Put together a gallery wall of your favorite art, photos, and home decor along your staircase with these easy tips and ideas.
Disclosure: This post was sponsored by HP
Last week I shared with you a few gallery walls I put together in our home. When HP contacted me about creating another one I wanted to do one on a larger scale. My office and garage had boxes of blank canvasses, empty frames, and assorted pieces I have wanted to hang on the walls forever.
This wall took quite a bit of planning. If you saw one of my DIY posts from back in 2011, you can see what the wall looked like before. I had initially planned on doing a lot of black frames with primarily black and white images. I never finished it though because it just wasn’t working for me.
HP photo wall decor
The first step was to get my favorite photographs off the computer and order HP Photo Wall Décor. This was the easiest step … aside from choosing the photographs of course. There are a lot of options and sizes available and all are ordered through Walmart Photo. Thankfully the 8 I ordered were available for same-day pickup – 5×7, 8×10, and 8×20. If you don’t know me, I’m incredibly impatient especially once I get into a project, I want to finish it right away.
The 8×20 photo décor (the photo of me below), is my favorite size. I want to eventually decorate another wall above a table with a series of these. What I loved most about this is it automatically crops your photo to the correct size, but you can move it around to get the photo just right before saving.
I especially love the one of Marisol attempting to blow out the white agapanthus that she thought were giant dandelions.
Arranging photos for a gallery wall
The next step was to measure the wall. From there I lay all of the frames and other items on my bedroom floor – a space that kids wouldn’t be walking over constantly. The next couple of days was spent adding and taking away items, painting frames, and creating new art.
I wanted the color scheme to be gold, white, bronze, wood, blue, and green, which meant painting a few items.
A lot of the pieces I chose have significant meaning for me. My dad handmade the clock, the sketch of me was done at a friend’s 40th birthday and the butterfly image next to it being handmade by that same friend. The ‘Hello Sun Shine’ wood and canvas art was handmade by me during a workshop with Poppy Seed Projects last year at the SNAP Conference.
The final touch was adding a map (that has significant meaning to me) inside the embroidery hoop I’d picked up at a thrift store.
After measuring the width and height of the pieces on the floor and making sure it fit perfectly on the wall, I could hang everything. I began in the center, working my way out and it came together perfectly.
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174 comments
LOVE it, been wanting to do something like this at my house.
Tonya I love this! I have a wall begging for the same treatment but I did t know where to start! You’ve inspired me yet again 🙂
My entry wall need a wake up.
Love how your wall turned out.
Love the new look! And that drawing!!! 🙂
Our stairs are pretty similar! Except I have a rail and a hallways along the top. I want to do the same thing too- our house is so full of doors and a chair rail, there’s no good spaces for a gallery wall except the stairs.
This is so awesome. I love it. We’ve talked about doing something similar in our house, but haven’t actually gotten around to it yet. We have a huge wall when you first come up the stairs to our living room (we have a split level house so you have to go UP to get to the main area). I’d love to do a wall like this. Need to get on that.
I’d love to decorate our living room wall. I really love this idea. Thanks so much.
I would love to wake up the wall in my living room above the fireplace. Right now it just has an impersonal large mirror but I’d love to replace that with different size black/white pictures of my family.
I would wake up the wall in my living room. I started a wall with the idea of doing this, but it only has a couple of thing son it and it looks more like a mess than something awesome like this!!! I would totally use this gift card to re do the wall and make it totally awesome!
I have a empty family room wall..with no idea how to fill it.
My living room wall.
I love this eclectic look! The wall above our new couch is needing something like this.
I would like to wake up the walls in my living room and my stairway. They are looking pretty bare.
I just wish I had a big wall like yours to decorate. All the walls in my home are divided up with doors or windows; even the one in the hallway–which I guess would be the best choice for me.
I have a spot in my bedroom I would love tofill with family pictures
I have a blank wall leading up to my second floor. I would really like to do something with it.
I would love to wake up the wall in my living room!
I would wake up my living room wall for sure!
the wall on the way up the stairs and the wall where the stairs turn — perfect places!
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my bedroom wall need help
I want to wake up the upstairs hallway with this.
My living room wall
I would love to wake the wall over my couch in the living room. I am always looking for a better look, the walls in these photos are beautiful 🙂
I would like to wake up the wall in our den with with HP decor
I’d like to wake up my living room wall with collages!
Our family room walls could use some sprucing up!
Your wall is gorgeous!I would love to wake up the wall in my boring office space!
I love this! I have the perfect staircase wall to do this too!
The living rooms walls would look great with this.
