INSIDE: How to decorate a wood pallet wall with personal photos. How to make a gallery wall on DIY wood pallet shiplap wall.
Pallet walls! We all love them. They can work in a kitchen, living room or bedroom. They can work with modern or traditional decor. They are all the rage on the TV design shows and all over Pinterest. Which is why I’m not going to give you yet one more tutorial on how to install a pallet wall. Instead I’m going to show you how we decorated our pallet wall.
If you love the look of a pallet wall as much as we do, hopefully this will spark some inspiration and creativity on what to do with the pallet wall once it’s up.
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How To Decorate a Wood Pallet Wall with a Photo Display
Our family room – the room we seem to spend the majority of our time – has taken on something of a beachy-vibe. Even though we live in the desert, the beach seems to be our happy place. The California coast is where us “Zonies” (aka: Arizonans) go to escape our insane summer heat!
So when we moved into our home, we needed and wanted something to cover up a wall of planked wood that just felt old and tired. And what better way to get a beach vibe than with (more!) old wood?
Is your pallet safe for indoors?
How do you know if the pallet you found sitting by a dumpster or at back of the grocery store is safe to use inside your home? Apparently, there are all sorts of different pallets out there in the great big world and they are all treated differently. Here is a handy cheat sheet for you to reference before you haul that pallet home, courtesy of 1001Pallets.
How to Decorate Wood Shiplap Wall
We aren’t too over-the-top with our decorating so for us, less is more. Plus, don’t you want the several weekend long project to be the showstopper?
Many years back, during our annual summer pilgrimage to the California coast, we snapped a super cute photo of our now 6 year old dipping her little finger into the ocean. We have since snapped similar photos of kids #2 and #3 in the same spot on the same beach. So we blew up these sweet beach-y photos to a 16×20″ size and framed them in vintage thrift store finds.
I found some interesting frames here that I then painted the same color in order for them to look cohesive.
My husband’s job takes him around Southern Arizona. During his many travels back-n-forth across our state, he has come across our kiddos names on real, legit streets…even one in a gated community which he “broke” into in order to snap a photo of “Sophie Lane”. We printed these street names on metal at an 11×14″ size.
Hope this simple pallet gallery wall provides you with some inspiration for how to decorate yours. Want to see another unique gallery wall idea?
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This looks great! I love the wall. And your helpers definitely earned their snacks. Pinning!
Thanks!
I love the pallet wall! It is a project I hope to do when we move to central OH. Recycling pallet wood is a smarter idea than purchasing shiplap from the home improvement store. And, I love your finishing touch – the pictures of your three children at the beach and the street sign names. Such creative ideas you have. Such a visionary!
I love your pallet wall! I’ve always wanted to do something like this. Thanks for sharing your tutorial at the Wednesday Showcase!
Thank you! It’s a great look.
The rustic pallet wall is fabulous! The pictures of the children is precious! And I love the metal wall art with the street names of the kids! Great idea! …thanks for visiting me, and for the kind comment left! Hope you’ll be back! 🙂 ~Rhonda
Gorgeous wall! I’m sure you’re thrilled with it!!! Just great!!!
Thank you!
What an awesome wall. It came out fabulous. Love your terrific helpers 😉
I love this palette wall, so pretty! I also love that your husband was able to get photos of your kids’ names, so cute!
Thanks! My kids don’t have the most common names so it’s pretty amazing we found their names as streets.
“Will work for snacks”…ohmigosh, I’m dying!! Mine are that way too! Love thepallet wall and thanks so much for stopping by. 🙂
The wall looks great and thanks for sharing the tip on pallet wood safety.!!
I love your gallery pallet walls – your kiddos photos look beautiful! Thanks for sharing i at Talk of the Town – I pinned it to the party board!
I love anything pallet, love this wall and the street sign names, swoon! Thanks for linking up to Talk of the Town–you are my favorite pick of the week ;)!
Thanks! Looking forward to stopping by next week.
