decorating

I love the way our living room is setup now. What was once a too-large, half-empty room is now homey, comfortable and  feels just right. With one exception: the lonely wall behind the sofa. That empty space is where I have been wanting to build a gallery wall. I have been gathering some art, posters and pictures and now I might have almost enough… but I still find the task daunting: how to place the pictures? Mix colors or keep a simple palette? How big and how small can I go with the individual pieces on the wall?

Which is when I went in search of some Pinspiration:

Aren’t they just lovely?

I love the look of black and white photos, but I don’t want to go completely monochrome. I think I want to add some pops of color, and definitely different types of textures. Because the rest of the room isn’t really ornate or busy, I want this wall to have a lot going on . Here are a few pictures I am considering:

The NYC skyline and the Audrey Hepburn posters I got at Target before we moved back to Zurich. The purple flower is from IKEA, I just thought it was so pretty! The painting with the ombre sky and the Chrysler Building is by one of my favorite artists, Carl Röhrig. And the one with the arches is a canvas print of a picture I took two years ago in Barcelona. Here’s a close-up:

It’s kind of cool, isn’t it? This will be the first time I hang a picture I took myself. I have been thinking for a while of getting canvas prints of some of my favorite pictures, and finally I took the plunge!

Now here’s where it gets interesting for you:
the lovely people at Photo Canvas, who generously allowed me to play around with their software until I found a combination I liked (such patience! but hey, a girl likes to check out her options, right?), well… they want to give you a free canvas print as well!

That means you can choose your favorite photo, like a gorgeous scenery you enjoyed while on vacation, or that adorable picture of your kids that you shot last Christmas, or maybe that photo where you are cozing up to your favorite celeb (Tim Gunn, anyone?)… and get it printed and mounted on a lovely canvas-and-wood frame, and hang it right there in your home office, or your living room… easy bragging, no word spoken

Getting your print coulnd’t be easier: you go to photo-canvas.com, choose your preferred size, upload your picture, and you get a preview of what your fabulous print will look like.
The software is designed in such a way that you will get an alert if the image definition isn’t good enough for the size you picked, so you can just go ahead and experiment until you land on the combination you think would be just perfect.

Photo-Canvas ships everywhere in the world, so this giveaway is open internationally!

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Good luck everyone!

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Image credits: 1. Domino; 2. Decor Happy; 3. Pottery Barn . All via Pinterest.
All other images property of Elisa Bieg and Globetrotting In Heels; please do not use without permission.

Disclaimer: This giveaway is sponsored by photo-canvas.com. I have received no remuneration for the opinions shared in this post; they are my own. I have received a complementary custom print from photo-canvas.com and the chance to give one away to my readers. The winner will be able to select a customized 30×40 canvas print from the following options: Che Pop Art canvas, Colour Splash canvas, make your own montage canvas, or message canvas. This giveaway doesn’t include special effect like Banksy and Hockney montages. 

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