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.
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I have my photos on the walls, but also in home decor projects and of course, in my scrapbooks. Thanks!!
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I love all of the photo spreads you've shared. We just moved into our house a few months ago, and I have plans to do a few walls like this. So far, I've done one (in our main eating area), and we all love it.
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My husband and I just bought a house and we are ready to fill it with pictures -- a wrapped canvas would do just the trick!
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I have a photo wall with all different sizes of photos and colors of frames.
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We are mostly living with our photos on my iPhone camera roll, at one stage I had over 1000 photos & me & the kids would sift through them enjoying the memories.
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We only have one family photo on the wall. Despite lots of attempts to get more up it just never seems to happen. I get bogged down in which photos to select to put up and just never get any up. I love your collections around the house! I think I just need to dive in and accept that there is no "perfect".
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I have photos of the kiddos on the walls. School pictures and for the little girl her photos taken at a studio. I need to print out larger ones to hang on the walls. More candid photos. I have a basket in my kitchen that has random photos in it from the past. We love to look through them and reminisce. Thanks for this post. Now I know what to put on my walls! :-)
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Right now, we are only getting to live with a few of our photos as our house is on the market. But I have big plans for our next house and one of these canvases would be PERFECT!! I can't wait to get a picture of the four of us + the dog standing in front of our new house while it is being framed. I think it would make a great enlargement :)
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I love photos as well and am in the process of building a new photo wall in my living room.
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I love seeing pictures of your family photos in your home. I do the same thing. I think we only have four pictures in our entire house that is not a photo or portrait of our family or family member. I have canvasses, large prints framed, and in the boys room there are photo collages of their sports activities. I also have a few of my scrapbooks in a bookshelf in the living room for us and any guests to enjoy.
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Thanks for this! Your galleries look great.
Living in a house with four floors and a lot of stairs, we have galleries hanging in each stairwell landing. One is visible from our living room.
I've also turned one wall of my office at work into a gallery of travel photos. Always sparks conversion with visitors.
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I have two vertical 3 slot plate holder thingies in my entry. This winter we had an incredible snow on Christmas Eve and I tromped around the yard on Christmas taking photos. I decided to print them and placed them in matted frames - and I placed them in the plate holders. Now that it is Spring, I have replaced the snow scenes with photos of tulips, cherry blossoms, dogwood bloom, and bradford pear trees in full bloom. I plan to switch out the photos depending on the season. I can also use this gallery to display family photos!
I also have a guest room that I call the Grandma's Room (named this before *I* was a grandmother. Here I have bookcase with lots of photos (and a few books) of our family.
Thanks for sharing your ideas and resources. I use FotoFusion for digital scrapbooking and didn't know that I could get 12 x 12 prints ;-)
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I have some acrylic frames that hold 12x12 layouts. The pages are day to slip in and out, so I change often. So far this is all I've managed to get up on the wall, but I'm working on it.
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I love to use pictures as wall art as well. I have a few different groupings and recently purchased a wrapped canvas that sits on an easel in one of our bay windows. Love It!
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Awesome giveaway! I have a huge wall that would be the perfect place for a mass of photos. I am just so worried about messing it up.
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I live with photos on my walls and on my shelves. My photos are considered artwork for my house. All of my loves.
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We have a small number of photos hung; they are mainly singular photos that we've had enlarged and then professionally framed. Would love to canvas frame a photo from our vacation to Belize!
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I have a grouping of my son on our stairs, all in black frames. The wrapped canvas prints are great! Definitely something I'd like to include to add variety.
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I love to put photos anywhere and everywhere. Have not tried the canvas yet. Looking forward to expanding my options.
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When we built our home 15 years ago, we included bookcases in our family room to allow plenty of room for family photos. Framed photos also sit on table tops and we have (4) framed 16x24's on the walls. We also have magnetic clear plastic frames on our refrigerator. Thanks for showing your beautiful variety of displays. I love the look of the gallery mounted canvases from Color, Inc.
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I love all my photos. They move all around the walls and I can't seem to retire any of them.
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I love my photo walls. I need to work on getting pictures of my husband and me as children. Right now my pictures start when our family was officialy established. (our wedding pictures). They continue into our daughters and now I need to add our grandsons. I love remembering and feeling the love of the memories.
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I'd love one of these. Thanks for the chance to win!
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after living in our house for 4 years we are *finally* starting to put pictures up on the wall and make our house our home ... your photo collages have given me a lot of inspiration!
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We've been in this house for almost three years now and only recently started putting up photos and it's really feeling more like home. But I want to continue to add photos, mainly upstairs which is really bare. We have a few clusters throughout our downstairs. One above the couch of our engagement, wedding and honeymoon. Two sets frame the t.v. in the family room and a collage frame hangs in the hallway above the school cubby area for my kids to hang their coats and backpacks. One of my faves, are the series of pictures in our half bath. They are all pictures I took on our 1 year anniversary trip to Italy that I converted to black and white and put in black frames.
I'd love to start a collage of our family in our master bedroom, expand on the thomas train collage in my son's bedroom. Create some kind of collage for my daughter in her room and liven up our guest bedroom with some photos. But all in time. Our photos in the house are a continuous work in progress. But definitely got a few great ideas from your post. Thanks Ali!
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