With a rather "open-floor-plan" type of home, we don't have a lot of room for wall art.

This is beginning to be a problem, as when we first got married, I made a photo collage for each year.  I'm three years behind right now, and this is only partially because some of the pictures are still in digital form on my computer.  painter

The real reason is the lack of wall space.  We've got 15 of these collages up throughout the house, and there is only so much more room to hang any more.

What are we going to do--move so we can accommodate our photo collection?

We do have a little bit of non-family-photo art on the walls.  My husband's great-aunt painted a beautiful mountain-and-water scene for us as a wedding gift.  That will always have a place of honor in our home.  And I have a couple of enlarged photographs hanging up, just because we love those pictures.

My older son has decided to turn one of his concert T-shirts into wall art.  Since he got to meet the band members and had them sign the shirt, he doesn't want to wear it and lose the signatures in the wash.  Instead, he hung it on the wall.  I'm not thrilled about the thumbtacks he used, but it does look good in there and he likes it.

And the final frontier in our art-challenged home is the refrigerator.  With a first-grader in the house, we naturally have the spelling tests, watercolors, a coffee-filter butterfly and even a Thanksgiving turkey still there (hmm, it might be time to update that one!)  Every time I clean off the front of the fridge and put these masterpieces in his desk drawer, he brings home new ones from school and hangs them right up.

Someday I'll miss those.  Until then, I'll enjoy those outdating Thanksgiving turkeys!

COUPON TIME

If there's still room for art in your home, these coupons can help you get a nice discount!

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