After installing my new wine crate-turned-floating nightstand in January, in February I continued to make some small changes in the bedroom.

After a failed attempt at a quirky gallery wall on the wall opposite the bed, I installed a floating shelf from Ikea on a side wall and moved my few bits and pieces to it.  (The reason the gallery wall “failed” is because we weren’t successfully collecting cool pieces to add to it.)

However, I still don’t like it.  The dark frames look ridiculous, my LOVE painting is almost blending into the wall because it’s not framed, and the scale is all off.  I think the problem is that the shelf is out of context on this wall. It just looks kind of random to me.

On the wall opposite the bed I hung a framed, large-scale photo of an ocean sunrise taken by my good friend Crysty.  It’s the perfect complement to our personalized beach photos on the other side of the bed.

Now that I’m looking over the photos, I’m wondering if it would make more sense to hang the beach sunrise where the shelf is, and hang the shelf with art above the cedar chest (which is soon to be replaced by a big new dog bed).  I think that might balance out better.

Also, the other beach photos are framed in silver frames.  I’m thinking I should change the frames on the new additions to coordinate.  The dark frames seem too abrasive on these light walls.

What do you think?  Looking at these photos makes me think I need to go back and take  Decorating 101 again.