3 ways to display photos

A well designed photo gallery on your wall will instantly add a warming homely feel to your place. Doesn’t matter how big or small the wall surface you’ve got you can make it work.

What you need is time and patience and of course a bit of money to collect frames you like, get pictures developed to the right size, and then frame the photos.

Traditional, contemporary, neat or shabby, what ever you prefer. The goal is to create a gallery with emotional attachment. Something you want to stop by and look at and something that will make your guest feel instantly at home and a part of your life.  Make it personal by adding pictures you like, magazine cut outs, your kids drawings or your dog’s paw print it doesn’t matter. What matters is to make it reflect your family’s character.

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Below is the 3 photo gallery in our house:

1) The inspiration wall as we call it – this a mix of our own photos, contemporary street  art and other images we liked from magazines or books. All this displayed in different style, shape, color and material frames. In this gallery I tend to change the photos once  every 1-2 years.

 

2) The sepia family gallery – some of these photos are the major milestones in our life therefore the photos won’t change. All the images are developed in sepia and framed in simple brown wood frames. To create interest we organized them in a mirror like effect. It was very time consuming to figure out the best way to do it and decide on order of the photos but the result makes it worthwhile I think.

3) The ever changing Instagram mirror

Since our baby was born we took and an absolute ridiculous amount of photos of him. Seriously way too much!!! And he is growing so fast I find impossible to pick from the best shots. For a very flexible option I created this mini gallery - using our handy sized Instagramm photos - in which we change the photos quite regularly. The mirror is above the fire place and the photos are stuck onto it with 4 small dots of blu- tac.  

On a day like today I’m sure there will be plenty of photos taken to celebrate Mothers’s day. What a great opportunity to gather a load of your photos together and start creating your family photo gallery. Happy Mother’s Day mammies! x