When it comes to photos, I like to display our most favorite. Because, I mean, really, what is the point of taking them just to have them live on my computer? Back in our last few houses, I always displayed tons of photos in those magnetic sleeves on our refrigerator. But then when it came time to list our house for sale, I took them all down (because in staging a home, you’re not supposed to display too many personal items – it distracts the potential buyers, and then it also makes it harder for them to picture living there). After all the photos came down, the refrigerator looked so naked! It had to be rectified after the next move.
But I wanted to do something different.
And so when we moved back here (three years ago next week!), I set my sights on decorating the two long pantry doors in the small eat-in portion of the kitchen. It was a perfect blank canvas.
For about two and a half years, they looked like this:
Just stuck on with rolled up tape. Easy. And pretty effective. The kids love to look up at the pictures from both the past and the present, point out who’s who, and guess on some of the baby pictures. They get seen and enjoyed by us and visitors on a regular basis.
Love.
But then, a few months ago, they began to look a little messy to me.
And all the sudden, I couldn’t stand it anymore.
I had to fix it.
I wanted to display just as many photos, but make it neater.
Cleaner.
But what to do?
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