DIY Photo String Wall Decoration

DIY Photo String Wall Decoration

Want to personalize the bare gray walls of your college dorm room? Try this easy, affordable, shabby chic DIY that covers as much space as you desire!

Materials:

• Command Clear Hooks ($8.99)
• Twine of any kind ($5.85)
• Miniature Clothes Pins ($3.35)
• Personalized Photo Prints - High Quality 4x6 Prints here ($0.09/photo)

Grand total (30 photos)- $20.89, with enough Command Clear Hooks and Twine left over to recreate in an additional room (or 2)!

 

For my Photo String Wall I used six Command Clear Hooks to make three strings of ten photos. I made sure each string of twine was the same length, and tied each end of the twine to the hook of a Command Clear Hook. I did all of my measuring and placement without a ruler or marker, I just used my judgement and a friend's to make sure it was not crooked. The wall next to my bed seemed very bare, so that is where I hung my Photo String wall. I had this up in my dorm room from September to the end of April and it did not once fall! 

Try to use odd numbers of strings, and switch up the orientation of the photos (Landscape-Portrait-Landscape, etc.) to add some visual interest. This is really easy to change up throughout the year as you make new memories! I hope you have fun with this DIY and make it your own by either changing up the color twine, or even painting your clothespins fun colors!

Love,

    Lauren 

Blog Name...

Welcome Blog Lovers!

I have been very interested in starting a blog for the past few years. However, I have always struggled on what I should call it, or what it should be about. In the past few months it finally struck me- to write a blog, at least initially, about dorm room organization and decoration.

Last fall I began my first year at a university, which meant me and my mom spent a lot of time decorating and designing my first ever (shared) space of my own outside of my family's home. I wanted to bring the knowledge I accumulated through countless hours on pinterest and through the actual experience of moving into and setting up a real life dorm room all into one, consolidated place.

I struggled on the name aspect of the blog, and I still do. Thank goodness the name of the blog can be changed or else I would probably never get started. I want to start out this blog with the dorm posts, but eventually move on to posts about college advice (studying, relationships, campus involvement, etc.), fashion, makeup, lifestyle, DIY's- anything! This very diverse set of topics has made it very difficult for me to develop a name that embodies what I want this blog to be.

I know there may be nobody out there who sees this, but if anyone does and has any ideas of a name I could use for this blog other than my own (as it currently is!), I would be forever grateful for advice!

~Lauren Elisabeth