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.
We don't have kids, so our travel photos line our walls. I love reliving those memories as I walk through our home. We went to Paris and Germany last summer and haven't yet printed/hung any of those photos, so would love to win this! Thanks!
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We have a wall in the hallway that has all of our family photos. we just finished remodeling the living room and need to add a few photos there. Love your collection. Thanks!!
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I love having family photos on tables and the walls...Thanks for the chance to win.
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Hi Ali, I love you photos all over. About a month ago I decided to move the diferent photo galleries I have spread out troughout the house and into one single massive focal point at the large wall on the stair landing, it is a huge really tall wall so the process is still ongoing, a lot of measuring and selection is involved but when it is done it will be the very first thing you see from the front door when you walk in, it is actually the first thing you see from the window right next to the door. This canvas on a frame would be a great adition to this eclectinc collection of photos!
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I have framed photo's hung throughout the house, but I love how you have grouped yours using both the framed and mounted images. I love the look of the framed Gallery Wrapped Canvas. You continually inspire me!
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Thanks for all the inspiration...I use to have a photo wall inspired by my aunt whose house I visited as a child. I took all my photos down to repaint and they just never got rehung. Time to dust them off and put our memories back up.
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I have photos all over my house - 2 of my favorites - 1) on one wall, I have scenery photos I've taken while on vacation and have matted them with old maps (got at auction) that are of the area in which I took the photos and then I put a metal ring over the exact location 2) In my sunroom , along the ceiling border on the two glass walls, I have put 36 5x7 vacation photos (again scenery) on acrylic boxes - both always get lots of comments.
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I have a few small collections in two separate areas of our house. Just ordered five pictures of my children (a 20x24 in the middle and then four 11x18 prints - 2 of each will go on either side of the center one) I am so excited to get these back from our photographer TOMORROW!!!! I just ordered my second canvas print and am patiently waiting for its arrival as well.
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love the photo collage in Anna's old room. I went to Ikea today, to buy stuff to create my own!
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I don´t have enough pictures of my family hanging on our walls but you have motivated to me get on it! What a great giveaway!!!
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Thanks for all the great ideas and inspiration. I have a lot of framed pictures on tables desks and shelves but I would really like to start a wall of pics now!
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Oh wow, I've been wanting to do canvas of my wedding photos...this is so beautiful.
I live with my photos all over our house. We have a side wall in our living room dedicated to our daughter's photos and then collage frames through out the house of our family. I also have magnetic frames on my refrigerator that forms a collage of all the children in our life.
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I don't live with my photos enough, I have big plans for my staircase.
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I have made many scrapbooks, minis and 12 x 12's with family themed photos: mother, father.baby, horse camp, etc. We have a table with family photos displayed in various mismatched (shabby chic?) frames. And we have a photo gallery in the hallway with mixed frames. I need to get more family photos out on display in plain sight! Thanks for the inspiration!
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thanks so much for posting this-- we do alot of framed photos in our house too! i have a huge wall i need to tackle and it's a bit overwhelming- thanks for the referrals!
also-- i remember seeing the huge block of frames in anna's old room a few years ago- and loved it so much that i recreated the same thing in my daughters room!!! it's a job getting all of those frames straight! :)
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I have plenty of framed pictures sitting on tables and bookshelves but not enough on the walls. I’ve wanted to venture out and make a collage on our bedroom wall. Winning this would be just the push I need!!
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when i was growing up, we had a huge bunch of family pix just thumbtacked to the wall. lately i have recreated that feel with various framed pix of family members. a family tree of sorts, but not organized. Love it and love that my dad actually caught the connection to the hallway when growing up.
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We definitely need to LIVE with our pictures more. Thanks for the inspiration!!
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Your photo collections are a DREAM! I have a couple in my house but yours are so adorable...I am completely inspired to do more with my photos...I think I might start with our stairs! :)
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I have one photo wall but love the canvas prints...this has me inspired!
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Thanks for showing me that it’s ok to mix and match. I need to venture outside of the world of black frames and white mats! Thanks so much, Ali!!
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I have been wanting to creat a wall of pictures but have been too afraid to do so. I think this will be the perfect way to start my wall. Thank you for the inspiration.
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I've framed about ten of my scrapbooking layouts using 12 x 12 frames from Michael's (which I bought two at a time with coupons) and put them up in my office. They are so fun to look at; I can't wait to frame more and get them up on the walls.
I'd love to have a few gallery wrapped canvases on the walls of our house, too. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I love seeing the ways that you have displayed your photos on the wall. I definitely need inspiration and these displays are just what I need.
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I am slowly building and adding more life to our walls with snapshots. i love the gallery wrapped canvases! another thing i LOVE to do is frame my daughter's artwokr throughout different developmental stages in her life. my fav - a still life she did of her daddy's guitar and case at five years old. it's amazing. Thanks for the give-away!
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