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 also live with my pictures daily...many a growing collage around the house most in my favorite medium, canvas. WOuld love to try a framed canvas, I've never seen one in person. Your walls look lovely with your sweet family. Thanks for sharing.
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I have some photos on the walls and some in frames on tables but nothing intentional like your groupings and I really want to change that.
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I love you photo collections. I too print out random photos that I love and hang them up in the house, but I have never thought of just mounting them instead of framing them. This prize would be a great way to give it a try.
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This is something I've been meaning to do for sometime - just get our photos up on our walls. I have a small group in my living / dining room but would like to get some additional ones throughout the house. Thanks for the chance to win!
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Thanks for this post, Ali - enjoyed learning about these products. I'm displaying some Instax mini prints in old spikey flower frogs. I've found it's a great way to scatter these little prints around my house :)
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We have one family picture wall right now that my kids live to look at. Soon we are moving to a new house with a lot more wall space!! Can't wait to have an art wall & more family pictures present!
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I'm so bad with printing our photo's. In South Africa weathered frames, made from old scurting boards, is has been high fashion for a while. I love the rustic feel and have a wall collection of them with b&w new baby photo's in. And I always love my Ali inspired printers tray display on the wall.
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Not very well. We've been in this house 10 years and most of the framed photos are still in boxes in our walk in wardrobe.
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Such an interesting article about how to live with your photographs. I have many scattered around the house on nearly every surface but haven't thought about grouping them on the wall. It makes sense and I love the eclectic feel of different frames. Thank you for sharing, and the opportunity to win a framed gallery wrap canvas. They look stunning!
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In our bedroom I have B&W photos of my husband and I above the bed --- it's a good reminder on bad days of the love we have for each other.
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We have photos all over. In albums, in scrapbooks, on the walls, in collage frames on shelves as well as individual frames, on the bulletin board in my office, and on the screen saver to our home computer (picture slideshow). I am currently working on moving them around and creating groupings on some walls. I have a huge wall in my upstairs hallway just begging to be filled with a grouping of photos and one of those prints would be a great way to get started. Thanks for sharing your photos with us and thanks for the chance to win.
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I have a mixture of photo's in frames on wall's & shelves, a couple of shadow boxes and one very large unmounted print-that one happens to be my favorite!
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I have always displayed my photos, we have very little wall space left but that is just the way I like it. We moved a lot for the first 20 years of marriage (military family) and a house wasn't a home to us until the pictures went up.
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I just finished a complete remodeling and am just beginning to decide what I want to hang and where. These wrapped canvases are awesome.
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I love photos on the wall and scrap layouts too.
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I have to be honest ... I haven't really taken that first step yet. I have the kids' most recent school photos up, and a series of small vintage photos mounted on a grapevine swag, but I would really love to do an entire wall. I love all of your examples. Really inspiring.
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Beautiful walls !!! Thanks for sharing... so much inspiration.
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OMG I LOVE LOVE all the photo's...and yes in every room!!! I also do the SAME thing. Mostly things I have done myself...with a few professionals. My boys senior pictures and a few family ones. My Mom just recently said. "You have to many pictures up on the wall." I thought I would just die when she said that. Are you kidding...there is nothing better than capturing that awesome smile...someone when they are not watching. They make the BEST pics in my book. Thanks Ali...I LOVE to see your halls, your walls, things that are so special to you. I really get that!!! Gonna check out that site now. Thanks for the chance.
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I have just started putting our family pictures on the walls. It is almost embarassing that it has taken me this long (our oldest is five). Now I want to hang all kinds of pictures up. I would love to win this giveaway!
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As a professional photographer, you can imagine that I'm taking pictures all of the time, and I'm always looking for new vendors and new products, not only to present to my clients, but to use in my own home as well. Other than actually LIVING my photos, I'm just now trying to live WITH them as well. I started a Project Life which has helped get the images off of my computer and out into the real world. We just moved into a new home, and I'm slowly trying to build photo walls. We have a LOT of wall space to use!
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I don't have any up right now--we just moved two states away into a rental house--temporary until our old house sells and then we buy here and move again! Crazy times around here!
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Unfortunately I forget to print them but I love having any excuse to flip (digitally) through them. I also have a Kodak digital frame and I love it!
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I love your photo galleries. I need to get my photos off my hard drive and onto my walls.
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I LOVE photos around the house! I have a wall in the upstairs hallway that is a combination mish-mash of frames but to me, it looks like family - a collection of different people who are members of the same family/a collection of frames of different styles and shapes that are part of the whole. Whenever I watch HGTV I yell at the TV when they say to remove photos and personal knick knacks when you want to sell your house. As a buyer, we've bought three houses in 15 years, I LOVE seeing HOMES, not HOUSES... and photos make a house a home!
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I have a few photos hanging on the walls. Even more in frames in my bookcase and on the piano. I would love more photos on my walls. I love what you have done. Great ideas!!
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