Category Archives: DECORATE

DIPLAY INSPIRATION: Living with Photos 7

Most of the display inspiration ideas that I’ve featured work well with newer family photographs.  But, what about those old family photos, the ones of your great-grandmother?  Get them out of their dusty albums and display them with pride if you are lucky enough to have them.

photo via apartment therapy
WHY: 1.  As you’ve seen here...

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DISPLAY INSPIRATION: Living with Photos 6

I’ve mentioned before the benefit and impact of going big, but I think in most cases people limit their idea of big to the size of the frame.  What about going outside the frame?

WHY:  I love this photograph applied as wallpaper 1) The use of a black and white image makes the image more neutral...

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DISPLAY INSPIRATION: Living with Photos 5

I’ve shown how going big can be very effective in displaying photographs.  So, for this post I wanted to show how you could still make an impact using smaller images.

photo via 4.bp.blogspot.com
WHY: If you have a collection of small prints that you treasure I think the above display works well because, a) the  ledge keeps...

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DISPLAY INSPIRATION: Living with Photos 4

I feel like I’m on a bit of a roll with my Display Inspiration blog post series.  So far I’ve managed to show very different ways of living with photos  Here’s my new pick:

photo courtesy of Real Simple
WHY: I think that most of us look at a photo and see it as one piece, but...

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DISPLAY INSPIRATION: Living with Photos 3

For my third post in this series, I wanted to show how effective one large photographic display can be.

photo via Christie Chase
WHY:  I think that in modern homes in particular larger images work especially well.  They a) keep the lines simple as there aren’t multiple frames for the eyes to move around, b) create a...

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