I love this idea, I have seen the names of our family members, but never thought about utilizing them. Thanks for sharing followed you here from the Weekend Retreat party, pinned.
It was unusual to find street names for all kids but happy we did! Thanks for stopping by.
This is so awesome! I love the look of pallet wood and have done many projects using it, but this takes inspiration to the next level! Gorgeous – bravo!
Thank you so much for saying that!
Thanks so much for linking this up to our Bewitchin’ Projects Block Party this week! It is beautiful and I absolutely love that look 🙂 Will be sharing on the Recreated Designs Facebook page for you tomorrow. Have a wonderful week! Hugs, Lisa
Thank you for stopping by and for featuring my pallet wall. I will be sure to stop by your Facebook page.
I love the photos of your children at the beach. How adorable! Thanks for sharing your tips and inspiration for decorating a pallet wall at Snickerdoodle Sunday. Pinning.
Thanks for linking up to You’re gonna love it. I am featuring this this week since I love it so much!
Great, thank you! See you tonight on the link-o-sphere!
Good Morning!! I wanted to let you know that your post has been selected as a Feature post for the Welcome Home Wednesdays Link Party! Stop by this morning to see your post linked up and grab your Featured Button too! ~Lisa~
Your pallet wall is magnificent–great safety tips to go along with it and your wall art choices are just perfect. Love the idea of all three kids in roughly t he same position and the street signs with their names is SO clever 🙂 Thanks for linking up with us at Vintage Charm–
I love how painting the frames made them all work together. Great idea.
The street names are brilliant. I went to New York with some friends last year and we had to pass by Hester St so my friend Hester could get a shot of her street sign! I wonder if she has done anything creative with hers.
LOVE this idea! The street signs are so smart!
I really love how your wood pallet wall turned out & the photos. Thanks for sharing your post at the #InspirationSpotlight party. Pinned & shared.
I love your pallet wall! Awesome that the kids were such big helpers, and the street names are too sweet.
What a great idea. My kids are all married and I have grandkids, wish I had seen something like this years ago when mine were little. Love it when someone thinks out of the box. Thanks for sharing. Now I have to bug my children for pics of the grandkids. Thanks for sharing.
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada . Keep your wonderful ideas coming?
Thanks for your kind words. I’m originally from Canada as well – Ontario.
What a spectacular wall! I am in love with the color variations of wood. The story behind the pictures is so lovely and that last photo of your children sitting there looking at themselves and their names is precious! thanks for sharing at TADA!
Looks great! Love your little helpers 🙂 Thanks for sharing with us at Creatively Crafty #ccbg
Victoria,
I love your pallet wall! Your work in the Frames and on the floor is amazing too. Thanks for hanging out with TADA this week.
Happy Creating,
Karen Marie
Thanks Karen! We love the wall (and the kids) too! 😉
I’m all about pallet projects! I love how this looks! I’d love it if you’d share this for my I DIYed that linky party!
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Thanks Jen! What day/time does your party start?
Looks great! Both the pallet wall and your pics – love it!
How thoughtful of your husband to find the kids names on street signs. I didn’t even know you print on metal! What a fantastic idea! Love love love the wall. Pinned the pallet cheat sheet, thanks for posting it.
Thanks Audra! Yes, you can print on almost anything these days.
It looks like you have great helpers! The wall turned out amazing and great tips on which pallets to use safely!
That looks fabulous! Pinned.
That wall is so pretty! And I love the contrasting color of the frames, just perfect. Thank you for sharing at The Really Crafty link Party. Pinned!
Love your style the wall looks awesome. You have also inspired me to implement a pallet wall in my home with our remodel.
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That is such a smart way to decorate for the pallet wall. The bright unified color of the frames really does stand out nicely against the wood.
The wall is adorable! That’s so neat your husband for a street for each of your kids. Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday.
That photo of them all looking at the finished wall is brilliant!
This is great and the info on pallet safety is really useful too, thanks.