Around The Room | Living With Your Photos + Color Inc Giveaway
I'm a huge fan of living with your photos. Out of albums, off your computer and onto your walls.
Over the years I've amassed quite a collection of family images - many of the recent ones being mounted rather than framed as you'll see below (and above). When I first starting hanging up photos I wanted them to be all black frames with white mats. Now I'm really enjoying the variety of both the framed and simply mounted images.
Around our house I've got quite a few gatherings happening on the walls. Some are consistent collections (meaning all mounted or all framed) and others are a mixture of the two.
The first ones I want to talk about line the hall from our entry into the kitchen.
The images are 12x12 photos are "standout mounted" from Color Inc. (Color Inc is a sponsor of my blog and has been generous with samples for me in the past and as you'll see below. This set I purchased on my own. They are excellent quality and have wonderful customer service.) When we moved into this house I ordered eight or nine of these with the intent that they would be grouped together and I love them.
They are mounted onto the wall using Miller Studio Magic Mounts removable mounting tabs. I tried a couple of other brands and these have worked the best.
You might have seen this image a couple weeks ago. This is in our dining area, between the kitchen and living room. This wall has a combination of framed and mounted images. The one of Simon and Anna in the blue shirts is from Persnickety Prints.
Upstairs I've got a few other collections starting. In the room you enter before coming into my office I've got a large standout mount from Color Inc (photo taken by Tracey Clark). That one is 3o inches x 20 inches.
In my office I've included two Ikea frames with 12x12 photos of me and Chris as kids. I enlarged these 1970's photos on my scanner and they were printed at Scrapbookpictures.com. These hung in Anna's room in our last house.
A little collage in Simon's room that includes photos, Star Wars stamps, and a signed photo of Yoda from Frank Oz.
And this one was in Anna's room in our last house. I didn't recreate it here yet, but it was a favorite in the old place.
In our bedroom I'm just beginning to build a photo wall.
The newest addition is a Framed Gallery Wrap Canvas from ColorInc. As one of my sponsors they kindly sent me this new product to review and want me to give one away as well (with your own photo of course).
Here's what they have to say about this new product:
Love the sleek modern style of a Gallery Wrapped Canvas? Now you can add a frame! Our Gallery Wrapped Canvas Frames will give you that same modern and edgy look you've wanted but with a touch of traditional style to give you a unique shadow box feel to add to any home, work, or studio wall space!
These ready to hang Gallery Wrapped Canvases come with a 2 1/8'' deep smooth black laminate frame. With a 1/2'' floating space between your canvas and frame, each of our hand wrapped canvas prints will be permanently attached with the finest attention to detail. Each piece will arrive properly finished with a wire hanger, bumpers and Tyvek® backing. A true first class upgrade to your studio or home!
These Framed Gallery Wrapped Canvases are really, really nice. I didn't realize when I was ordering it that there's a space between the frame and the wrapped canvas but when I opened the package here at home I was really pleasantly surprised. I'd definitely consider ordering another one.
GIVEAWAY | One Framed Gallery Wrapped Canvas (20 x 14 or smaller) from ColorInc.
TO BE ENTEREDinto this giveaway please leave a comment below sharing how you live with your photos (if you are reading this post on Facebook please come to my blog to leave a comment). Comments will be closed at noon Pacific on Friday and the winners posted shortly after. Please be sure to check back or subscribe (click here to get posts delivered to your email box) to see if you are receiving one of the items this week.
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I have a photo wall, but I definitely want to enlarge and improve.
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Unfortunately, I have very few photos out. When we moved I just never got around to hanging them up like they were in our old house. I miss them, especially now. My boys are 19, 15, and 14, those early years are over, the little boys that they were are gone. It would be nice to have pictures up to remind me of how much they have grown.
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What a delightful giveaway-thank you! I am beginning to enjoy combining my photos with digital scrapbooking, then printing out to frame. I have a 3-way frame downstairs that I have switched out from Christmas, to Valentine's Day, to Springtime. Great Christmas gift for my husband!
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I have one living room wall painted a light turquoise/baby blue that serves as an entire display wall gallery of photos. Amidst my daughter's paintings in our guest room (it is a beach theme) I'm planning a smaller gallery of 'beach' theme photos that I've taken over the years.
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I have photos everywhere including baby hand and foot prints. Your walls are inspirational. I have alwys wanted to do a canvas photo.
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These picture collections are awesome! Once I move out of my apartment into a house I plan on making some of these as well, but I've been moving around so much, it's difficult!
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We made a silly rule as newlyweds that we wouldn't hang art on the wall unless we made it ourselves. That has translated into mostly photographs decorating our home, though there are plenty of bare walls that still need dressing up. Thanks for this wonderful giveaway.
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We have many photos displayed of our first son taken by a professional photographer. I just received maternity photos and photos from our baby's newborn session...now I have so many photos and have to figure out the walls to put them on :) I have ordered from Color Inc. and the quality is outstanding!
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I have a couple of framed photo collages or groups of photos, and we have one gallery wrap that I love. I'd like to get more of our photos out of albums and onto our walls.
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Hi Ali,
I love photos! Pictures of my two boys are really all that I have decorating my home. I just love this digital age we are in. Thanks for the chance to win.
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I have photos in albums and once in a while it will be framed. Mostly the pictures atr tucked away on an SD card.
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We have framed family images throughout our home - we've used off-the-shelf frames, multi-photo frames, and custom cut frames and mats.
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Mine are displayed in many different ways. My two favorites are the picture wall of my daughter, all in black frames, and vintage photos in a tall photo carousel.
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I'm trying to be better about getting photos out of the computer and on display. Right now, I have some small ones in frames on shelves but I'm currently redoing the family room and hope to organize a photo wall when the painting is complete.
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We did a rather large addition to our house which included a long art gallery hallway -- photos of our kids are encased in black frames and stand out from the walls using hardware from Pottery Barn. Love it.
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I love having framed photos everywhere in my home. I am just starting a photo wall and will look to you for my inspiration!!
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I frame some, and have started creating more photobooks.
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I am building a photo wall in my stairway. My biggest thing is figuring out which photos I want to put up! I love the links to online printing places, that is also a bit of an issue. Thanks!
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My favorite photo wall is a grouping whose center is our wedding invitation beautifully framed surrounded by vintage photos ourselves and family symmetrically
Acted up. (ie me with my brother on right, hubby with sisters on right; my mother when young, hubby's momwhen young) frames are Ll the same design but different sizes and configurations. Everyone comments and Ive recreated in several homes now.
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I love having family photos up on the walls. I am trying to achieve a balance between keeping up old favorites while still bringing in new ones, too. There isn't room for all of them in our little space, so I try to pick and choose my favorites. I don't have any "mounted images", ours are just all in frames, but I would love to try one as the simplicity of just the image is beautiful!
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