Family Photo Gallery in Your Home
Today, when each of us has a camera, and many also have a good printer, there are more family and friend photographs than ever before. The question is only how to display them. Interior designers agree that interiors should tell a story, and family photographs help to do just that. Such a photo gallery not only tells our story but also shows where we are going, and creating it is really easy; you can do it yourself, you just need to be ready.
So, the first steps:
1. Decide where your gallery will be. This is quite personal; perhaps you won't want to show some photographs to others and will choose the bedroom, but if there are many friends in the photos, moments with pets, or simply pleasant memories and portraits of several generations, feel free to choose an empty wall in the corridor or living room, where there is a lot of movement and where you can often admire them.
2. Then decide whether the layout will be neat or asymmetric. It doesn't matter which option you choose, but interior designers unanimously agree that the photographs should be combined with some common feature – the same color palette, identical frames, or the same size.
Now ideas for inspiration:
Sometimes the solution is determined by architecture.
As you can see in this image, when creating a gallery, you need to adapt to the lines created by the windows, so it was decided to neatly arrange photographs of the same color and size in identical frames. We note that it is very convenient to use hanging systems here. This way, the walls are not damaged, and the photographs are arranged at the desired height and distance. If you want to change something, it is 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 crazier, cover the wall with metal – then you can stick photographs with magnets as much as you want. If you cover a large area with metal in the corridor or near the stairs, where you often walk, and you have a lot of unused space, it will look very impressive.
A similar effect can also be achieved with magnetic paints that contain metal particles. A wall covered with such paints sticks to refrigerator doors – you can also stick photographs with magnets as you wish.
When choosing this option, keep in mind that these paints require multiple layers, so you may take a little longer.
The layout shown in the image was chosen for a teenager's room so that the girl can frequently and easily change the arrangement of the photographs.
Returning to framed photographs – the frames can be very diverse, antique, but then you should leave at least equal distances between them. As you can see in the image, such a composition will look best in a clean space, on a white wall.
How to hang photographs?
The first step is to arrange the entire composition on a large sheet of paper and mark each photograph in its place with a pencil. Then attach the sheet to the wall with tape and use a nail to mark the spots where the hanging hooks will need to be hammered in. Voila!
Whichever option you choose, you will do everything in one weekend, and with hooks, hanging systems, and custom-made frames and professional tips, you will be provided by the framing workshop online at www.remai.lt.