OUr family room and hallway. all our walls are bare 🙁
we have never hung anything in our home and i keep meaning to do it but cant decide what i want up and what i dont. but we should at least do the living room wall!
Definitely my bedroom walls
Pick a wall. I’ve been here 3+ years and have yet to decorate anything, unless you want to call the calendar.
I would like to wake up the wall in my family room.
i need to make up three walls but the one i would like to make up most is the wall going up to the upstairs.
I have a bedroom accent wall that needs waking up!
thank you
I want to redo my living room. My walls need a paint job and decor.
My living room!
I want to wake up the wall in our family room with HP decor.
I’ve always found that textured art embedded with cloth and fibers in a mixed media provokes touch!
The bare wall above our living room couch could really use some sprucing up with HP!
I want to wake up my office walls
Wow – absolutely stunning! Great job! Would love to do something like this in our main hallway or family room area!
I LOVE your wall! So interesting. Something like this would be perfect for a sort of awkward wall in back of our front room near a hallway.
I would like to wake up the wall in my family room.
My living room wall is so bare and needs some attention with some pictures of family and friends to make it feel more like a home. I would like to wake it up with HP decor.
Definitely our living room so everyone can see!
My wife would love this. It looks great!
I have a wall that sort of seperates the kitchen and living room that would be perfect for some nice family photos. Thank you!
I would wake up the wall in my family room above the couch.
The wall over my bed is pretty bare and could use a nice gallery, maybe pics of the hubby and I over the years would be nice. Thanks for a great giveaway!
I’d like to wake up the wall in my living room.
I would like to wake up my wall in the den.
I would decorate the wall going down the stairs into our family room
My living room needs a wake up:)
our living room need some waking up.
I would like to spruce up the staircase. Ours is plain right now.
I would like to spruce up the staircase. Ours is plain right now.
I need to spruce up my staircase. It looks do plain.
The wall behind our couch in the basement! We are remodeling and I have no idea what to put there!
I would like to wake up my living room, it is very bare.
I want to wake up my hall with HP decor.
I’d love to do something like that with my foyer wall.
Beautiful. I would love to do something like this in our living room.
I have a wall in my family room that needs perked up.
My bedroom walls. They’re all white and undecorated so they definitely need some waking up!
I’ve been wanting to decorate a wall like that! The spot I’ve picked out is on the stairwell. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
We have a den wall that needs to wake up!
I am creating a wall of pictures using hp printer.
I want to wake up the wall between my living room and my kitchen. It is the first thing you see when you come upstairs to my apartment.
I need to wake up the wall across from my desk in my office. I sit staring at it all day… you’ve inspired me to try a picture grouping there!
I want to wake up the big empty wall in my master bedroom
We just bought a house with a long hallway. I would love to put pictures up there.
I would love to spruce up my living room
I would love to wake up my bedroom walls! they are so plain & boring!
Your wall is gorgeous! We need to wake up our entry way wall – you can see it from two different vantages in our home and it’s so boring and beige!
My living room wall is what I would want to fix up with HP decor.
Your wall is gorgeous! We need to wake up our entry way wall – you can see it from two different vantages in our home and it’s so boring and beige!
My living room wall is what I would want to fix up with HP decor.
Your wall is gorgeous! We need to wake up our entry way wall – you can see it from two different vantages in our home and it’s so boring and beige!
LOVE the wall! I’ve been wanting to do something similar to our entry way as you can see it from two vantage points and it’s just big, boring and beige. 🙁
LOVE the wall! I’ve been wanting to do something similar to our entry way as you can see it from two vantage points and it’s just big, boring and beige. 🙁
LOVE the wall! I’ve been wanting to do something similar to our entry way as you can see it from two vantage points and it’s just big, boring and beige. 🙁
LOVE the wall! I’ve been wanting to do something similar to our entry way as you can see it from two vantage points and it’s just big, boring and beige. 🙁
LOVE the wall! I’ve been wanting to do something similar to our entry way as you can see it from two vantage points and it’s just big, boring and beige. 🙁
this looks like something that would totally fit with our house.
My mud room needs a wall make over.
My stairwell walls need a change.
I would like to wake up my staircase wall.
Our bedroom has nothing on the walls..definitely need to update that!
I want to wake up my living room wall!
I want to wake up the wall in my living room above my couch.
I’d like the hallway to be decorated.
I would wake up my Family room wall with HP décor.
My living room wall.
I want to wake up my family room with want to wake up with HP decor.
our stair walls could use something too
I’d love to wake up the walls in my guest room because there is currently nothing on any wall! I’d love to do a gallery wall on at least one of the walls.
