I need to decorate…
My walls are bare. They are also painted in lovely rental white. When I came home from my trip to my parent’s house, I was struck by the total bareness of my house. Not stark in a good “modern minimalist” kind of way, but in a bad “I don’t care about this rental dump” kind of way. I have decided I need to change that attitude. It’s boring. It doesn’t reflect me or my family.
Baby Steps:
I am thinking of a few photo collage ideas.
- I would like to put together some images from our recent trip to the beach at my parent’s house and hang them in my boys’ bathroom.
- I would like to get three photos of each boy and make a collage to hang on the wall up the stairs. Maybe not three, that would be nine frames hanging and that might be too many.
So this brings me to my line of thought:
What do you do with your momshots? Do you put them in a brag book? Do you scrap book them? Do you print them out and thumb tack them to a cork board? Do you have 100’s of family photos in frames on all available flat surfaces? What do you like to do?
July 15th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Hi Jessica,
Thanks for your post over at Dixie Gypsy today. I’m so glad to find your site! I’m really looking forward to catching up on your posts for some photography lessons. Thanks again!
Sara
July 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Welcome, Sara! I hope we can learn from each other. I hope your camera dries out and you can start taking your fantastic momshots again!
~Jessica
July 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
My mom bought four frames that were long and skinny and matted for four portrait photos in a row horizontally. She has four pictures of each of us: newborn, toddler, elementary school, and high school graduation. Since there are only four frames, it looks pretty good because the lines aren’t busy and you don’t have so many frames that need to be in line with one another (one reason I think the wall-of-frames is hard to make look good).
That being said, I am suffering from bare wall syndrome too! I do have some art I hung when we first moved in and a photo collage I made of my husband and I, but I haven’t done anything since my daughter was born except some artwork my sister did of her.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
We had a terrific, full on, family beach vacay in North Carolina last year and we took some posed and some candid shots. I put them in alternating black or white frames and put them up in my dining room. I really really enjoy decorating and design, so I find my decorating is mostly different from most utah valley homes. I recently posted some photos of my newly redone living and dining room at http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenmburton. Have fun and go a little crazy. I have never heard of “rental white”!
July 19th, 2008 at 12:29 am
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July 20th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I used to put a few in individual frames but this makes for a lot of little pictures in a little space. Lately, if I’ve taken a lot of pics on a trip, or a party, I’ve been making photo albums at http://www.shutterfly.com. They’re fun to do and not really expensive at all. I still use a picture every now and then in a really good frame for the wall.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
This is where I can really get down…. I love to decorate. If you will recall, I posted this same question you posed in this post in your comment section of an older post when you first started up this site. SOmeone commented with some great ideas…he was like a real photographer-know-how-guy. Anyway he had some great suggestions. YOu should browse through and reread it.
I like to be mis-matched and use many different styles to form my own. Try painting frames different colors and group some on a wall to form a pattern (a T, a cross, a flower). Pay with the framed picts on the floor so you have the grouping pattern in place before you hang them up. I have also a more polished style that I like… 3 floating shelves placed on your wall that support several matted black and whites.. no nails needed for the ictures as they rest on the shelf. Place small snapshots on odd places where it is more of a treat to see them. In the book shelf, In the laundry room, hanging above the toilet paper roll, at your office/desk. Even a big wall covered in framed pictures is cool. Maybe dedicate every square inch of your hallway or a wall in your front room.
Hope this helps.
Just put some of your shots onto dvd to watch late night when you cannot sleep…shoot, be can make these into films for you to enjoy in a whole different way!
Cheers~
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I do recall…
Ever since your comment, I have been thinking about it. I know I have more ideas too. We should make a big list of all kind of cool things we can do with our momshots. I love your ideas above. As always, Rachel, you rock! 
July 25th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Something fun, but rather expensive is buying wall display templates. I ordered one from Pinkle Toes photography. It tells you what sizes of frames to buy and how to display them to make them more decorative.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
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