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.
Your photo collections are wonderful! We bought our house about a year ago and are just now thinking about where to put our pictures. We currently have some nestled among our books on our bookshelves, others on the mantle and even some on the fridge!
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My favorite scrapbook layouts go into 12x12 frames on my dining room wall for a time before being put into an album. And I just created a spring display over the fireplace--a large, empty picture frame strung with ribbons, on which colorful clothespins hold photos, a drawing from my niece, a paper flower, a thank you card, even a seed packet. (inspired by a link on Elsie Flannigan's blog)
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What a wonderful collection. I have a photo collage of my husband's and my parents and grandparents in the downstairs hall, photos of my kids in the den and going up the stairs plus another groupoing in the upstairs hall. Thanks for the chance!
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we have a few canvases that i have grouped together. in our old house we had white frames w/ black & whites (wedding pics of my greats & great greats, my mom's silouette when she was little next to my siloutte when i was litte) going up our staircase. i think i'll do that again when we live in another house with stairs. love pictures & love to incorporate our past in with the present!
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i have our photos lining our hallway to our bedrooms and i am atarting a large collection in the office. thanks for some new ideas.
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Love this Ali! I have one gallery wall in our living room above our sofa & I love it! I would like to do others in our home too, just haven't figured out where or made the te to do it. I love the idea of the childhood photos of you & your hubby!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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We have one rotating, themed photo wall that has a mix of 5x5's to 8x10's all framed in different black and silver frames. The only rule for the wall is that the pictures have to be taken either by us or friends and family. They are on a wall in our kitchen. Right now the theme is "trees". It is time to switch them out for a new theme but I am not sure what I want to go with. I have a nice grouping of cacti and some bridges but am really leaning towards portraits. I want to create a collage wall in our 10 month old sons room but just haven't figured out if I want it to be random or very planned and symmetrical.
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Since repainting I haven't put the photos back up on the wall in the living/dining room & hallway, but your post today has given me so many ideas and inspired me to get them back on the walls. Thanks.
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Your walls are inspirational Ali! I really need to get more family photos hung.
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Thanks for this wonderful piece today about photos/art on the wall. My kids are in college and I love having the photos of 'yesterday' when they were younger hanging on the walls around the house.............makes that 'letting go' feeling a bit easier to see all the happy smiles and memories of yesterday that went into making them who they are becoming today.
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I really, really need to live with my photos more. I have a photo wall in progress in my hall, though. Thanks!
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I use to have pics on my wall, and I change every year.
Thanks for the giveaway Alie
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I think every room in our house has a ton of pics. My favorite is in the kitchen. I have 9 matted 8X10 frames (very traditional) hung on a very modern pottery barn wall easel. I can easily change and update the photos as my daughter grows up and change the orientations horizontal to vertical as needed without any additional nail holes. The traditional frames make it fit nicely into my decor as a focal wall.
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I love your wall collections. I always had lots of framed photos around the house, but since moving into our current house I have hung more framed photos. My favorites are photos that my MIL had an artist paint on canvas of my kids, but this is not an option for any more photos. I love the framed canvas - that's definitely something I will have to pursue. Thanks for the info and for sharing your wall layouts.
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Below is a link to my photo wall. I would love to get another photo canvas! I really like your 30x20 standout mount taken by Tracey Clark.
http://gel-oh.blogspot.com/2009/02/tip-thursday_26.html
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Every room in our house has some sort of family photos. The kids have photos in their rooms of friends, sports, and their faraway big sibs. The bathroom has tubby and potty shots -- all tasteful of course! Because we have no family nearby, I did collage frames with all of the faraway family when the kids were small. They're still a favourite. There are vacation photos, baby photos of the kids and childhood photos of the parents (us). Photos in the kitchen of kids growing up so fast. Photos everywhere!
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I am not great about displaying photos in our house, but i'd like to be...your photos are grea inspiration!!
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I have started a photo gallary in the hallway leading into our kitchen. I also have tons of frames photos scattered throughout the house. I love the pictures printed on canvas, I haven't done that yet.
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I have photos in scrapbooks, on bookshelves, & entertainment centers...I have a wall in our hallway that I want to do a wall of pics. I would also like to do some in our powder room all b & w in black frames. Your walls are awesome...i love them!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
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Love the photo's everywhere. I had started a wall in the hall going to our bedroom with all black and white photos with black frames...I'm inspired now to switch it up and get other walls decorated! Thanks for sharing.
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Love the peek into your wall photo collection. We have a 'sports wall' of 11x14 photos of my kids playing football, soccer, baseball,and swim competitions - love those. I like to put out Christmas photos during December of past years Christmas celebrations. Would love to create a few more photo walls. Thanks for the giveaway chance!
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I too live with my photos everywhere, I am in need of a change. I have been looking at several options this would be a great way to start! Thanks for the inspiration!
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i am trying to do the same in my house. i have some beautiful photos that my niece took hanging in my living room and photos of the special people in my life in a prominent place on my bulletin board at work along with accounting calendars and notices. seeing my favorite people and places each day just make me happy!
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we have a photo wall in our living room and assorted frames on surfaces around the house, but i'd love to make a photo wall in our bedroom, too. great giveaway!
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WOW! After painting my walls over a year ago, I am now inspired to get my pictures back out & put them back on the wall. Thank you for sharing.
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