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.
Photography has different markets and framing for your photographs have different suppliers. Some frame suppliers cater to trades such as artist organisations; some cater to supplying framing components. Others provide the full professional framing service including PDF proofs, try before you buy options, which can include sending frame moulding profiles by post before you proceed to place an order. Naturally, the try before you buy option will increase the price of the frame due to shipping and handling costs.
As much as mounts are important to protect paper prints in photo frames, it’s not always the case you want to use a mount board, perhaps feeling an edge-to-edge finish would better suit the photo you’re framing. It should be noted; spacers are not only suited to paper prints. They’re suitable for all types of frameable material, including needlework as the increased space can prevent mould from developing on the thread, which is sometimes referred to as thread rot.
Anyone with artistic talent has an advantage when it comes to giving gifts of significance. Gifts that are truly appreciated, understood and respected as pieces to be treasured for life.
Your talent may be photography, or it could be with words by creating personalised poems that resonate deep or maybe pencil sketching pet portraits.
Whatever your talent is, gifting prints, pencil sketches, painted art or poems wrote in calligraphy; a lone print tends to look tacky. But, framing everything you’re gifting, that’s going to get pricey.
There seems to be a stage that we reach in our lives when the majority of our friends reach a certain age and start their own family. It’s great news that makes everyone happy, and it also brings the headache of having to decide on a gift. Chances are, you don’t want to be known as that couple who always buys the babies trinket box.
The majority of artists have the age-old problem of creating art at a faster rate than they’re able to sell them at. Chances are, if that’s you, you’ll have a range of canvas prints, perhaps even photography, all neatly stored with preservation materials ready to demo at the next gallery, trade fair or exhibition.
In the months, weeks and days leading up to the demo event, the buzz can be overwhelming. Finally, you can take your masterpieces to showcase to an appreciative audience and make a profit from your creativity instead of it being stored away while you create more.
Photography and framing don’t have to be two separate issues. There are tips photographers follow that capture remarkable images on camera that then can be transferred to a wall display by applying the same techniques used to capture the image to present it best in your home, office, or bedroom.
The Top 3 Photography Tips to Use for Frame Positioning
