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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Most of my displayed photos are on shelves or flat surfaces. Thanks to your inspiration, I will soon have photos on my walls!
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I love photo walls too. Pretty much every room in my house has a grouping of photos on a wall. I especially love the way photos look on canvas.
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I am sending my husband a link to this post as he so loves putting photographs around the wall! One of our little grandaughters said to him one day (when he was mentioning hanging another photo) "Grandad, haven't you got enough pictures on your wall"!
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Unfortunately most of my photos live on my computer :( But I've been thinking about doing a gallery wall in our hallway. I'd love to start with one of these canvases!
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Most of my family photos are hung alone or in groups of two. I love the large groups you created and look forward to trying this technique. This mounted photo would be a great start. Thanks Ali!
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Once again, super inspirational!!! Thanks Ali! Wish I could leave work right now and go arrange some picture groups! Currently we have our photos mostly framed in black on table/desk tops...although I did just hang a few here and there over this past weekend. Our home has some huge walls that are daunting to me...I don't want a picture group to be lost. I will have to be creative though! Thanks again!
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I love photo walls! We just moved, just got our wedding photos back, and have a baby on the way.. so our walls will have lots photos soon enough! I'm still in the process of finding frames & mats, but when they're done, I'll be looking at your photo walls for inspiration! What a cool sponsor, I love the gallery wrapped look!
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I want to do more of this in my home. Thanks for the inpiration.
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I have small collections of photos scattered throughout the house, but very little on the walls. Would love to try this!
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Love your photo walls - we have one but small wall space in my house prevents having many of them! The framed gallery wrap looks fabulous - I love the space between the frame and the canvas.
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Wow! Love all your photo walls. They make a home so much warmer. We have a few walls with photos but would love to have some on canvas. Thanks!
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We have our photos scattered around the house, but I would LOVE to add more!
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I have wall groupings in most every room and also have photos on the sideboard and some tables. When I pass through a room the love of family and friends is felt as well as special memories are often remembered. This is a great giveaway--thanks for the chance to win.
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I've been wanting to try a canvas but haven't taken that perfect picture yet. I do have a collage of black and whites of my kids when they were small and I love it.
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I have some pictures on the wall but I need to hang more. Your post will inspire me to do that. I have used scrapbookpictures.com for my 12 X 12 photos. I will definately look at Color Inc. Your groupings look fantastic.
Sandi
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I have a photo wall in our guest bedroom. It is a mix of very old and new photos of our relatives and friends. They love to reminisce when they visit. I also have an oversized photo collage I do every year hanging outside my son's room. Then through out the rest of the house there is a mix of smaller and larger sized photos.
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Most of mine are waiting to be scrapbooked, too. I scrapbook my calendar as I go, too, and put some in there.
We travel a lot and have started framing one picture from every place we visit, as well as some artwork we pick up by local street artists. Currently, we frame them in black with white mats. I would love to try something new.
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I have several 5x7 and 4x6 photos in frames on shelves but there is next to nothing on the walls. I need to do something about that.
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I have newly painted walls in our den that are begging for photos...and with a new grandson and lots of dive pictures, I'm sure I'll soon cover them with photos.
Even our motorhome bedroom has photos that have replaced the prints on the walls.
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I love your photo displays! I have been adding more pictures to our walls too, but still more work to do. :)
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