Foyer Plans Thwarted By A Hospital Stay (Plus A Sneak Peek Of My Plan For The Long Bedroom Wall)

None of the obvious choices were really doing anything for me. I could leave it blank, but again, that’s a huge amount of wall space. I could put three or four large pictures, like the size of the chapel picture.

I didn’t love that idea because having even more pictures that size takes away from the specialness of the chapel picture.

And, of course, I could use the other 12 pictures that I cut out of the Bible study book and make a gallery wall of those on the long wall.

But that doesn’t really make sense to me since I’ve already pulled the four out that had the most orange in them and used them on a separate wall.

The more I thought about that wall, the more I really wanted something unexpected, freeform, and unframed. And my mind immediately went to the birds that I have on the wall in the living room.

I love those birds, but I’ve always wished I could find a more prominent place for them. They seem to get lost in the corner of the living room. Well, moving them from that corner of the living room where the walls are painted so light they barely contrast with the birds to a dark teal wall in our bedroom would certainly give them more prominence! Of course, for an 11-foot wall, I’d need many more than just 12 birds.

So I ordered more. A lot more. Perhaps I went overboard, but I now have a total of 48 birds. 😀 Since I didn’t want to figure out the arrangement with the actual ceramic birds, which would have required a lot of trial and error with actual nails through the grasscloth, I used the ceramic birds as patterns to cut out paper birds that I could tape onto the wall to figure out the arrangement. I don’t have the final arrangement yet, but here’s a peak at where this is heading…

That’s only 36 birds, and I have a total of 48. I have a total of 16 large birds — 8 that face left and 8 that face right. And I have a total of 32 small birds — 16 that face left and 16 that face right.

I’m going to keep playing around with the arrangement until I get it just right. As much as I want the arrangement to be freeform, I also want to test out an arrangement that is a perfect oval. My need for symmetry requires that I at least test out that idea before I pick the final arrangement.

Anyway, I can’t really do much more until Matt gets out of the hospital. I would love for that to happen this afternoon. It’s so difficult to actually get better in a hospital with them waking you up all throughout the night. The body needs sleep to heal, but good sleep is one thing that’s virtually impossible to get at a hospital. But it’s looking like it’ll be tomorrow at the earliest. Oh well. Maybe instead of using paper birds and tape, I can use my photo editing software to come up with the perfect bird arrangement for my wall while we’re stuck at the hospital. At least that’ll give me something creative to do to pass the time.