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.
Oh, I get so inspired by your blog Ali, I am currently scanning in 18 years of photos for my son's graduation party...I'll get a book together for him by June and would love to also frame some of these treasures that I am finding in my "pre-digital" boxes of photos. I'd love to make a framed gallery wrapped canvas out of one of these old shots! Thanks for the chance to win one!
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Love the canvas photos. I have photos everywhere in my home, but especially on all our bookcases and on the piano. I have a canvas print in my room of my kids when they were little and it makes me so happy to wake up each day and look at it!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE your collections! I am also thankful for the beautiful idea! We just had our first child and I can't wait to start collections on his nursery wall, our bedroom, and in the hall! Right now I just have the standard frames around with random pictures.
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Last year for my daughter's first birthday, I had 4 favorite 8x1O photos of her printed, 1 from each season. I put them in frames and spelled out the seasons with chipboard letters across the front. I used them to decorate the food table at her party with a sign that said "What a difference a year makes." Afterwards I hung them on the wall. I plan to make a tradition of it.
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I have several photo collections in different rooms of my house. Love Color Inc idea and think it would compliment what I have started! Thanks!
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I have photos at home in frames on walls and on a little stand in my office at work.....and lots lying here and there waiting for a home.
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I love that you have a 20x30 on your wall. I've been trying to explain to wedding clients lately that an 8x10 or 11x14 is not as big as you can go!
We just did a series of four 18x24 prints on a large wall in our family room. It was an expense, but it makes me so happy to see every day.
We also have collections of smaller framed prints around the house that will be easier and more cost effective to switch out over the years.
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I'm just starting to move towards living with my photos. I've long struggled with perfectionism. I've avoided choosing pictures because I didn't have an overall plan, but seeing your collection helps me to see how this can be a far more organic process than I've imagined. I'm inspired now - thanks for sharing!
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I put my pics mostly in albums and on my walls. I love Collage prints and the corresponding frames.
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I have 3 photo walls in our house currently and am getting ready to start one in our upstairs hallway as soon as we put a final coat of paint on the walls! I love photo walls and like to include subway art and quotes in the mix! The upstairs hallway will mix old photos and current ones of loved ones not living in our 'family of 5' house, i.e. grandparents, aunts, uncles, great grandparents, etc. Great giveaway! Happy weekend!
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Most of my photos are in stand up frames scattered around the house. I love the idea of creating collections on the wall!
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I have many photos in frames, some printed onto canvas, all shapes and sizes
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I have all formal portraits on the walls but would love to add some informal pictures!
Thanks for sharing your collection!
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i love my family photos!
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Our photos are framed all over the house....lots of collages, too. I love B&W photos in black or white frames. Building on that collection. I really like the mounted photos shown on your blog. Going to research that a bit. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I can't wait to borrow some of your ideas for my house! I have an empty hallway wall for the entire 8 years I've lived in my home. I'm so excited at the thought of getting some of my favorite candid shots on the wall! Thank you for sharing so many fab ideas every day!
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I have started developing photo walls too...I started with a black & white photo collection of my 3 boys with different people in our lives....I have an empty wall right now that I am trying to decide what to put on it!
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In the three years we have lived in this house we never have hung many pictures. Now that we expect to be moving before the end of the year, I have been thinking about how I want to have my favorite pictures out for everyone to see instead of just me on my computer. Thanks for the great ideas...I'm going to start this weekend by going through my pictures and creating a file of the ones I'd like to have on the wall...hmmm...this makes me think...maybe now I know what I can ask for for birthday and Christmas presents this year! Can't wait to start decorating a new place!
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I love your photo collections ....you have inspired me to start hanging! ....thanks for a great giveaway!
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I love these--I am working on a wall in our house. I have been using your walls for ideas. Thanks for more photos!
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I love your photo collections Ali! I love to put up photos; I have done a combination of b&w in black frames, regular colour photos in different types of frames and I try to have lots of photos of our family in the rooms we spend the most time in. I have so wanted to try out the canvas wrapped photos! I have seen them on Pinterest and am definitely jonesin' for some! I love your photo of Anna - it looks fabulous!!
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I so love all of your collections of photos...I live with my photos on the wall in frames, on most shelves or tables, on my screen saver and ofcourse in my scrapbooks. I love all the ideas that you shared and would love to recreate them in my home...thanks for the chance
Kim Bolyard
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Love how you display your photos...thank you for the fabulous ideas! I recently got married & we are looking for a nice way to display some of our favorites as well as some awesome daily moments!
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In our hallway upstairs I have created a mass collage of all three of our boys lives. One collage frame has a picture of them at 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 months. Another has 18, 24, 36, and 48 months. There is a frame for a 5 year pict and then one that houses a space for their yearly pict from 6 to 18 years. Everyone in my house loves to stand and stare. You can see how they have grown, how they look (or don't look) like eachother, how they have worn some of the same outfits, and (sadly) how few spaces are left before they are old enough to leave home. It is my favorite spot in the house.
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I live with my photos on my computer mostly - love the slide show screen savers - just chat with my daughter on the phone and watched photos on my laptop drift from one to another on the screen saver - sweet memories while enjoying a moment with my college girl! Thanks for this opportunity Ali, would love to see more images on our walls!
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