Around The Room | Living With Your Photos + Color Inc Giveaway

We only have one photo wall at the moment. It lives in the hall. We have several of my husbands photos hanging, unframed, from an Ikea rail with clips, so we can swap them out for different ones anytime we want.

Like you, I love to be surrounded by photos. I live in an old house with plaster walls and have decided to lots of groupings of frames that are not on the walls. I love this because I can easily rotate my photos from room to room. I also tend to include lots of old photos of my parents and grandparents and great grandparents. I love that my 5 year old knows all about family members that he never had a chance to meet and part of this is through all of these old photos.

I love Photos "living" on our walls. It is a great way to what is really important in our lives. I have a wall project I am working on for my Dad right now! He is going to love it!! It will be collection of all 5 of his grandchildren and all 3 children with spouses.

Love the walls! In my last place, I had a wall of photos, since we have bought our house, I have yet to find my groove. But my husband did just build me a custom bookshelf in a little nook, and I plan on filling that up with framed photos...different sizes and colors. I also just won a silent auction item at my son's school fundraiser for a wrapped canvas standout, and after looking at your walls...I think I may be hooked! haha! Thanks for the motivation to hang my photos. I completely agree that they should live all around us and not just in books :)

I hired a decorator when we build our house just to help me arrange and select a few pieces for our family room. I was on a TIGHT budget but she was reasonable and I didn't want to purchase furniture only to find out it didn't fit the room. She gave me suggestions for decorating our walls and when I mentioned I wanted a wall of family photos she wasn't encouraging. Boy am I glad I didn't listen to her. Slowly my photo wall is growing and it's the first thing people comment on when they walk into our family room. I love the framed canvas and will definitely have to visit their site to check out all their products. Thanks for sharing Ali!

I have my photos on the walls, but also in home decor projects and of course, in my scrapbooks. Thanks!!

I love all of the photo spreads you've shared. We just moved into our house a few months ago, and I have plans to do a few walls like this. So far, I've done one (in our main eating area), and we all love it.

My husband and I just bought a house and we are ready to fill it with pictures -- a wrapped canvas would do just the trick!

I have a photo wall with all different sizes of photos and colors of frames.

We are mostly living with our photos on my iPhone camera roll, at one stage I had over 1000 photos & me & the kids would sift through them enjoying the memories.

We only have one family photo on the wall. Despite lots of attempts to get more up it just never seems to happen. I get bogged down in which photos to select to put up and just never get any up. I love your collections around the house! I think I just need to dive in and accept that there is no "perfect".

I have photos of the kiddos on the walls. School pictures and for the little girl her photos taken at a studio. I need to print out larger ones to hang on the walls. More candid photos. I have a basket in my kitchen that has random photos in it from the past. We love to look through them and reminisce. Thanks for this post. Now I know what to put on my walls! :-)

Right now, we are only getting to live with a few of our photos as our house is on the market. But I have big plans for our next house and one of these canvases would be PERFECT!! I can't wait to get a picture of the four of us + the dog standing in front of our new house while it is being framed. I think it would make a great enlargement :)

I love photos as well and am in the process of building a new photo wall in my living room.

I love seeing pictures of your family photos in your home. I do the same thing. I think we only have four pictures in our entire house that is not a photo or portrait of our family or family member. I have canvasses, large prints framed, and in the boys room there are photo collages of their sports activities. I also have a few of my scrapbooks in a bookshelf in the living room for us and any guests to enjoy.

Thanks for this! Your galleries look great.

Living in a house with four floors and a lot of stairs, we have galleries hanging in each stairwell landing. One is visible from our living room.

I've also turned one wall of my office at work into a gallery of travel photos. Always sparks conversion with visitors.

I have two vertical 3 slot plate holder thingies in my entry. This winter we had an incredible snow on Christmas Eve and I tromped around the yard on Christmas taking photos. I decided to print them and placed them in matted frames - and I placed them in the plate holders. Now that it is Spring, I have replaced the snow scenes with photos of tulips, cherry blossoms, dogwood bloom, and bradford pear trees in full bloom. I plan to switch out the photos depending on the season. I can also use this gallery to display family photos!
I also have a guest room that I call the Grandma's Room (named this before *I* was a grandmother. Here I have bookcase with lots of photos (and a few books) of our family.
Thanks for sharing your ideas and resources. I use FotoFusion for digital scrapbooking and didn't know that I could get 12 x 12 prints ;-)

I have some acrylic frames that hold 12x12 layouts. The pages are day to slip in and out, so I change often. So far this is all I've managed to get up on the wall, but I'm working on it.

I love to use pictures as wall art as well. I have a few different groupings and recently purchased a wrapped canvas that sits on an easel in one of our bay windows. Love It!

Awesome giveaway! I have a huge wall that would be the perfect place for a mass of photos. I am just so worried about messing it up.