I love art walls!! I have one in my home that is in progress. All the paintings are thrifted, from garage sales or eBay. Every time I look at that wall, I smile. I even will sit outside the house and look inside at night cause it just looks cool (to me, anyway). I like that you are going to mix it up a bit. I do have some things that my kids have done too. I think I'm going to do those on my stairway wall. My house is old and has small rooms and lots of doors and windows, so I have to take the space where I can find it. I'm going to link you to my space as I find it impossible to upload photos here. I think I need a photobucket acct. to do that. Here is a link that might be useful: My Art Wall

Hoosiergirl I love your canvas paintings. Another suggestion would be those colorful seasonal flag type banners. I see them mounted on flag holders, but have also seen them hanging from a wall mounted rod - like a tapestry rod. There are some cute ones for the different seasons and different holidays. Some will call them "gawdy" - I think they are happy and colorful. I have a patio that is half under roof, half open with two brick walls plus brick patio pavers - it looks like a dark hole sometimes. I have been contemplating something light and colorful like these banners/flags to brighten the space up under the covered portion. Please tell me they are not as gawdy as plastic flamingos and those little twirley things in flower beds and gardens :)

Have you looked at their Facebook? There are a ton on there. I wish there had been that many when I first bought last year. Here is a link that might be useful: craft art wood countertop facebook

I hardly had any wall space left but I managed to buy a 1946 calender and find a space big enough to hang it. It has notations on it about setting eggs; hen, goose and duck. I added the pepper plaster plaques because I found them locally in my price range. Not my first choice but shipping from eBay gets out of hand. After MUCH discussion I decided against any type of backsplash and left it painted white so I use "old" prints and things as my backsplash. Two of the framed pictures on the SW counter were found in my machine shed. One is dated 1933 and I presume the other is likely in that same time frame. The calendar on the NW counter is from a grocery store no longer operating in my home town. Everything is either framed or laminated on its way to a frame. I like to change things every so often so this works for me. I have lots of pictures I've aquired over time. I could change everything every week and be good to go for a year. height=200> height=200> height=200> The advice >height=400> didn't work for me.