Lovely ideas! Just this weekend, since we had a bit of spare time, we actually tackled painting a hallways I've wanted to color in since we moved here three years ago, and I'm hanging black and white pictures in gallery style frames of our pets all along the walls. The black and white photos against a deep red wall is something I love in other places but have never done in my own home, so it feels fancy and exciting, and then pictures I've taken of our pets makes it really personal. Well, it will, anyway, once I get them all hung!