Re-purposing current decorations

So when we re-painted the living room

from deep Burgundy to lighter & brighter grayish/taupe

Our current decorations kind of looked out of place

So I am trying to not just go out & buy all new

but either re-purpose what we have

or make it myself

On the old walls we had a picture I had picked up at TJ Maxx

about 2 years ago...when we painted the first time :).

I still liked it, but it just felt a bit dark in the room now

it's the one on the left

So instead of just storing it downstairs

or putting it in the garage sale pile

I figured I could take it apart, play with it &

make it work with a lighter feel

First I painted the frame white

and the inerds (which was a plasticy insert made to look like metal)

a hammered metal I had on hand in the garage

Then I played around with different pictures

Here I tried it with different maps

Next I put in pictures from our family photo session with Carrie House

Scott voted for the photos

So I grabbed the mod podge

and just started gluing them on

(the pictures are just printed off from our printer)

Oh and then I decided the middle was too dark

and lightened that up as well

...still might need another coat

Here it is on our 1 finished wall (the others are still blank)

I love the green & blue picture frames

but I don't necessarily love them in that room so who knows they may

 change color again before this is all said and done :)