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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Most of my photos are framed and set on little tables, counters, etc. My boyfriend that I live with is neurotic about holes in the walls and won't let me mount anything! I should try those tabs...
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one of the items that line my walls is inspired by you. i found a letterpress drawer online and created one for my husband and i, full of photos of us together, us as children and before we met. i really love looking at it. it takes me back to fun memories.
i recently spent some time with family and they brought an album of their recent trip to hawaii. it made me wish i was better at printing my photos. flipping through the pages was so much more fulfillin than clicking my mouse. i have thousands of photos and starting a project to print them has been overwhelming, but i hope to start doing that from now on and slowly working on my archives.
this was a great post, so many ideas!
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I have a few photos in frames which are placed (sparingly) on a few tables through out the house. After living 11 years in my house, I decided it's time to put some pictures up on the wall !
Thank you for the inspiration ;)
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I have photos in frames, scrapbooks and boxes, but I haven't enlarged any to hang on the walls. I hope to put together a collage so that I can enjoy them everyday. Thanks!
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I've framed photos and have them around the house on walls, tables, the fireplace - wherever there's room.
Color Inc. does great work and they are so quick!
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Lately I've been using ColorInc. to get some large prints made for our new house. They are only about an hour's drive from where I live here in Michigan but I first heard about them here on this site! Thanks for the chance to win!!
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Beautiful! Would love to enter the contest!
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We have a photo wall in our hallway to the bedrooms and there are a few clusters of small photo frames throughout the house, but since we've gone digital, most of our images are trapped on the hard drive waiting to be printed for scrapbooks & photo frames.
Need to spend time to print & order more often. So many more images with the SLR but need to make time to print them so they can be enjoyed! Thank you for the inspiration and chance to win! Would love to win one of the photo canvases!
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I just put up a photo display in my daughters room. She loves to look at her family.
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My photos live on my computer and I visit regularly! ;D
My new passion is photography, and I've printed very few of my photos, and when I have, they've been for somebody else. I'm now inspired to go check out Color Inc. Your photos look great on your walls. I'm not sure what's taken me so long to realize that I need to do this! Thanks, Ali!
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Oh, I get so inspired by your blog Ali, I am currently scanning in 18 years of photos for my son's graduation party...I'll get a book together for him by June and would love to also frame some of these treasures that I am finding in my "pre-digital" boxes of photos. I'd love to make a framed gallery wrapped canvas out of one of these old shots! Thanks for the chance to win one!
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Love the canvas photos. I have photos everywhere in my home, but especially on all our bookcases and on the piano. I have a canvas print in my room of my kids when they were little and it makes me so happy to wake up each day and look at it!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE your collections! I am also thankful for the beautiful idea! We just had our first child and I can't wait to start collections on his nursery wall, our bedroom, and in the hall! Right now I just have the standard frames around with random pictures.
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Last year for my daughter's first birthday, I had 4 favorite 8x1O photos of her printed, 1 from each season. I put them in frames and spelled out the seasons with chipboard letters across the front. I used them to decorate the food table at her party with a sign that said "What a difference a year makes." Afterwards I hung them on the wall. I plan to make a tradition of it.
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I have several photo collections in different rooms of my house. Love Color Inc idea and think it would compliment what I have started! Thanks!
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I have photos at home in frames on walls and on a little stand in my office at work.....and lots lying here and there waiting for a home.
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I love that you have a 20x30 on your wall. I've been trying to explain to wedding clients lately that an 8x10 or 11x14 is not as big as you can go!
We just did a series of four 18x24 prints on a large wall in our family room. It was an expense, but it makes me so happy to see every day.
We also have collections of smaller framed prints around the house that will be easier and more cost effective to switch out over the years.
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I'm just starting to move towards living with my photos. I've long struggled with perfectionism. I've avoided choosing pictures because I didn't have an overall plan, but seeing your collection helps me to see how this can be a far more organic process than I've imagined. I'm inspired now - thanks for sharing!
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I put my pics mostly in albums and on my walls. I love Collage prints and the corresponding frames.
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I have 3 photo walls in our house currently and am getting ready to start one in our upstairs hallway as soon as we put a final coat of paint on the walls! I love photo walls and like to include subway art and quotes in the mix! The upstairs hallway will mix old photos and current ones of loved ones not living in our 'family of 5' house, i.e. grandparents, aunts, uncles, great grandparents, etc. Great giveaway! Happy weekend!
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