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 love having pictures on our walls too. It is difficult to know how to put it together sometimes. I love your examples and ideas!
Willemijn
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I only have a couple of places in my house with pictures set out. I would love to win this photo and get started on a wall of pictures. Thank you.
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My daughter has a cork board in the playroom that we put various pictures on. I have all of my ProjectLife2010 pictures as my screensaver, my daughter LOVES sitting and telling me all of the things we did. I also have a few of our pictures mixed together with Disney litographs/artwork in the bedroom.
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the only "art" i have hanging up is pictures, mostly of our kids. i just tried the frameless look, except i just trimmed my pcts to size and taped them up to make a gallery wall. these mounted pictures would look much better. thanks for the chance to win. LOVE seeing all your picts and what you've done.
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Just the inspiration I needed. I love the combination of framed and mounted pictures.
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I keep albums in the family room for my kids and guests to look through.
Thanks for all you do! :)
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That is wonderful. I've started building a photo wall. I want to build 2. One for my office and one in the living room. One will be black frames and mounted. The other a vintage collection of frames for Goodwill. Right now I've got frames and we're deciding on which photos where. I do love the idea of a photo wall in the bedroom.
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We have photos all throughout our house, but my current fave is displaying the scrapbook pages my 10 year old daughter is making. I have an empty frame on one wall with wire running through the middle and we clothespin her layouts in. We rotate them as she makes new pages, and it helps her show off her art!
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I love have photo walls. I have a great one in our family room I love how my three year old will look at it, recognize items and talk about it. What a great giveaway.
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I don't have any photo walls because I am too intimidated by putting one up. Would love to have a reason to start, though.
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Love your inspiration...the wall of canvases is just so cool. We have the digital photo frame for most of our recent photos with a few framed scattered through out but I just LOVE how many you have on each wall.
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those look lovely!
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One of my favorite displays in my home is in my kitchen above my doorwall. Every season I change the pictures of the 5 frames to go along with the season were in. Ready now to take down my Winter scenes and get some sign of Spring going!
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Great ideas! I have been thinking of ways to put pics up on our bedroom walls.
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I take a lot of photos and now I am inspired to make a photo wall in my living room. I have just the right wall and I will check out ColorInc.--may use it in the future. Thanks for the chance to win one from them.
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I have been wanting to add more photos to my walls.
Right now, my photos are still in my computer....so sad.
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I love photo walls and have one in the master bedroom and our living room. We are currently in the process of moving to a new house, and I plan to make an entire wall of the dining room a photo wall. Great giveaway!
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I am constantly taking photos of our family. We have several photo walls and many frames around the house. This is a wonderful giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win.
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We have clusters of photos, too. We pick 7-8 per year and hang them in groupings. you can wander around our house and watch the kids grow up through photos. I like the standout mounts. Do you know if you can have a single photo or something other than the clusters produced? I'd love to have any of the special mounts - what fun!
Thanks!
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I just love looking at all of your pictures.
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I have a collection of framed photos on our bedroom dresser {some on mini easels} and displays on wall-mounted gallery shelves, but I would love to create a photo wall like yours in our newly remodeled basement. I just won a free professional photo session for my two little kids, so this will be the perfect excuse to get going on it!
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Ali, you collections are so inspiring, I've been drawn to the canvas mounts for awhile now... I think you just pushed me over the edge! :)
I have a few collections here and there around the house--framed mostly. But my favorite is the pair of black framed bulletin boards in my kitchen that gets FULL of photos that are rotated often. I love to see people stop and linger, checking them all out.
Thanks again for the ideas & inspiration!
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Love the look of the gallery wrapped and framed photo. how elegant!
Thanks for the opportunity to win one.
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We have 3 cameras going at our house. With 6 children and now 7 grandchildren, there are lots and lots of pictures and memories. Lots. And about every year there is a new little face on the scene. I'm in the process of reframing and updating. I am going to have to do some of these canvas pictures. They are so cool!
Love your blog.
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How inspiring! We haven't got any single photo of us in the flat, just an empty square frame waiting to be filled. Ideally, I'd love to have at least two groupings of photos - in the corridor and above my desk - to enjoy while passing by and while working.
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