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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Thanks for the inspiration Ali. I've been collecting different sized frames and thinking about getting photos on the wall for a little too long! Now that I've seen some examples, I'm ready to get those photos up!
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I display photos on the wall on ledges that I made myself. It was easy: I painted several lengths of standard chair rail to match our living room wall and mounted them with L-brackets to create small but long ledges. I put 10 - 12 framed 8x10 photos and trinkets from our vacations in the US and overseas on the ledges. I pick a destination and display photos from that trip, then rotate them out with photos/trinkets from another trip when I want to refresh the wall. This way, I don't have to fool with hanging the photos and can add texture and dimension to the collage with trinkets and memorbilia as well.
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I would love to win! I need to display more photos!
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i have enough photos...but not enough wall space it seems! would like to start a new collection though.
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I've just recently gotten more photos out of my computer and onto the walls...and have another set of frames waiting for photos. Having just gone through a reno i've been waiting until everything gets re-arranged and in it's new place - and that happens this week. Thanks for the inspiration to carry it through. Those gallery wraps look wonderful!
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I have numerous photos in frames throughout the house as well as on the walls! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
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Thanks for the inspiration! I used to complete a Photo collage each year, but project Life has replaced that. I have combinations of canvas and metallic prints as well as framed favorites.
Megan
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A few shelves that I lean the frames on, so I can keep changing photos, plus one wall floor to ceiling cork board where we put photos and inspiration....Thanks!
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I too live with photo collections mounted on the walls in different areas of my house. And the similar matching black frames but of differing sizes is my favourite. Thanks for the chance to win! Cheers,
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I have many, many photos but for now they are in frames on top of desks, on bookshelves or in scrapbooks and albums. Since we rent we haven't gone crazy with hanging prints on the walls. I do have some collages of my girls hanging up and they are my most favorite photos.
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I have a few 8x10 favorites framed and in our bedrooms. But I definitely need to do more. I'm thinking a photo wall. Also, I'd like to try a gallery-type collection up the staircase.
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Thanks for the ideas.
We're renovating room by room and my plan for the dining room is a cluster of favourite photos. I also found our initials and an ampersand which I intend to include.
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We have photos in frames around our house. I hope to do a photo wall soon. Just need to re-paint the rooms first.
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I have a photo wall in our bedroom made up of different black frames I've collected over the years. The single color unifies the grouping together even though they are all different styles and sizes. I also now have three canvas prints (from Shutterfly and Canvas on Demand). I love canvas prints and now I want to try out the new style from Color Inc.! Thanks for sharing!
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I have a family history wall with current family and ancestors. I really like the framed canvas photos.
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I love your collections! We typically group our travel photos in similar ways. Each year we do a major road trip so each wall of the house has a collection of photos and sometimes items that we collected on that trip. For example the wall with our Spain/Portugal photos also has the sword and helmet that we bought while we were there. My husband is a woodworker so he's always able to make a cool shelf or frame for whatever we need. While we were at a copper mine in Michigan we bought some rock samples with veins of copper. He created a frame and with his router he inset the rock samples so those are hanging on the wall too. He's so handy!! :-)
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In a small house with very little open wall space this can be hard to do, but what we have done is chosen to have a rotating picture wall where our latest and greatest" get hung in frames.
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I prefer family photos to any other kind of art you can buy. I love walking around and catching a glimpse of one that causes me to remember the good times. That means so much more now that my kids are getting older.
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I have photos everywhere,but my favorite is a little wall with a series of my boys that I have taken over the years in a park in town{same park ,same spot} , they are years apart no rhyme or reason to the years,but it shows their growth ,and it makes me smile every time.
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Thank you Ali for sharing your photos around your home. A house to me isn't a home until the walls are filled with our photos, our memories. Every wall in my house has a photo of someone whether it is a relative who has passed, or our newest addition our baby girl. I would love though to create a whole wall of memories. A talking point! Everyone LOVES to look at the photos so put them up everywhere I say! (Yes even in the toilet! LOL)
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