Family Photo Gallery in Your Home
In today's world, where everyone has a camera and many have a good printer, we have more family and friends' photos than representatives of any other era. The question is how to display them. Interior designers agree that interiors should tell a story, and family photos are perfect for that. Such a photo gallery not only tells our story but also shows where we are headed, and creating it is really not difficult; you can do it yourself, just need to prepare.
So, the first steps:
1. Decide where your gallery will be. This is quite personal; perhaps you won't want to show some photos to others, and you might choose the bedroom, but if there are many friends in the photos, moments with pets, or just pleasant memories and portraits of several generations, feel free to choose an empty wall in the hallway or living room, where there is a lot of movement and you can admire them often.
2. Then you need to decide whether the layout will be orderly or asymmetric. It doesn't matter so much which option you choose, but interior designers unanimously agree that the photos should have some common feature – the same color palette, identical frames, or the same size.
And now some ideas for inspiration:
Sometimes the decision is dictated by the architecture.
As you can see in this photo, when creating a gallery, you need to align with the lines created by the windows, so it was decided to neatly arrange photos of the same colors and sizes in identical frames. We note that it is very convenient to use a hanging system here. This way, the walls are not damaged, and the photos are arranged at the desired height with the preferred distances. If you want to change something, it's very easy to do. You can purchase such hanging systems at www.remai.lt.
Speaking of changes – if you know right away that you will want to frequently update and change your collection and look a bit wild, cover the wall with metal – then you can stick photos with magnets as you wish. If you cover a large area with metal in the hallway or near the stairs, where you often walk, but have a lot of unused space, it will look very impressive.
A similar effect can be achieved with magnetic paints that contain metal particles. A wall covered with such paint sticks to refrigerator doors – you can also stick photos with magnets as you wish.
If you choose this option, keep in mind that these paints require multiple layers, so it may take a little while.
The layout shown in the photo was chosen for a teenage girl's room so that she can easily and frequently change the arrangement of the photos.
Returning to framed photos – the frames can all be different, vintage, but then you should leave at least uniform distances between them. As you can see in the photo, such a composition will look best in a clean space, against a white wall.
How to hang photos?
First, you should lay out the entire composition on a large sheet of paper and trace each photo in its place with a pencil. Then attach the sheet to the wall with sticky painter's tape and mark the spots where you will need to hammer in the hanging hooks with a pin. Voila!
Whichever option you choose, you can do everything in one weekend, and the hooks, hanging systems, and custom-made frames along with professional advice will be provided by the framing workshop online at www.remai.lt.