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.

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  1. Heather says…
    03/30/2011

    I have a few photo walls... I love to put random frames together. I also have a large canvas taken when my last baby was born of all three boys... a treasure.

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  2. karen young says…
    03/30/2011

    I have printed many photos around the house. But only one grouping. You've inspired me to put up a grouping in our living room above the couch where there is a huge wall space that needs fillin'!

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  3. sharilyn says…
    03/30/2011

    most of my photos are waiting to be printed.. and sitting on my hard drive. Occasionally I find a really good one and get it printed off/ waiting for the perfect canvas deal to print a really pretty one I took when in Holland ;)

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  4. Deb Rischar says…
    03/30/2011

    I live with my photos like many do.........Project Life is always on display and and I love to print and mat my own little gallery around the house. We only have a few canvas wrapped prints and I am very interested in learning more about what Color Inc. has to offer. Thanks!

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  5. Laura says…
    03/30/2011

    It's been hard for me to hang photos. I have an old house with plaster walls. But the desire is there! I keep thinking maybe some shallow shelves so there's less to hang but flexibility to display photos and my children's artwork.

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  6. AnnieM says…
    03/30/2011

    Most of my photos are in scrapbook albums, but this post and a post from the Young House Love blog about hanging pictures on walls in a grouping has inspired me! I have a few pictures on tabletops or tucked into bookcases, but this is SO much better!
    Thank you for the inspiration!

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  7. Kelsey says…
    03/30/2011

    Oh I have been wanting to get a large canvas print of one of our wedding photos for a long time. Just haven't had the money. I hope I win.

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  8. Karlene says…
    03/30/2011

    I have one wall of photos but need more. I love the mixture of frames and canvas. Truly inspiring.

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  9. Beth P says…
    03/30/2011

    we've talked about a phot wall fro quite a while and we really need to get on it. Thismight be just the start we need!

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  10. Cori J says…
    03/30/2011

    Hi Ali,
    Right now I live in limbo with my photos. We are in the process of selling/buying a new house. As part of that process I removed our family images in order to stage the house for selling.

    Usually I like to be surrounded by our family memories...I have them in frames in just about every room...although I have struggled with how to add them to the walls.

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  11. Deborah says…
    03/30/2011

    I have framed photos on a sofa table and others randomly around the house. I have some waiting for frames to go on the walls. As always Ali you are so imspiring!

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  12. Sally says…
    03/30/2011

    wow - great giveaway Ali. Like you we have many collections around our home. I love to see photo's everywhere. We have them displayed in all rooms except kitchen for some reason.

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  13. Miki says…
    03/30/2011

    I live in a house with very tall walls and have photos of family hanging all over. In fact there isn't a wall that doesn't have a photo on it. I even have a wall that's dedicated to photos of my ancestors. Sometimes I just stop and view and be reminded how blessed I am to have such a wonderful family.

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  14. Kim H. says…
    03/30/2011

    love that idea!

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  15. Julie says…
    03/30/2011

    We moved into our house over a year ago, and we only have a few pictures up. I want to put up photos we love, not "obligation" photos that I feel I "have to" have up.

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  16. Lesli says…
    03/30/2011

    I put my frames in clusters around my home. I also leave photo books out for us to browse when we want to!

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  17. Cheryl says…
    03/30/2011

    In my last house i only hung up 4 pictures, and we lived there for 7 yrs., when my husband built the new house in the country, we adopted a baby girl from China and I bought a professional camera, my whole basement is a photo gallery with pictures ranging from 4x6 to poster size, all put up beautifully and tastefully. I have mostly colors and a few black and whites scattered within. I simply love it, we have lived here for 7 yrs, I have approx. 100 framed photos and whenever I go downstairs, I have to stop and look at all the pics, and see all the love in my family, I don't have any Wrapped Canvas pictures, i have seen them and they are
    beautiful, one day I would like to get some of the pictures upstairs, so i can enjoy them there also.

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  18. Lindsay@thesimplefamilyproject says…
    03/30/2011

    I only have 1 personal photo on the wall. I seem stuck on deciding how to hang the pictures and what pictures to actually choose. Your pictures are very inspirational. Thank You!

    www.thesimplefamilyproject.blogspot.com

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  19. Kristi in CA says…
    03/30/2011

    I love your collections. I currently only have a collage on the wall going up our stairs. However, I think I am going to branch out and add more throughout the house.

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  20. Korey Lindberg says…
    03/30/2011

    We have several places in our house that have "pictures collections". We have a couple of collage style frames that hold pictures from our pre-kid trips to Tokyo, our engagement and wedding photos in our bedroom and my favorite, a new gathering in our upstairs hallway of pictures from the last year. I would love to get into some of the wrap canvas frames...and especially need a new family photo to proudly display after the birth of my new son! :D Thanks for the great contest and review of the Color Inc.'s new canvas style!!!

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  21. Sara says…
    03/30/2011

    I have a photo wall, but I definitely want to enlarge and improve.

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  22. Lee says…
    03/30/2011

    Unfortunately, I have very few photos out. When we moved I just never got around to hanging them up like they were in our old house. I miss them, especially now. My boys are 19, 15, and 14, those early years are over, the little boys that they were are gone. It would be nice to have pictures up to remind me of how much they have grown.

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  23. Sharon Osborn says…
    03/30/2011

    What a delightful giveaway-thank you! I am beginning to enjoy combining my photos with digital scrapbooking, then printing out to frame. I have a 3-way frame downstairs that I have switched out from Christmas, to Valentine's Day, to Springtime. Great Christmas gift for my husband!

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  24. Susan says…
    03/30/2011

    I have one living room wall painted a light turquoise/baby blue that serves as an entire display wall gallery of photos. Amidst my daughter's paintings in our guest room (it is a beach theme) I'm planning a smaller gallery of 'beach' theme photos that I've taken over the years.

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  25. Carol says…
    03/30/2011

    I have photos everywhere including baby hand and foot prints. Your walls are inspirational. I have alwys wanted to do a canvas photo.

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