung.....

Kris emailed me at the beginning of last week, 

and asked if I could help her hang these on Thursday.

Since she is my ride to and from the airport.....

I figured I better put a good face on it, 

and sweetly tell her.....

"Of course.....I would LOVE

 to hang some more @#$ on your walls!!!"

Here we are starting our project.....

(Welllll.....actually, that's Kris.....)

We had to do a lot of mountain climbing sofa hopping....

do get this accomplished.

Lots of pictures to hang....

OY!

So, we starting rebuilding the arrangement....

But first we had to pull the sofa away from the wall, so we could get a step stool in there, since our geriatric frames couldn't balance on the back of the sofa.

When we pulled the sofa away from the wall.....

Kris found the leaves to her dining table!!!!!

(They had been put in a safe place, that no one remembered.....)

Moral of this story....

go around your house and look behind and under stuff....

you could find gold!!!!!

We (I) wanted to leave the picture of the three terriers in the center over the couch.

but the rest of the paintings had to be reworked.

We were able to hide a lot of the nail holes, but not all of them.....

But there's so much @#@$ stuff on the wall that you really don't notice them!!!!!

 I first hung the Boston Terrier.

Then Kris rehung the trio back on its existing hook.

Then I didn't bother to take any more pictures 

BECAUSE

this was absolutely 

exhausting!!!!!

We had to rehang the brackets that hold the pair of Staffordshire dogs.

Raising the pair of water colors over them.

Then I added a painting behind the lamp on the right, 

one that Kris didn't like so much, so it doesn't matter that it's hidden,

but it got rid of some of the

dreaded bare wall!!!!

We added some plates, moved some stuff, added some dogs, removed some dogs,

took some rests.....

took some more rests.....

and congratulated ourselves on a job well done!!!!

Gallery walls are hard to do.

Gallery walls are hard to do.

Gallery walls are hard to do!!!!!!!

Here are some before and afters.....

I realize this isn't everyone's cup of tea....

But this is Kris's house,

and she

LOVES it!!!!!

So, that makes me happy.

See you on Tuesday...

Latah, Gatah