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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This looks beautiful. I will have to check out their website.
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I have seen that framing technique at galleries before, and really liked it. It gave a contemporary look to paintings.
In our house we have photos hung with art and objects. I love the look of groupings. Thanks!
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I live in an apartment and my significant other doesn't want me making holes in all of the walls (he knows me too well, there would be holes everywhere!), so I have photos in frames on all of my shelves throughout my home. I couldn't live without the photos of special people in my life smiling back at me every day!
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I live with my photos all around me. I just bought new Pottery Barn shelves to put them all on. WOO HOO
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I have a lot in storage boxes, and on the computer. But I just recently had 2 20x24 canvas' made that I are waiting to be hung.
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Love your photo wall collections. I have a wall of pics of me/DH, parents, grands, etc. with a sign that reads "All Because Two People Fell in Love" and in my office I have some of my beach and landscape pics in frames and canvas wraps. Would love to add one of these framed canvas pieces to my collection :-) Thanks!
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I do a little bit of everything, I love my canvas print that I have placed on an easel.Kathy
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I love love love having photos all over the house. I have them everywhere, it's so good for the kids to see their pics, to know how loved they are, to remember the good and fun times and the everyday moments too.
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I have just started putting some up, in decorated/scrapped 7gypsies wood frame boxes. I need to venture out and try something new.
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I have a few frames around the house that I swap photos out in every so often, but I really need to put more up. It's so hard for me to commit to which photos I want up and then I end up with none. Bummer!
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I have one giant wrapped canvas that I LOVE...I'd love to add more to the life we live here...
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1st of all I just want to say I LOVE how you've displayed your pictures! I especially love the mixed frames in your dining area! Love the framed wrapped canvas! Who wouldn't want to win one! Thanks for the opertunity! :)
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My photo wall runs up my staircase displaying family vacations. I'm a few years behind though - thanks for the inspiration!
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I have a metallic chalkboard in our kitchen with a bunch of photos--all the photos/artwork which used to be on the fridge before we got the stainless one. Would love to do a wall like this:)
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I ordered our first wrap around canvas prints from Costco for Christmas presents and love them. But I REALLY like the Gallery Wrapped Canvas Frame you showed. I definitely would love to order a print with the frame around it. I also display photos around the house on those wired photo holders that have multiple "wired fingers" sticking up. I also use the old metal flower frogs to hold my photos.
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I had that ah-ha moment a few years back, that the photos were way cooler than the art hanging on the walls, so up some of it went!!!! :) Thanks for the chance!
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I agree that pictures should be out where everyone can interact with them. I want a way to changeout the pictures from time to time. As the mother of two sons who are 28 and 26 (years, not months) I have years of photos and more stories piling up every day. I want the stories with the photos displayed as well. I am living the dash and am actively scrapping the dash through this life. Finding the right mix of pictures that will not embarrass everyone but still illustrate our happy lives is the challenge. I love to be surrounded by pictures and I also love the stories of our life.
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I have a Grandkids wall. I enlarge a black and white photo of each one every year.
I also have a collage frame with baby photos of our 5 kids, us and our 5 grandkids.
I love showing off our grandkids, so there are pictures of them here and there throughout the house.
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I have purchased frames but they are still in a bag in the closet, maybe Spring cleaning and things off the wall will inspire me to get them up on the walls. For now though my refrigerator is the current gathering place for all the cute pictures of our gang (4 pups) that make me smile everytime I see them. Great giveaway. :)
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Love how you use family photos to decorate your home. I've just started doing that myself, but frames are so expensive (since I originally wanted all of mine to match, but vary in size). After viewing your collage collections I'm REALLY liking that and believe it would look just as awesome (of course with my own photos) in my house. Thanks for the inspiration! Also, thanks to Color Inc for the giveaway!
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