I want to wake up my living room wall
I want to wake up the walls in my hallway and behind my couch with photos of my family
I’d fresh up my entryway with lots of family photos
I’d like to wake up my family room wall with photo collages.
I’d like to wake up my bedroom walls
I would love to wake up the wall in my living room with my fireplace by adding HD color! It would look great on that wall against the stone fireplace!
I would like to remake my bedroom wall.
I would love to wake up my dining room wall with some HP decor!
My house is FULL of blank walls! I would start with the stairs between my kitchen and living room I think.
My office walls need some dressing up which is where I spend most of my day.
My living room wall.
I’d like to do a wall of family pictures over my fireplace.
So beautiful!! I totally need to do this to my walls 🙂
I would love to wake up all the walls in my den/ family room/ lil one’s play room lol.
I would love to do something in my bedroom, walls are too bare.
The wall in my home that I most want to wake up with HP décor is in the living room. The stairs leading to my son’s bedroom need a lot of help. I have always wanted to hang pictures of all different stages of his life. Thank-you for a great giveaway!
I’d love to do my hallway with family photos!
Our living room wall.
my bedroom wall. i have a huge empty wall that is dying to be covered in awesomeness!
A room in the living room would be a nice place.
I’d like to spruce up and decorate the one Living room wall adjacent to my front window
i want to wake up my living room wall
My living room needs to wake up
i would love to put pictures of my daughter in my living room
Id want to wake up my bedroom wall. Its pretty plain in there.
I Need To Wake Up My Living Room Walls With HP Photo Collages!
I LOVE THIS!!! I’m thinking the walls going up the stairs would be perfect! 🙂
I want to wake up my hallway
i’d love to do my hallway, i have hundreds of pictures of my kids that need to be put up!
I would like to wake up the bedroom walls! They are so bare and boring!
I think I’d like to do the wall above my couch. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Our living room wall next to the TV!
our living room is so “blah” we need to touch it up big time!
I would like to wake up my living room wall with some HP decor.
I would love to decorate my living room wall that is by the door. It it bare right now and could use some love!
Our hallway. It’s long and very boring!
I’d wake up my bedroom walls.
I would decorate my living room walls .
I would want to wake up my hallway going toward the bedroom and bathroom.
My foyer could use a bit of waking up. 🙂 Thank you.
I would love to fill my wall up with collages of my family on dogs on my living room wall. I have a big empty space that this would love gorgeous on
I have a wall on my living room that I would like to wake up with some HP Photo Decor!
we have a wall in our living room that needs something on it, this would be perfect for it.
every wall needs to be woken up
I want to wake up the wall over my fireplace.
Well i guess the bedroom wall would be a hood place to start.. We have wood panel walls all ober the house..
My family room and hallway need some pictures bad love the idea of some special collages of the hubby kiddos and I
I would love to wake up the wall in my living room above the fireplace
My hallway – I would love to decorate it with pictures there 🙂
my bedroom wall is completely empty and I’d love to wake it up!
my kitchen wall!!!
This would be great for our family room wall.
Staircase with 30 years of memories
My living room wall needs a great wall like that one!
The wall in my home I want to wake up with HP decor is my family room wall.
I’d like to decorate the space above the couch
Thanks for the giveaway… our den could use a makeover re some framed photos & prints.
Love your wall. I have one in the living room that could use this idea. Thanks!
I would love it on the master bedroom walls.
I would like to wake up my master bedroom wall with some HP decor
I want to wake up a wall in my hallway. You did a phenomenal job!
I would love to wake up my living room wall.
My living room needs a wake up since I haven’t done anything new to it for several years.
Thanks for the contest.
I’d like to wake up my living room wall above my couch!
I would love to do this in my living room! Love the idea!
I would definitely like to wake up the living room – the artwork you have arranged looks great and I will definitely have to check this out! Thanks for sharing!
We have a hallway we want to put all of our family photo’s on soon
I’d like to wake up the walls in my living room
The wall above my fireplace definitely needs some waking up.
I need to wake up my family room.It needs more color and decor.It is just too drab.
I would love to do this to a wall in my living room.
My bedroom wall, I feel as if I do pretty okay on the walls downstairs that people see the most. My work might not be super creative, but the walls are pretty and have plenty of photos, but upstairs in the bedroom I do absolutely nothing and I really would like to change that.
I would like to wake up my dining room with HP décor.
The wall in our den just plain needs help. Paneling that is too dark in the room and it makes the wall that isn’t paneled really hard to properly decorate. It is sad!
This is absolutely gorgeous. I have the perfect spot for it in my livingroom.
Love all the walls! We have the perfect complement: hookedonpaint.com and magnetic paint! Picture walls are so easy and no holes or hammers!