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 love living with my photos! all over the firdge & walls I have one favorite collection that I hung right after the hubs & I got married. It hangs in the hallway leading to our bedroom & had family photos & pictures of our parent s& grandparents at different ages & then leads into the collage of our wedding as you go down the hall. We've been married 4 years now & I really should add some newer photos to the walls. Especially since my photography has changed so much since I've started scrapbooking!
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Ali, I love your photo dis
plays! I have many in my home as well. My favorite is my stair wall filled with Black and whites of my family.
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I am embarrassed to say that I have but one photo hanging on all of our walls...moved in last summer and I am stuck...not knowing what to put where and afraid of making a mistake but after seeing your mounting squares I may get braver knowing I won't have a bunch of holes in my walls. Thanks for the chance to win and the inspiration from your walls:)
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right now a lot of the photos i love are living in my portable hard drive waiting to go to the printers. but first i'm trying to figure out how i want to display all of my favorite images. this post was a huge help in how i want to create a wall collage. thank you so much for sharing Ali.
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I love the framed canvas print!
You've inspired me to make a concentrated effort to get our photos printed and hung. Most of our photos live on my computer unprinted (sad, I know). We do now have a few on a bookshelf in our living area, and I've started a framed set in our office. Finding the time to sort and edit photos is the challenge for me. My plan is to begin to include it in my daily routine so it's not quite the daunting task!
Thanks for the chance to win!
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I live with my photos too! But not enough as I'd like. I am very impressed with Color Inc and its products and quality and I've wanted to get a collection like you have in your hallway. Love.
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We have 1 photo wall in our living room, but I'm planning on also building one in the guest room and our bedroom.
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I would LOVE to win. I need to get more photos on our walls and off of the computer. Yours are definatly an insiration. I have seen a couple very inspiring photo walls on Martha Stewart.com. Thinking about trying one in our living room. Thanks for the chance to win.
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I'm trying to live more and more with our pictures. Sometimes I just get overwhelmed with the amount of pictures I have on my hard drive and I just freeze (and then keep adding more)! I need to learn to hit the delete button!
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I've been working on incorporating more photos around our house. My favorite collection is 3 6x6 frames I put in a plate holder in our kitchen.
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I love the photo walls you have in your house. I would love to recreate something like this in my house.
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I've been working on our photo wall for years but its still very sparse. In the our hallway I put 8 inch painted craft letters spelling our last name to act as the base for my wall, letters have been there over 2 years and I just recently added a few frames around it. I need more!
I love your photo collections. Now I'm trying to figure out which walls I can cover with similar collections next.
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We have a big collage of photos in the entryway that we rotate out with new photos.
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I love the look of all the photos on your walls. I'm just starting to build my collection, as our family is still fairly new. We do have personal photos in every room though.
One of my very favorite walls is one I put up when I started getting my scrap space set up. I bought a whole sheet of furnace metal (about 3'x8') and screwed it directly onto the wall. I decorated some simple magnet clips from Staples, from which I hang all my recent LOs. It fits 14 LOs. I like that I can enjoy my LOs for some time before they go into albums.
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those frames are awesome and easy to install and I have justthe right pictures for them. THANKS!
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We don't have kids, so our travel photos line our walls. I love reliving those memories as I walk through our home. We went to Paris and Germany last summer and haven't yet printed/hung any of those photos, so would love to win this! Thanks!
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We have a wall in the hallway that has all of our family photos. we just finished remodeling the living room and need to add a few photos there. Love your collection. Thanks!!
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I love having family photos on tables and the walls...Thanks for the chance to win.
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Hi Ali, I love you photos all over. About a month ago I decided to move the diferent photo galleries I have spread out troughout the house and into one single massive focal point at the large wall on the stair landing, it is a huge really tall wall so the process is still ongoing, a lot of measuring and selection is involved but when it is done it will be the very first thing you see from the front door when you walk in, it is actually the first thing you see from the window right next to the door. This canvas on a frame would be a great adition to this eclectinc collection of photos!
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I have framed photo's hung throughout the house, but I love how you have grouped yours using both the framed and mounted images. I love the look of the framed Gallery Wrapped Canvas. You continually inspire me!
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