"If I'm being totally honest, taking down the living room gallery wall was part of a larger restart in 2025 for me. Approximately 10 to 20 frames of crowded, colorful artwork on the walls were beginning to feel overwhelming to me (in addition to some other overwhelming stuff going on). I was seeking something simpler, and I really liked AT contributor Jessie Quinn's idea of creating gallery clusters - groupings of just one to three frames."
"I don't love art with words on it. I've never been a Live/Laugh/Love (or anything close) sign person, personally. I used to have some art with text on it, but I decided this was overwhelming, too. Because I look at words all day long for work, I do not want to see them on my walls. I want to see pictures."
"At first, it was a fun collaboration between me and my roommate. And I actually highly recommend the process of creating a joint gallery wall to any new roomies, whether they're in college or freshly graduated (or even beyond). Immediate bonding experience! Immediate compromise of two styles! All of your stuff will look better together this way!"
The resident had a gallery wall of colorful artwork printed in college and displayed on the living-room right-hand wall during early adulthood. The gallery wall began as a collaborative project with a roommate, creating a bonding experience and a compromise of styles. After the roommate moved, the gallery wall was taken down as part of a larger personal restart in 2025 because roughly 10–20 crowded frames began to feel overwhelming amid other life stressors. The resident shifted toward gallery clusters of one to three frames and toward larger-scale art. Text-based art was avoided because reading words at work made worded wall art undesirable. Large art reduces visual noise but can be costly and heavy to hang.
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