home decor and wall art

jill: do you have lots of wall art in yourhome and you're looking for ideas on how to hang it? do you want your home to be thisreally beautiful personalized lovely place to hang out? well, stay tuned because we aregoing to show you lots of awesome art in my mom's house and we're going to give you ideason how to hang it, how to hang art in your own home. so, this log house that we're shootingvideo in today is the house i grew up in. it is a log home my mom and dad built themselves32 years ago. they've been married 46 years and you'll see the wall art that we're talkingabout. a lot of it is very sentimental and personal to them. a lot of it was createdby family members. so, we're excited to show you around. as a side note, these guys areranchers. they raise natural beef and so this

home is on a real live cattle ranch just likeback in the wild west. char: well, we're still kind of wild.jill: but you're still a lot wild. char: oh, when i walked in there was so muchmore color in my room which i've always wondered how to do actually but i also felt the energy,the change in energy. i felt a lot of love emanating from all these pieces that so manypeople that were so totally in my life were here, were with me in the living room.jill: so, do i look like vanna white? no? not even close? not even a little bit? a littlebit? char: this my aunt norma did, she's a paternalaunt and her daughter was going through college taking art classes and it inspired her totry something out herself. she has all the

colors. i feel like there is everything fromspring to fall colors in here. it's a real lively painting yet of a serene scene andit's just something very special to me. this is a painting very special to me, number onebecause jill did it. didn't she do a beautiful job? i love it. it's also our life. we'vespent a lot of time on horse and this actually looks like her brother so it's as though wehave a family member with us all the time in our house and welcoming people at the frontdoor. jill: i love cowboys. they don't talk muchbut they work really hard and they're family orientated.char: you can always tell a cowboy but you can't tell him much. this is my mother-in-law'spiece, jill's grandma and she took care of

the kids a lot and loved the country. shegrew up in this country. this is the country that we live in and she is a self-taught artistand she painted the cattle a lot and her husband riding and the beautiful landscape and shewould just take a picture and then start painting. her husband always came in whenever the workwas done which could be most often 9 or 10 o'clock at night to come for supper and shewould just pull out her paints and paint and patiently wait for him until he showed upand then she'd hurry up and put a meal on but she did a lot of paintings in her adultlife after her kids grew up and this is just as. you could find this by looking at thispicture, you could travel the countryside and find exactly where that was. she was quiteexacting in how she painted her pictures.

and of course we love this one here. it remindsrich of his mom and me of someone that nurtured me a lot.jill: one of the biggest mistakes people make when they're hanging art is they hang it waytoo high on the wall then it looks weird. i'm 5'6", this piece of art is hung a lotlower than that and it looks great. the taller people think it looks great. the shorter peoplethink it looks great. so, when in doubt, hang the art a lot lower on the wall than you thinkyou're going to need to hang it. char: this piece was done by a nephew andhe and jill actually went to kindergarten together and i drove them part of the time.i watched him grow up. he, as well as so many others in the family that become fantasticartists and this is of a cabin that is on

our property in the hills. it's a range landthat we put the cattle on in the fall and this was a cabin that was actually one ofthe settlers in the family who has settled this country and it was in a place that wasgoing to be sprinkled which would grew on the cabin and so we took it apart piece bypiece and brought it up here when jill was a little girl and he caught this beautifulcabin in its setting and since then the cabin has been torn down. we're really sad aboutthat but we have this beautiful painting that reminds us of all the years that we were ableto stay in overnight in that cabin. we even cross country skied up there one year. butbrent is the fellow that made this, brent cotton, and he also made the frame.so, this is also a real treasure for us. this

is a piece that my stepmother drew. she wasa wonderful lady and did a lot to help the family and i love this picture for the contrast.she has a real dark background with these bright white poppies and the white vase. it'sjust a beautiful picture and it's very bright and with the light around the edge, it justreally pops and i can see her painting it. she's with us. this is a piece, this is aphoto. it's my father-in-law fred and he's on maynard, one of his favorite horses andthis is my husband back here. he'd opened the gate and he'd gotten off this horse andhe was just riding this horse enough to calm him down for me to ride him and his name wasspook and it was a well-deserved name. this photo was taken by my brother-in-law jim cottonand my husband, rich, made the frame out of

just a board from an old building that wason the place and that's that art and i love the rustic look of this piece.jill: so, what was your favorite piece of art in this video? leave a comment below thisvideo and let us know. now we want to encourage you to hang art that you love in your home.make sure its pieces that make you happy. make sure that its real art, if you can affordreal art or get art created from your family members. it has a lot better energy on thepiece. it is more meaningful and it will create that specialness in your hone that makes itunique and it makes it you so you can really find the you in your home and really lovethe home that you come home to everyday. i'm sure you could tell how much my mom lovesthe art in her home. it makes her heart happy.

it makes her happy. it brings tears to hereyes. it brings a lot of joy to her heart. that's what i want for you. enjoy the artyou have. make sure it's meaningful to you. this is your home. it should be somethingthat's very heartfelt and make you happy every time you look at it, lift up your spirit everytime you look at it, make your heart explode with joy every time you look at it. so that'swhat i want for you. be sure and go to www.homestylus.com to the blog and you'll get lots more informationthere. don't forget to subscribe to my channel. i teach all about home decorating and thevideos are really fun, informative and heartfelt. char: i agree.jill: i love you mom.

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