Just realized my gallery wall was too matchy after a friend said it looked 'sterile'
She came over last week and said my frames all being the same black from Target made the hallway look like a showroom, not a home. So I swapped in my niece's crayon drawing in a thrift store frame from Goodwill for $4 and now it feels way more lived in. Anyone else gotten feedback like this and actually changed their setup?
Man, my wife did the same thing to me last year when she said our bookshelf looked like a furniture store display. I ended up mixing in some old paperbacks with cracked spines and a weird little ceramic frog my mom made in the 90s, and now guests actually stop and look at it. Sometimes the mess is the whole point.