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 tend to print a bunch of wallet size photos and collage them in a big frame. That way I get to see lots of images of our family in one spot.
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I love all your photos around the house! We have a lot of photos up, too, but I need to get more printed. I like to display my layouts for awhile, too, before they go into the scrapbooks.
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I have a wall full of my pictures, but all of them is in different frames. I sort of think that I collect frames. I just love living with my pictures and see how the kids grow and how me and my husband get older. I would love to add one of these frames to my collection. This would be great.
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I just recently redid my bedroom and added a bunch of photos, along table tops, 2 large canvas mounted prints on the wall, and a room divider/ pictutre frame filled with recent travel pics of all the places we have visited. I would like to add some downstairs as well. I too am trying to live with my photos more!
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Love the gallery walls. We have a wall of framed photos going up our stairway, but mostly B&W old photos of our extended family, grandparents, etc.
My oldest definitely has more framed photos than his two younger brothers. I need to make this a priority this year. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I would much rather decorate with photographs than with paintings or other artwork. We have a wall of framed photos upstairs from some studio photos we'd taken a few years ago...time to update that one. My husband has also done some photo collages - one of each of our kids for our master bedroom, and then a combined one in our game room. And then our family room shelves are filled with pictures of family, as are the memory boards in our kitchen.
Love your displays, Ali! Thanks for the chance to win!
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Ali, thanks for sharing how you live with your photos. Up until now most of our pictures are in frame scatted through the house. I like how you included the mixture of framed and mounted photos in your collection. Oh I feel a weekend project coming soon!
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I have an IKEA wire hanging system in my craft room that I clothespin on rotating pictures and other ephemera....
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I have a photo wall, but started it on a too-small wall and now need to look at moving it.
Or..... after seeing this post - maybe just start another in another room! Bingo! I haven't been printing and hanging many in the last year due to lack of space and it's bothering me. I think the Easter break will be a good time to get that organized and implemented. Thanks for a great post!!
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We have a few around the house but I like the idea of enlarging the photos and hanging them throughout the home. Thank you for the inspiration!
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I had a photo wall in my family room at the old house, and now I have one along the upstairs hallway in our new house. I love them too! I also like to frame photo collages (simple, made with Picasa and then printed at Costco :-) and hang them around the house. I love the photo walls you've made - a great inspiration for our new house when we move. Hopefully this spring! :-)
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I love black & white photos with white mats and black frames. We have a collection of our sons black and whites Photos from his collage photography class. So beautiful and it is extra special because he developed the pictures himself.
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We are currently in the middle of a re-paint, re-carpet mess - but once everything is done all my photo collages will go back up. I like to display photographs that I've taken (of family or landscapes from trips we've taken) all over my house. I mix old photos from my grandparents, childhood pictures of me and my boyfriend and, of course, lots of recent pictures of all of us. I have at least one photo wall in every room.
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I really need to rethink my displays to more fully enjoy my photos. I love your displays and want to try some of your ideas
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I'm in the middle of making my first photo wall right now! Thanks for the inspiration!
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This is a lovely giveaway. When we moved into this house 5 years ago, I bought three frames with 5,3 and 5 openings. I was delighted to put them up- but haven't changed them since. However, I recently began living with our photos more as I moved my mini-books out into the lving and dining areas. They add a fabulous texture to the formal framed photos on my hutch, and another shelf, and I couldn't be more pleased at how much I get to share them. Everyone who comes over picks up at least one!
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I'm just beginning to learn what it means to "live with my photos" as they really have been resigned to scrapbooks and table tops. WHAT a lightbulb moment to see what you have done in your home. Thank you for continuing to share your life. After almost 20 years of working on scrapbooks, I'm thrilled to start a new journey. The visual tutorial was a turning point for me. Many thanks.
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Awesome giveaway!!! I really don't do much with photos in the home. I have a few in frames, but the apartment I live in doesn't look kindly on things on the walls. One day though :) Thanks for the chance to win!
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We have a photo wall right in our front entry way and I keep my albums in our living room so you can pick one up and look at it at any time!
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Nice wall displays. I need to get some of my framed items up on the wall! Would love to try out Color Inc. products. Thanks.
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