Styling gallery walls filled with memories in our Living Room (+TIPS)
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- Free Style
- Condo
- ~700 sqft
- 2 br
- Couple Living with Kids
Welcome to our small yet mighty living room where we rest, host, play and work all in the same space ✨ The living room is the heart of our home. We had a vision before we moved in to grow our family memories and items that hold meaning to us as a feature along the walls of this rectangle space. Over the years, the initially bared wall has grew so much, adding to the warmth and coziness of our living room. 👀 A view of our living room from the dining area.. (Read more about our dining nook in our previous post) Our living room has gone through multiple changes over the years too, as with our entire home. Loose furniture allows for this flexibility that we enjoy! 😌 We used to have a TV console but we sold it on Carousell when we needed more space for Little ☁️’s play area. Hence, we repurposed a simple 4-tier shelf (that was previously used in 👵🏻 G’s work area) to hide the TV electrical point, wifi router, charging cables, etc. It’s always a happy surprise when we shift furniture around the house and it fits perfectly with its new place and purpose! 🥲 To hide the messy wires, we cut a spare floral fabric to drape over the shelf. ✨ Shelf styling tips: - Drape a patterned fabric over the shelf to soften the surface - Layer heights of different items - Add a small vase of flowers or foliage and it will never go wrong (change it as and when you feel like it to freshen the look) 
We upgraded our sofa to a sofa bed just a year ago so that this space can also be transformed into a sleeping area. This custom sofa bed that fits in our small space can open up to a queen-size bed. It is also scratch-free and stain-proof. We had a lot of naps here with ☁️ when she was a newborn. Many of our guests asked us if we planned the items to be pasted on our walls since it looked congruent as a whole. Truth is, we added piece by piece over the years and the placement of each one, it’s all by intuition.. 🫢 The purpose of our feature walls were never about having everything in perfect place or aesthetic, so it didn’t fret us much when it started out awkward with 2-3 items in the middle of a bare wall. We knew it will build up to something more over the years.. so we simply trust the process 🍃 ✨ If there’s a styling tip that we can share for gallery walls: don’t be afraid to mix up textures, shapes, sizes! This is a poem by Lang Leav that we used at our wedding written in beautiful calligraphy 🤍 
Another reason of having gallery walls is because our small home don’t allow for decor that takes up floor space. All kinds of decor can be added to a gallery wall, not just photo/art print frames! P.S. All our frames are held up by 3M photo strips - fingers crossed, they have been up for years and haven’t dropped. We trust 3M this much 😉 
It is also a meaningful tradition that we want for our family to take photos during yearly celebrations in front of our growing gallery walls 💌 This was Little ☁️’s 100 days celebration this year in which we positioned the decor setup in front of our gallery walls. 
Little ☁️’s play and reading area fills the middle part of our living room. We envision more changes here as she grows. Follow along our IG (@hepromisedheraforest) as we share the changes through the years! We thrifted a vintage cabinet that fits perfectly against this narrow wall - thrifting joys ✨ - and it houses Little ☁️’s books. 📷 A garden art print placed beside the door that leads to our balcony garden. In a small home and shared space, it’s important for items to be movable or can be stowed away. Hence, we bought a playmat that can be opened in half or full, and can be folded and kept in a corner. This is one of our best baby buy! ✨ The other side of our living room has a built-in wardrobe as this is initially the ‘Master Bedroom’ area in the original layout of our Dual-key Apartment. This wardrobe is used mainly for storage of 👵🏻 G’s floral business supplies, and other items that usually goes into a ‘Study room’. This area is 👵🏻 G’s little floral studio where she works at. We love the flexibility and ease of styling IKEA’s Billy Bookcases! 🥹 The shelves’ level can be easily shifted so 👵🏻 G styled a level for a thrifted vintage mirror that she uses to see the mirror image of the flowers she arranged. ✨ Shelf styling tip: Add a tension rod and short curtain to hide any clutter (👵🏻 G hid the vases she use for her floral arrangements here). 📷 A little work space corner Repurposed the hanging paper lanterns from 👵🏻 G’s sister’s wedding decor to style something cute and dangling from the ceiling! Thoughtfully putting together the bits and pieces of inspiring decor in a work space really lifts one’s mood and refreshes motivation if you work from home! 🌼 📷 A little cottage dream come true with laced curtains and art prints on a window view 📷 A night view of our living room 
Every living room needs a warm lamp! 🌙 When we want a change in atmosphere to wind down, gather around to chat, or enjoy a movie at the end of the day, we always on this lamp and it softens the environment and mood instantly. So here’s the heart of our home designed simply with loose furniture and meaningful styling 🤍 We hope you enjoyed our living room tour and the styling tips we shared are useful! 🥰
- 12 August 2024
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