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 ENTERED into 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.
I have several areas in our house where I have photos displayed-hallways and bedrooms. I love the mix of canvases with frames you have shown-and am feeling motivated to start doing some more throughout the house! Thanks for the inspiration!!
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Ooooh; I can't wait to read everyone else's ideas! Here are mine: We, too, have a photo wall but DH was so "OCD" with it that it took THREE HOURS to put up 16 photos AFTER I'D ALREADY TRACED THEM ONTO BUTCHER PAPER AND "PLACED" THEM ON THE WALL in their appropriate spots. Yes; all that he had to do was HANG THEM. OY!!! So - other than that I have framed photos in our china cabinet, a small (about 8"x8") basket that holds loose photos and trinkets that belonged to my beloved grandparents (read: easy access to memories). I also keep a constantly revolving supply of 4x6 photos (unframed) on my dresser in the bedroom. There are 2 or 3 special photos that always stay there, but the rest move off and make room for new ones periodically. For family (near & far) I used to assemble a monthly "best of" set of photos on Shutterfly and share the albums with them each month, but now with Facebook I can just share throughout the month. Of course, I always keep a few special photos held back to use for collages/birthday/Christmas/Mother's Day/Father's Day gifts throughout the year.
Thanks for sharing your family photos, your home and your family with us, Ali. :-)
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I have some scrapbooks, but they don't get looked at very often (sad). Everything else is framed, so I would like to try something new like the canvas ones. I just did a photo wall in our family room and I am really enjoying that. I love how the grandkids point and say everyone's name. They like to find the pictures of themselves. Thanks for the chance to win this!
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I love all the groupings you have and the ones on their website. We used to have a couple of these going in our house...until my husband painted the living room, oh? About 7 years ago! They have not been rehung! Or replaced with new ones...this would be a great jumpstart for this project for me. Thanks for the chance!
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I am working on incorporating more pictures in our house (we moved here a year ago) and you've given me a lot of inspiration. Thanks!
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I have been wanting to get photos off the furniture and onto the wall. I have nail panic so glad to see your review of the temp. mounts AND the inspiration for wall collections.
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I received a DSLR for XMas and am now ordering 8X10 prints for frames on our living room photo wall. I would love to have a canvas print to add to the collection! Your walls look gorgeous. :)
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i love living with our photos.... one major problem is deciding where to put them! we keep getting more pictures, but we aren't getting more wall space. i think it's time for an update though on some of the pictures-most of the pictures are almost 20 years old!
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We're renting, so no photos on the wall, but I do have lots in frames on shelves. We're building soon, so I can't wait to be able to use my walls!
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I'm in the process of building a house (woo hoo!), and I'll be moving in this summer. My new walls will just be BEGGING for photos!
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That framed canvas looks great. What a great idea. Right now, we live with our photos on a couple of digital frames in the living room, and two collections of family prints on the living room walls. Most of the rest of the stuff in the house is 'art' but I'm hoping to change over to photos soon.
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Would love to try a new photo lab. Thanks for sharing. I keep saying I am going to make prints and hang them on my wall, so I hope I win so I can begin my collection. Pictures in my computer add no value!!
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the same old boring way...4x6 in frames. i love all these different shapes and sizes...inspirational!
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I created a photo wall above our entertainment center using clip frames... all black & white photos. We love it, and everyone comments on it when they come over. Now I have to accomplish this elsewhere! Love all your recommendations....
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Love this. Thanks for the inspiration to take beautiful photos of our family and display them.
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Right now we have mostly travel/vacation photos up throughout the house. Hopefully soon I'll get photos of our kids up too. These have been in the computer since they were born (2003 and 2008)!
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I frame a lot of our pictures and place around the house on different furniture pieces. I would love to start hanging them on the walls. Yours look fantastic!
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We live with photos all thru the house also ut mine are in traditional wood frames. I love the Color Inc standout outs. I would love to win one!
We have photos in our hall of the children plus oth sets of grandparents ad some neices too. I have tons of frames in our edroom on the dresser and on the walls. We are in the process of redoing the living area and it will have photos too.
Thank you for showing us your photo areas. I love to see how you have them arranged.
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I love galleries! We had the pleasure of getting beautiful family pictures taken in Germany. After our move I made it a priority to display these wonderful pictures in a gallery. Something I never did in the past, and the end result us phenomenal. It always grabs everyone's attention. I'd love to try another gallery incorporating canvases. Thanks for posting more ideas and variations for galleries!
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Como me encantaria tener uno así de mi hijo! Gracias por la oportunidad :)
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i love having photos up around the house being surrounded by happy moments captured on film! i would love to try out color inc for some new photos in our house. thanks ali!
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i don't hang up nearly as many photos as i would like - perhaps i should try a little harder. . .
hillary
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I'm famous for having empty frames hanging and not getting my photos on the wall for anyone to see. Love the look of your walls and think it is time to get things on my walls...I've been in this house for over 7 years so I think it's time!
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I have a couple of small collections...I have used the Pottery Barn frames that hang from a silver bar & those collections are in our kitchen/dining area. I also have a framed collection of photos/memorabilia on a trip we took with the kids. I wish I could do more...I love the look of wrapped canvas & plan to do some of that with recent family photos taken...thanks for the chance to win!
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I have a large photo wall at the top of our stairs that is also visible from the entryway plus a few others throughout the house. I love the canvas mounted prints and I've been looking for something fun for my son's room--perfect idea! Thanks!
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