Making Over Our Living Room

We moved into our home in November and although it is looking incredibly full of 'stuff',  we have not got round to adding some of the personal touches we intended, and with two small children around getting the motivation to do these things doesn't always come easily.  Money supermarket have set a bloggers challenge to makeover a room or part of a room with £50 and it seemed like the perfect excuse to make those changes.

Here is the space I wanted to work with:

I love photography and whilst it may not be a skill of mine, we do have a lot of beautiful photos that I want to show off. I decided that the money would be used to create a photo wall behind our living room sofa.  I love the elegant white or wooden frames that many houses have, but our lives are all about colour so I chose some beautifully bright frames from ikea to add some personality to the room.  They were very reasonably priced and the smaller sized came in packs of two for £2.50.  I have also bought some cheap wooden frames from the poundshop which I want to paint with some leftovers we have around.

I found a brightly coloured photo-clock on Ebay which forms the centre of the wall (and is somehow the only clock we have in the entire house!) My final piece was a gorgeous glass bottle to go in the window which I picked up for 25p from a local bootfair and filled with some water beads that we have been using for messy play with Dylan.   

And voila! Our living room looks brighter and our gorgeous photos are finally on display!