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 seeing your walls and how you have used your photos to tell your story. I've been struggling to organize my story on my walls and love the inspiration that you provide! Thank you!!!!
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I am still in the process of decorating our walls. I love all your ideas!
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You make me want to redecorate and repaint my walls so I can do the same thing! AWESOME!!! Fingers crossed... :)
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We have, and I'm not kidding, 4 pictures in frames and that's it. It's sad and I need to get more pictures printed and up on our walls. Now, I need to just suck it up and get it done. :)
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love your collections- I'm interested in creating a photo wall- thanks for the inspiration! :)
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I love that most, if not all, the photos you displayed are candids, not posed family portraits. I would LOVE to try Color Inc.'s products.
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I am the WORST! I love photographs, but I have not hang them all as of jet. I have some from my daughters that I simply love, because they reflect each personality SOO well. but i hadn't found just the perfect frames until this post of yours.. love the way you have a collage of photos with the white frames, and now these new .. love them!!!
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What a fun way to arrange photos! I think I really like the new spin you have on "Photos You Love". I really love the look that the canvas wrapping gives a photo. I would have never even dreamed of something like that. It has givien me something to think about as a walk through my house, I have wanted a good excuse to update photos and frames Thanks for sharing.
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We've been in our new house for 3 years now and I've only put together two photo walls. I tend to leave frames leaning against a wall for a long time before I actually hang it.
But after visiting a friend who moved at the same time and has photos and kids art everywhere and seeing your photo walls, Im inspired to get it done! Tired of an impersonal house.
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i especially love the collection of white frames :). one day i will also have our own wall of photos!
thanks for the chance to win!
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I mostly have small pictures on shelves or tables around the house. We have wedding pictures and graduation pictures on the hall walls. I want to do pictures of my husband and I when we were young. I like your idea. So many of our pictures are of our 4 grandchildren.
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Ali, I love the collections in your home. Thanks as always for sharing so much of your life with us. Work on my photo wall is in progress. Waiting to blow up a new family pic and apply a vinyl quote as a beginning to a large wall collage. Can't wait
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We just moved into our home so I'm still finding homes for all my pictures. My most recent creation is a wall collage of everyone in our family's wedding photos. It is so beautiful.
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So excited to try this at our house!
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I have some photos on the wall near the stairs. I so want to blow up some of my fave ones. Photos are art for me!!!
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I have been wanting to do a photo grouping forever but so far we literally only have one photo on our walls. I love the look of pictures as canvas and have been looking at different options for that service so thanks for all the info/pictures today about Color Inc, and thanks for the opportunity to win.
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I recently did a small collection of photos in my daughter's room (using various Ikea frames) and also have a photo display on a ladder shelf in the living room (mix of old and new family pictures), but after reading your post I've decided I want to hang more family photos on the walls of our home. Love the look of the mounts and frames together. Great inspiration, Ali! Now I need to get to work! :)
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Beautiful photo displays! I can't wait to check out these products!
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The gallery wrapped canvases by Color Inc. make a wonderful
statement in any home. Would love to win and have one done of
my daughter who graduates from high school in a few short month.
Thanks for such a wonderful chance to win.
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Sadly, my husband takes great pictures which are very artistic but we only have a few framed and displayed on a table. I think the photos on the wall in a wonderful composition is much more powerful.
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we have a "wall of fame" at our house... a smattering of black & white photos of the ones we love... i adore this collection and is always my favorite wall, no matter where we are living. i love the variety of your collections... love how the colors and black & white photos all come together to tell one story.
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I've just recently hung a collection of 5x7s and 8x10s from photo shoots over the past 3 years -- I'm embarrassed that it took me soooo long to put them up and enjoy them1
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this looks really cool. The large wall in my living room is devoted to a mix of photos and items (mostly family photos) and I have recently been itching to redo/update with some new images and new frames. This would be just the right inspiration.
Oh, and thanks for the link on the removable tabs--I've been needing a product JUST like that for another photo wall in the hall.
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Normally we have photo collections all over the house, but we recently moved, and all of our photos are in boxes waiting for walls to be painted before finding their place on our walls again.
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Awesome collages Ali! I am in love with them all. It is so sad but I am currently living with my pictures on the computer =( lack of work for my husband= tight budget = no moolah for frames (which can get pricey). Thanks for sharing- that print from color inc looks amazing!
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