Oh, well done! Looks great. I am always thrilled to have a convert to the vertical mirror. Just because we can't live at Versailles doesn't mean we can't learn from it! Make your husband a martini, put on some music and a little Chanel #5, and make him glad he went to the trouble... ;>)

Well, I'm a little prejudiced, as my Mother was an ardent clock collector and I inherited the bug, but clocks do make a welcome addition to any wall. Plus, they are practical. There is a tremendous selection available today, both online and offline, and you'll find many styles in whatever decor you choose. I'm particularly fond of some of the newer neon wall clocks and they certainly are eye-catchers, but I like the more traditional ones also. Clocks work particularly well as the centerpiece for a wall and you decorate around them. Whatever you choose, good luck with your decorating! Here is a link that might be useful: Unique Mantle Clocks

I like the triptych you bought very much, but look at the way all of those pictured in this post are hung....move yours to look like this: I'd paint the grill the same as the wall and I'd throttle the guy who installed it not centered on that wall (if it had to be in such a prominent place - which I doubt).

Essenzza ignore issues of taste and home clutter. There is not one taste or one type of good style, and home decoration should be the artful arrangement of the ideas and functions YOU want in your home. The issue I find, with family photos, is that small framed ones wash out when viewed from far away, and there is a limit to how many large family photos you want displayed prominently in your home and where. My husband, god bless him, insists on large family photos on the shelving unit across from our bed in our small bedroom. His family is constantly staring at me! He finds it comforting, I find it a little less than restful. But I can live with it. So that's an example. I'd feel the same way about a large family photo in a living room or family room over a fireplace. It's just too much like "The Smith's survey the room!" On the other hand, slightly smaller in a less prominent space surrounded by some more casual shots, it might be "Remember those happy times when we were all together!" But anyway, I think you are talking about a collection of smaller photos. The issue with those is you can't really see them unless you can get up close to them, which is why I would not put them on either side of the TV. Given that parameter, I would put up a display shelf under the "Eat" sign in the dining room. Then I would either put the stuff on the dining room credenza on the shelf and put a collection of family photos in a mixture of nice frames on the credenza, OR put the family photo mixture on the shelf. I have seen both done well in dining room inspiration photos which you could probably find by googling "dining room family photos arrangement on shelf" or some such thing or by searching Houzz photos. That way people can stand up close to the photos and look at them if they want, and yet the montage still looks good from a distance. Again, I would shoot for more casual photos, not a dominant set of people staring straight ahead. I have a two-photo frame with a picture of both my grandmothers staring straight ahead on a credenza in my dining room, along with my tea set in an arrangement. That level of personal display is not overwhelming and doesn't dominate the look of the room and they are accompanied by other decorative elements so their steely gaze is softened by that somewhat! :)