A little brag and your thoughts, please?

First I wanted to show off the fact that my lovely husband got me roses for our anniversary yesterday. I love getting flowers, and they make me happy every time I look at them.

Sigh :)

After I put them in water, I stuck them on our new hall table and liked how it looked so much that I thought I'd show you too. Let it be known that I'm no interior design blogger, and for good reason! However, I do enjoy putting our house together and getting things just the way I want them, and am usually very pleased with the result. 

Why, yes, our shoes always look like that!

I really like the little console table (Pier 1, if you were wondering) and am really happy with how it fits in the space. I looked for one for completely ages, but couldn't find the right thing, and was hesitant to buy anything until we put the tile in. The carpet that you see on the left used to go about 2/3 of the way across the wall, so any table would have had two legs on carpet and two legs on tile and just looked weird. Then, once the tile was in, Nick looked around online (after I had warned him how hard it was to find anything that would work and how I had been looking for four years), and in less than 20 minutes he came up with this. After that I introduced him to West Elm, and within minutes we had picked out the bowl that we use to catch keys, sunglasses and the general contents of my husband's pockets. So all of that was simple and straightforward enough, and looked great the moment we brought it in the house. 

Here's what is really stumping me: what do we do with the wall above the table? I feel like the framed photo we currently have up there gets a little lost in the space. I think we either need to go with one bigger piece, or lots of smaller ones. A big mirror would make a lot of sense, but we already have a huge mirror over the couch on the opposite wall, and my narcissism only goes so far. 

Right now I like the idea of doing a little collection of eclectic stuff in frames, like family photos, framed postcards and posters of significant places for our family, maybe a photo of where we were married, that sort of thing. But I'm a bit worried that we will end up with a hot mess on our wall instead. We tend to be drawn to clean lines and symmetry, and I'm not sure if we could actually pull off the kind of hodgepodge I'm envisioning. 

I'm also thinking that one of these maps could be awesome. I like the idea of marking the places where our family is from. I wish it was portrait-oriented instead of landscape to fit the space better, but I can't exactly ask that world maps be drawn differently to suit me. They do country maps too, but haven't added Norway to the list yet. Otherwise it might be cool to hang the US, UK and Norway together. Pretty please? 

So, now that you've seen the space and read my stream-of-consciousness thoughts on it, what do you think? Feel free to throw out some idea on what to use the itty bitty shelf under the table for too. Go hive brain, go!