My Beautiful Wall Collage - How to Hang and Make the Perfect Arrangement

I've always wanted to do a wall collage. Pinterest and the design blogs I follow have been so inspiring, so when I moved to this new place I knew that I had to do one. Now making a wall collage is not as easy as you would think, especially when you have concrete walls! I sat down for hours moving, rearranging, and replacing my art, until it was just perfect and even then I still made more changes. Since this is such a complex piece I decided to think outside the box and include new and old pieces, pictures of my best friends, art from my travels around the world, flea market finds, and a piece of art my BFF made me.

The most important thing about making a wall collage, is that it doesn't have to be perfect. The colors don't have to match, it doesn't need to be symmetrical, and not everything has to be the same shape. Keep playing around with the overall shape of your art. Make sure that is has appropriate spacing between each piece, if some are too close or too far from each other it will look funny. As you can see everything is off centered, but the over all shape of the piece has the same amount of weight on each side. Doing this helps to make the piece more visually appealing. 

Once it was perfectly arranged, I took a picture of my art.

Many of my frames did not have hooks, so the next thing I had to do was go to the hardware store, purchase mini hook, and attach them to the backings. After that I traced each piece onto a piece of paper (notated where the hook was), cut them out, and then taped them on the wall according to my photo.

This was so I could make sure my art looked at good on the wall as it did on the floor. It was also very helpful to my handyman because he knew exactly where to hang each piece. 

This hung on my wall for about a month before I hung anything, just to make sure I was happy with it. Its not easy to make changes when you have concrete walls.

We started in the middle and worked our way out, while measuring to make sure that everything was perfectly centered in the middle of the wall and aligned with one another.

Once it was done I was THRILLED!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the way this looks! My apartment is one step closer to being perfect!

Here's a close up of the wall.