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 dont' live with my photos but I really want too. I jsut don't have the money to do so at this point. A free one would really help get me started!
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Wonderful! Thanks for sharing pics of your home - looks great! I have a skinny wall in my living room with 8x10 and 5x7's of my boys (professionally taken). I am ashamed to admit I haven't had any pictures taken of them in about 3 years. eek!
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Ali: I too love to be surrounded by family snapshots. I frame them, hang them, scrap them, share them, & mostly LOVE them. Love your post and your blog...so inspirational!!! Take care, Kim
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I agree with you ... love to have photos out and about in the house and up on the walls. My push now is to get away from all these little (5x7 and 8x10) sizes and get some BIG canvases up! So this would be lovely!!!
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Have been thinking about trying some of my photos mounted this way. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I live with my photos all over!!! :-) Thanks!
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My little family is currently staying with my husbands parents while we are in transition between houses. Even though I don't have an entire home to decorate, I just had to put some family pictures up in our guest room. I hung them with removeable strips so we don't leave holes in the walls, but the room just feels so much more like home now!
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I believe family pictures should be all around the house. Family pictures are what makes a house a home.
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I have photos displayed throughout my house, but I need to get some new ones printed and displayed (especially of my two younger girls). I used to be really good at going to a studio for pictures and then putting them up, but my youngest daughter was petrified of the studio, so we stopped. I take most of the photos myself now. I do have one grouping above my bed of all four girls, but I really should do more!
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Ali I love your inspiration. I have a photo wall in the works. It has a variety of frames (mostly black). I recently ordered a canvas print and truly love it. Thanks for the opportunity.
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My photos are in frames and mini albums in every cubby and shelf I can find in our home. This giveaway is wonderful! Thank you for the opportunity to win!
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I have various collections of family photos in frames on my entertainment center in my home. I've tried to stick with silver, filigree-like frames when I can, but sometimes it's hard to find nice looking ones. I want to put photos up on the walls. However, the wall I particularly want to put them on gets full sun for part of the year. So I have been waiting to invest in UV glass for some frames. But I love the colorinc wrapped frame. I have another place that would look really good in...with no sun!
I've had trouble adjusting to hanging photos on the walls since I've been an adult. Growing up, my dad didn't like us to hang photos because we'd have to put holes in his walls. So we had things in frames setting on end tables or mantles.
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I live with our photos also. Right now I need to update all the photos. In our downstairs hallway we have built in shelves and two of the 5 have picture frames on them.
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You mean the pictures shouldn't just stay on my camera and computer?!? :) I'm in the process of moving, so looking forward to making some photo walls in our new home!
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Wow. This reminds me more and more why we need to figure out how to hang photos on our walls {they are plaster and lath.} It also reminds me that we NEED some family photos!!
I like to make over-view minis for the year or for the seasons. That way I can pull out smaller albums for guests to look at. My big 12x12 albums are not company friendly! lol.
Love all this inspiration!!
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This is actually one of my personal goals for 2011 - get more photos "out there". It started with this:
http://prairietrails.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/we-interrupt-your-programming/
And I'm working on adding more, collecting random frames and even picking up a few collage frames from Michaels when I can get them on super sale. I love the look Color Inc has created with their gallery wraps. Thank you for the chance to win!
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What beautiful images! I wish we had more wall space in our home to hang collections of images. I have a few spots that I can. Thank you for this opportunity to win an image from ColorInc.
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We love to have photo walls & galleries around the house & picture frames too! We have not yet hung them up yet in our new home...can't wait to do that!
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sadly, i don't have many framed pictures in my house--and i don't know why. i have taken some amazing pictures and want to hang them up, but then i never follow through with it. you have inspired me to get them on the wall!
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I'm afraid to admit that I don't have nearly enough on my walls. You have definitely inspired me!
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I love all the photos! But I have to say my favorite special touch is the "4" and the "E" that you have mounted with the photos. So cool!
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Photos of family definitely make a house feel like a home, in my opinion. I come from a long line of women who prominently display cherished family photos and would love to win the wrapped canvas - looks so nice!
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I don't think there is a room in our house that doesn't have at least one photo displayed in it. On the walls, in frames on book shelfs, they're everywhere. I love having our photos all around us.
Also wanted to share some feedback about Color Inc. After some frustrations with my previous pro lab, I recently gave Color Inc and another "new to me" lab a try. Just got my first print order back from Color Inc. and so far, so good. I was very pleased with their quick turn around, quality and care in packaging my prints. Color rendition on their Fuji photographic paper is a bit more yellow than the Kodak lab I had been using, but propably more true to life color. So far, I am very pleased with Color Inc. and can't wait to try some of their other products like their gallery wraps and standouts.
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What a great give-away! I am much like you... trying to photosize my house... with as many photos as I can. I love seeing them and looking back at our past!
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I'm slowly starting to get pictures framed and on the walls. I have several small photo books that hold more recent pictures. I have alot of pictures to sort thru and organize! LOL
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
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