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 some framed photos around the house but would love to do a collage like the ones that you have on your walls. They are beautiful! I am working through Project Life as a way of documenting and taking more photos this year as well. For our vacations, we create digital books in order to capture all of our photos and journaling without the time it takes to create a traditional scrapbook (though I enjoy that medium as well when I have the time).
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My favorite photo art in our house is a collage of 2x2 squares that hangs in our kitchen. It shows close ups of many of the places we've visited.
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Love the inspiration of your gallery walls. I have read and heard that a photo grouping should have the same color and style of frames but now I see that I do not have to do that. Need to get busy and take those photos from the frames sitting on furniture to the walls. Again, Ali thank you for the inspiration.
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Screensavers on two computers are filled with trip photos as well as enlargements here and there. Thanks for the glimpse into your home and how you have used these precious pictures.
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I'm actually really bad at 'living' with our photos! I struggle with getting them to the walls or framed on tables. They do get scrapbooked though! My husband and I were just talking about needing to hang more photos.
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I love it and would be so happy if I won! My photos mean everything to me...represents our life and what is important to our family. Thanks for sharing Ali!
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I've always been very pleased with everything I've ordered from Color Inc. I'd love to win this giveaway so I can get a picture of our new baby for our home!
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I have photos of my loved ones throughout the house. I stop and smile at them numerous times a day and they bring me such joy. I've been wanting to make a gallery wall on the wall going up our stairwell. Your beautiful photos are inspiring me!
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I'm working on building a photo wall up our stairwell, this would be a great addition. Thanks for the chance!
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Ali -
Love your walls. Very inspirational. I always look forward to seeing your creative touches. Thank you sooooo much for allowing us into your lives. It is wonderful seeing a working mom who is enjoying every aspect of her life. Thanks
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Photos everywhere throughout a house are what make it a home.
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Right now, the only way we're living with our photos is by keeping albums out and accessible to those that want to sit and peruse them. Living in a temporary/rented space doesn't leave a lot of ability to hang things on the wall, but we can cover the fridge with our favorite snapshots and leave photo albums lying around. We also make our screen saver on the computer flash various favorite photos.
We do what we can with what we have and it works. :-) But eventually, one day..... we'll hang some awesome memories on the walls of our own home, and in the meantime I'll just dream up some creative ways of doing it!!
Thanks Ali for inspiring me!
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Love the arrangements you have done. I take thousands of pictures and only have one of them displayed. Would love to try Color Inc. Thanks!
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I have not mounted photos on my walls because of a fear that they won't look good there, or I'll change my mind & be left with a nail hole. I am definitely going to look into the Color, Inc. mounted photos with the Miller Studio removable mounting tabs. Thanks so much for your tips featuring specific products.
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I love living with my pictures. I have collections in just about every room. I've come to enjoy them more than any of the other art we have! My current project is getting a collection of old family (as in generations back) black and whites up in my livingroom.
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I love decorating with photos, and scrapbooking them, too! What a fun giveaway!
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I have never used Color Inc...Will have to go and check them out. I have family pictures on the walls finally!! I love how they bring in color and bring back memories! Thanks for the chance to win!!
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I was just staring at one of the photo displays in my house yesterday and wondering how I might spruce it up...so thanks for the ideas! I always want to include the kids' artwork on the walls, since that is as much of a captured moment as a photograph.
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I too love to live surrounded by pictures of my loved ones! We have a gallery on our living room wall, which I totally adore. Thanks for such an awesome giveaway!
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We had several walls of photos grouped by themes. We recently painted and took photos down but haven't put them back up yet. I am intrigued by the canvas wrapped photos.
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we have some photos around the house but not as many as I would like. I need to get better about framing my photos and getting them enlarged. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
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Love all your walls. Looks great. I also love to live with my pictures in frames, on walls, in scrapbooks. I even modge podged a few on tiles and they are used in my kitchen. Hoping to do a new photo wall soon
and your ideas are great inspiration.
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simple, yet elegant and totally cool. Love them and the gallery wrapped canvas shots. Thanks for the tour!!
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This is great inspiration for me to get busy getting my photos on the wall! Unfortunately most of my photos are on my computer. I have a few on our walls, but not enough.
Your collections are beautiful, and it's always helpful to see how someone else has done it. Thank you for sharing.
I'm curious...how often do you update the photos you have hanging on the walls, if ever? I kind of get tired of seeing the same photos year after year in my house. I'm just wondering how you keep it fresh.
~Jen
~Jen
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I have a small grouping of our wedding photos in our living room. And ever since you introduced the color inc canvases I've gone a little canvas crazy. But I have to say that the color inc canvas prints are the best in quality. I have 3 canvas prints propped up, 2 on our mantle and 1 just hanging out, looking for a permanent place.
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