RIBBA GALLERY WALL LAYOUT HOW TO

I grabbed a stack of pieces from the Dollarama and brought them home. Yep, the same stuff you used for your projects in elementary school. So I needed some way of getting all matching mats in a bunch of sizes. In addition to that issue, I was also working with some art sizes that didn’t actually fit the mats – they were square, or just off the usual size – AND mixing in some vintage frames which didn’t have any mats at all. Especially when the mat doesn’t match the bright white of the frame. If you’ve ever used the IKEA Ribba frames, you’ll know that the mats are more of a cream than a pure white. I chose several pieces in a few different sizes -Īnd now for the BEST trick for budget-friendly, bright white DIY photo mats? Have you guys browsed Minted before? Warning – you will get lost in there for WAY too long. I have been swooning over so many of Minted‘s pieces lately and knew I wanted to incorporate some of them. You can go in tons of different directions for a gallery wall.įor this particular one, I wanted to do a mixture of art pieces and photographs. For example – when doing a mixture of art prints and photos, you want to make sure that they are spread out appropriately and not all the photos on one side, or all the black and white things clumped together.ģ // Hang up each sheet with painter’s tape on the wall, continually stepping back and re-assessing and adjusting as you go, until you eventually get the layout you want.Ĥ // Once you have the layout, simply take down each sheet one at a time as you hang the frames up on the wall.

My tried and true method for hanging a gallery wall?ġ // Cut out some sheets of wrapping paper to the size of each of your frames, or use the sheets from within the frames if you have them.Ģ // If you already have the artwork you’re going to use, write down a quick description on each cut-out sheet of paper so that you make sure you don’t have too much of one thing too close together. I had hummed and hawed about hanging either just a few really large statement art pieces here or doing a gallery wall. I ended up going with gallery wall, as we had a lot of smaller frames already on hand. We had those old white dressers as a stand-in, but I found a thrifted dresser that was a better fit and for the space. Here’s a reminder of how the room looked after we had painted it a soft green gray and added in bedding…Īnd the opposite wall, which had a whole lot of nothing going on. Keep reading, you don’t wanna miss this one.

RIBBA GALLERY WALL LAYOUT HOW TO

And you guys? Not only do I have some tips for how to hang a gallery wall, but I also have THE BEST tip for getting super bright white DIY photo mats for IKEA (and non-IKEA) picture frames… with no fancy mat cutting or pricey materials! The latest project to get ticked off the list in our pad has been to finally get some art up on the walls in our master bedroom.

Ribba gallery wall layout