Use some Ribba frames from IKEA to personalize a long hallway or any long wall in your home! These frames look like a gallery wall!
I'm slowly personalizing my home. I still don't have much on the walls, but I'm tackling one space at a time. This week it's the hallway between my three kid/guest bedrooms and second bathroom.
On my recent trip to IKEA, I picked up three square Ribba frames and a Basisk track lighting kit for my small hallway update. In my last house I had a bunch of smaller frames on the hallway wall, but I decided to go for a big impact in this narrow, long hallway. I'll use my smaller frames in other spots.
The only place I could find that sold the right size print for these frames was Costco. They sell 12x12 prints. Perfect!
Update: I now order the 12x12 size from Shutterfly!
Thankfully(!), before I tried to hang my frames, I found this awesome, very helpful tutorial by Kelly over at View Along the Way on hanging Ribba frames. I had no idea it was so tricky, but it is. Classic IKEA. You just need a short screw and a paint stirrer. Click HERE for the tutorial on "how to get IKEA Ribba frames to behave."
I uncovered some old paint colors while doing this project. We removed the smoke alarm from the wall to reveal an old paint color. There's also one on the ceiling next to the light fixture. We don't know why they had two so close together. (We'll move the one from the wall to Miss A's room.) And when we changed the light, we found yet another paint color.
Too bad paint samples didn't come with the house. I'm planning to pick a new main color for our open floor plan soon. This gives me all the more motivation to get that done!
Update: See what color we picked for our living room and hallways!
This is my first time using IKEA Ribba frames and I really like them. I'll use them again. I think they're a fairly inexpensive way to make a big impact.
The lighting kit is awesome, too! It's off-center for our hallway and had to be angled a bit to leave room for the smoke alarm, but it works. And it means we have one less builder-grade "boob" light fixture in our house. Hallelujah!
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