Home décor can be enhanced by getting creative with your wall displays. Frames are generally described as picture or photo frames, but in terms of using them for artistic displays, there’s so much more you can do than only displaying your best collections of photographs.
Framed art is mostly considered to be poster art, paintings or sketches; however, art can be anything you find to be artistic, and that can extend to pressed flower art, glossy magazine covers or a creative assortment of paper designs stuck to a mount board and inserted into a picture frame.
As the night’s get darker, days seem longer and the summer months of garden parties have become a distant memory, the majority of our days after work are spent indoors, with the family in the sitting room around the television.
By the time Autumn rolls around, according to a study by the world’s largest mood board site (Pinterest), is when over half of Brits are thinking about redecorating their home. This is mainly because they’re spending more time indoors than they were when the better weather was around.
Everyone has their down days, and some of us have things we do to lift our moods, get our positivity back and motivate ourselves to push onwards towards our goals.
Some turn to comedy, knowing that science has proven laughter’s an excellent medicine; others are able to lift their spirit with the simplest of smiles.
Photo collages of memorable events in our lives are one of those uplifting tools we could all likely do with a bit more of in our lives. The pieces you need to put your own motivational and smile-inspiring collage is probably stored on your phone.
Changing the mounts that are inside your picture frames are a quick way to alter their appearance without reframing your photos. It’s handy for when you’ve changed the colour scheme of a room or even for photographers trying their hand at framing portfolio pieces.
All you need are some really sharp cutting tools, a straight-edged ruler - preferably a sturdy builders’ ruler that’s long enough to mark and cut your mount boards in one pass - and a pencil for marking your cutting lines.
Frames are the one thing in your home that shouldn’t be cleaned very often. Dusting, yes, but you don’t need to have your frames on your weekly cleaning schedule.
The reason is that provided they’re hung at eye level; they shouldn’t be getting fingerprints on the glazing. What they will do is accumulate dust. You can easily take care of that with a feather duster or a dry cloth.
Remember etch-a-sketch? The toy drawing pads toddlers and kids could doodle on, shake the toy, and it would remove the doodle, letting them start over with a blank canvas. Today, kids and adults can draw on smartphones, tablets and dedicated drawing pads, which are like tablets, but the only thing they can do is draw or write.
When you’re putting your home on the market, most advice centres around depersonalisation - making your home into a space that potential buyers can imagine themselves living in. For most families, that’s going to mean swapping a lot of oversized framed family photos such as christening collage frames, wedding photos and holiday snaps.
You don’t have to go out and replace your frames, as you can easily find affordable art to fit inside your current frame temporarily until you’re ready to rehang your own photos in your new home.
Polcore is made from recycled polystyrene. The largest advantage of it in framing is its price as it’s cheaper than real wood. Besides cost, though, Polcore is eco-friendly.
For contract framers or perhaps interior designers contracted to manage the art in hotels, guest rooms in B & Bs, business receptions or restaurants, sustainably sourced materials could contribute to a brand’s environmental policy and be more cost-effective too.
Most prints are hung on the wall in a stationary position used only for display purposes. It is, after all, the whole point of hanging art and personal photos on your walls.
But, for stretched canvas prints or even shadow box frames that have deeper recesses behind the frame, those can be a good depth to give you some storage space for items behind the print.
Most of us are walking around with personal libraries of treasured prints on our smartphones that would make for ideal gifts. The only thing you need to figure out to get your photos from pixels to print is how to do just that, without the output becoming a pixeled mess.
