Yesterday was the first ‘big’ move in day. Of course we’ve had all sorts of pieces leading up to this but today rugs came, the first wave of furniture and we did part 1 of some art installation. It’s really starting to look like a home!

Our friends at Mingo Gallery referred a brilliant art hanger to help us out (I’ve learned I can’t do everything and giving up art hanging was the best idea I’ve had in a long time!). Sarah worked on a couple locations today, one being our ‘family’ bathroom off the kitchen that we wanted to do something casual and fun, an jigsaw puzzle type layout and another giant grid up a tall stair hall to the basement.

The Family Bathroom we initially did some sketches to show the client the concept and did an order based on this idea, adding one of each size just in case. Lucklily and handily the frames came with mounting guides – BRILLIANT! Rather than hand cutting paper to size which I have done in the past for installs like this I could easily work with these loose pieces of paper and go over my layout up on the wall before any holes were made. Check out some progress photos below. I get some finished pictures tomorrow that also show off our glass tile and floating vanity.

The stair hall idea started as a way to cover a very tall space without determining early on art selection – photos were the easy thing to do for now while we focused on some other spaces as far as original art. So we set to finding some large frames with nice matting and hired Sarah to hang. Wish it was always this easy!

Frames are the ‘Gallery Frames’ from West Elm, Architecture by Water Jacob Architects and the builder is Apex Carpentry. Glass backslash in Family Bath above is from Ann Sacks and the wall hung vanity is a Duravit vanity from Designer Bath. If your interested in art hanging shoot Sarah an email: sarahdotjohnson@gmail.com.