Chances are, there’s a drawer in your home filled with odds and ends such as postcards from friends and relatives, buttons that have come loose from coats and jackets and the odd small fridge magnet. There are also gifts from your kids from their school trips.
You could be surprised by the number of things you can put in a frame. It doesn’t have to be solely photographs and art prints that are housed in picture frames.
Here are three small items you can fit into a frame
The family home is filled with memories, and that’s not only shown in the photography of kids, grandkids and relatives on the walls, but it’s also the emotion connected to everything around the home. The inherited display cabinet in the hallway, the dining room table perhaps bought at auction and the nursery designed and created by Mums, Dads, Grans and Grandads.
What’s in each room is what gives your house a special sense of home. That special sense of home can be enhanced by putting photos and art of special significance with items that relate to the emotions that tie to them.
Any print can be framed, but it’s not always easy as frames are generally made to uniform sizes. When you have a print that doesn’t conform to the norm, and you really want it framed to put on display, you’ll likely be dismayed when you find out the price of custom framing. Whilst taking it to an experienced framer will get you professional results, it’s not always the case that you can justify the cost of a made-to-measure frame.
Fortunately, there are effective DIY routes you can take to frame non-standard sized prints without breaking the bank.
March 20th, 2019 is the official date for March Equinox, marking the beginning of Spring. A time of year when seasons change, time reverts to Daylight Savings Time on March 31st giving us all an extra hour of daylight, most of which will be spent relaxing at home.
How’s your design looking? How about the paint? What about how you feel when you’re in those rooms?
Spring is the time of year when Easter rolls around. A time celebrated for rebirth.
Have you ever taken what you thought would be a great photo to get framed, beautify it and proudly hang it somewhere in your home that you know needs a little something to make it special?
Bored of your décor? Tired of looking at the same pictures, or interested in hanging artwork but afraid it’s not going to work? With these tips, you may find what you have is all you need to transform how you display your prints.
Artistic elements are in every room, whether you intended to create the look or not. If you take a look around the photos, you have on your walls, on sideboards, and dressing tables and the soft furnishings you have, you’ll notice they either complement or detract from a central theme.
Finding inspiration for your interior décor can come from many places, mostly online through social media platforms. Facebook photos, Instagram and gorgeous glossy cover photos on Pinterest. Some people still find their inspiration from magazines picked up in the supermarket. They all work.
The advice from interior designers and a lot of framers is to hang your art at eye level, recommended to be around five feet, or roughly 60-inches. The reason is that it’s a comfortable viewing position, so you and your guests won’t strain your eyes to see it.
Sounds logical, but it’s not always sound advice.
Here’s why…
It only applies if you’re standing up. Sit down, and it’s no longer at eye level, so you’re going to strain your neck, never mind your eyes to see your painting or wall art.
Remember the days of popping down the high street with your roll of film to put into the shop for printing? They’d take the negatives, give you a packet of all the photos you had on a spool with the negatives inside it if you wanted more copies. This was way back before the memory card era.
