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Home Decor January 15, 2018 · 3 min read

5 Tips for Personalizing Your Home with Unique Art

Dapper and Darling - Custom Silhouette Print - 5 Tips for Personalizing Your Home with Unique Art

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It took me a long time to decide what to put on our walls. Nate and I aren’t big “art people” and while I feel like I have my own style that I love, I’m very indecisive (and on a budget). After living in our home for almost 8 years I have finally figured out exactly how I want to decorate our space. Here are a few tips that I have put together for personalizing your home with unique art after taking SO long to find what I love.
Dapper and Darling - Custom Silhouette Print - 5 Tips for Personalizing Your Home with Unique Art
1. Turn photos of your children and/or furbabies into works of art. – Silhouette paintings are my absolute favorite type of personalized art. This watercolor silhouette of Landon by Dapper and Darling is definitely my favorite piece of art I have ever owned. I sent them a photo of Landon’s profile, chose the type of wreath, and the watercolor shade. I chose “Dream Greens” for the wreath style and “Twilight” for the watercolor. It matches my house perfectly! You can get $5 off of your own with CODE: LEXINGTONLIFE5. Click here to view all of the options!

2. Decorate based on your location/where you call home. – We Kentuckians have quite a bit of state pride, so I love our gold foil print of Kentucky! And as a Florida native, I also purchased the foil print of the Tampa/St. Pete area where Nate and I got married. I still haven’t found the right frame for that one! Nate and I love to travel so our very first purchase was a large map of the US that we had framed. We stick little push pins in it that are color-coded depending on where we’ve been together or by ourselves. He got that idea from his Grandparents who traveled to all 50 states and had a similar map hanging in their basement. I love it and it’s pretty big so it is the focal point of our living room.

Dapper and Darling - Custom Silhouette Print - 5 Tips for Personalizing Your Home with Unique Art
3. Find art that means something to you. – I chose a peacock theme for our wedding and color scheme. The peacock canvas print above was given to me by my parents as a birthday gift and it looks perfect in our living room! You can find some of our peacock wedding décor throughout our house. I like having a little bit of a theme throughout the house and continuing to keep some memories from our wedding around!

4. Print your photos! – Seriously. Print out your photos regularly and hang them up. Don’t let your memories go to waste stored on your computer hard drive! I print mine about twice a year through Shutterfly and switch them out. It makes me so happy to see all of our beautiful family photos around our home.

5. Display your art and photos in a unique way. – I have a large old window hanging in my living room which I have strung twine inside of to hang photos. It matches the style of my house and feels much more interesting to me than if I just hung them in simple frames. Put up shelves, too! I have the Kentucky foil print and the Dapper and Darling silhouette sitting on individual shelves. It makes them stand out a bit more!

Dapper and Darling - Custom Silhouette Print - 5 Tips for Personalizing Your Home with Unique Art
How do you choose what you hang on your walls? Are you sentimental or do you buy things on the fly that you like? I think I will forever be that person who needs everything to have meaning and I’m okay with that! 😀

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