How I Decorate With My Own Pictures - New York, New York

When I choose to hang something on the wall, I like it to be something meaningful if I can.  Pictures from a favorite vacation spot are a great example.

For being the country mice that my husband and I are, we definitely enjoy visiting the Big Apple.  The first time we were there, my husband went crazy taking pictures of all the scenery.  Now that our middle daughter lives there, these pictures are all the more meaningful.

Although our cabin is very rustic, our home is much more metropolitan in style so New York pictures fit right in.  I was initially inspired by a picture that I had purchased of Central Park which sits on our mantel:

So with the pictures that my husband had taken on our first vacation, I did a little work using Adobe Photoshop.  I simply printed the images in a sepia finish to give it the same look as the purchased picture.  I then purchased frames and mattes in the same colors as my inspiration picture.

Now we have a whole set of some of our favorite spots!  I can look at them now and picture what my daughter is seeing every day.