New Wall Art

We are moving in less than a week!  We will be moving into another apartment in the same complex, but moving, nonetheless.  With moving comes a new chance to decorate.  Jordan wanted something new to put behind the couch.  He looked at a few different ideas on Pinterest, but decided to come up with his own idea.  Here are some pictures.

This is a digital photo of what we thought we might do.  Jordan spent several hours going through pictures and cropping them to the correct size.  It was very difficult to find only 6 pictures to use!

Next, we bought the wood.  We bought 10' x 10" planks and had them cut to the correct size at a Home Depot.  Each plank was $8.50 and we got three pieces from each plank. ($17.00 total)

After that we had the pictures printed at a Ritz Camera.  The photos were put together with two on each page and printed as a 20" by 30" at $29.99 a sheet and cut apart ($89.97 total). You can get them printed through Snapfish for $19.99. 

The next step was to paint the boards black.

 Photos were put on the boards using some super glue and a layer of mod podge.

A layer of Mod Podge was painted over each photo and the edges of the boards.

A simple hanger was nailed to the back of each board.

This is what they looked like all finished.

Size comparison.

Side/top view.

Top view.

Finished!  We don't plan on staggering it at our new place, but the nails were already in the wall here.