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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After four years (yes, four years) of living in my house with naked walls, I finally got the courage to have two photographs of my children wrapped on a large canvas for our living room. I am thrilled about them and am now addicted - I want more! Also, I leave some of the smaller scrapbooks out so visitors can glance through and see photos of our family together.
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wow, your walls are breathtaking! I am just now really beginning to try to style my home into our own tastes- being a bit classy and a bit fun. These are just great mediums for framing, will def have to try!
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We have a line of photos straight across our dining room wall very much like your first collection here. We love it.
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We have prints of our favorite vacation photos in our dining room - I've tried to arrange them artfully, but I think I need a few more to make it work!
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Currently we are not living with our photos. I was just saying to my husband yesterday that it's time to get some pictures up in this house on the walls and in frames. Right now we only have one wedding picture on the wall and our one year old isn't getting any younger. Thanks for introducing us to such a great product and for the chance to win.
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I LOVE Color Inc. and honestly try to share my photos in canvas form as much as possible - it just tends to be quite spendy! Would love a chance to save a little $ by winning! :) I have a huge area that I would love to fill with a line of canvases like you did, but I Am also sorta waiting for Baby #2 to be born in July. :) Thanks!
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Most of my photos are on bookcases or in our family room on the TV. What a wonderful give away...hope that I win!
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I would love a canvas wrap. Thank you for sharing all of your decorating with photo ideas. I hope to start printing more soon.
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Ali - your photo wall collection is beautiful! I've always been a "use all the same frames" type of gal but seeing how colorful and different yours is just makes me smile! I need to be better about hanging pictures on our walls. The way we live with photos is currently with scrapbooks, photo albums and framed pictures. Don't have a lot of wall pictures but I am inspired to get one done :)
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I love the idea of living with my photos! I haven't been great at this, but after seeing all of these I have BIG ideas.
Right now my best example of this is my 7gypsies photo carousel. I put my favorite "snapshots" on this. My kids and my family love spinning it around and looking for new photos. They aren't organized in any specific way...just printed out and stuck up on the spinner!
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I love seeing your walls and how you have used your photos to tell your story. I've been struggling to organize my story on my walls and love the inspiration that you provide! Thank you!!!!
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I am still in the process of decorating our walls. I love all your ideas!
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You make me want to redecorate and repaint my walls so I can do the same thing! AWESOME!!! Fingers crossed... :)
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We have, and I'm not kidding, 4 pictures in frames and that's it. It's sad and I need to get more pictures printed and up on our walls. Now, I need to just suck it up and get it done. :)
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love your collections- I'm interested in creating a photo wall- thanks for the inspiration! :)
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I love that most, if not all, the photos you displayed are candids, not posed family portraits. I would LOVE to try Color Inc.'s products.
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I am the WORST! I love photographs, but I have not hang them all as of jet. I have some from my daughters that I simply love, because they reflect each personality SOO well. but i hadn't found just the perfect frames until this post of yours.. love the way you have a collage of photos with the white frames, and now these new .. love them!!!
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What a fun way to arrange photos! I think I really like the new spin you have on "Photos You Love". I really love the look that the canvas wrapping gives a photo. I would have never even dreamed of something like that. It has givien me something to think about as a walk through my house, I have wanted a good excuse to update photos and frames Thanks for sharing.
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We've been in our new house for 3 years now and I've only put together two photo walls. I tend to leave frames leaning against a wall for a long time before I actually hang it.
But after visiting a friend who moved at the same time and has photos and kids art everywhere and seeing your photo walls, Im inspired to get it done! Tired of an impersonal house.
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i especially love the collection of white frames :). one day i will also have our own wall of photos!
thanks for the chance to win!
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