How to Decorate Your Home with Photographs

It's easy to create your own framed photographs and spend a fraction of the cost you would by purchasing someone else's photographs. Take these tips and decorate your home with your own personal photographs.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Camera
• Creativity
• Inexpensive frames

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   Decide on the theme you'd like for any given room in your home.

2. Take pictures of scenes that match your chosen theme. For example, maybe you'd like to decorate your bathroom in a seaside/beach theme. This is easier of course if you live by the beach. If you go on vacation though, take pictures of everything – you never know what you might use.

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   Take photographs of scenery from far away. Take photographs of nature close up too. Have a variety of images from which to choose.

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   Decide on the best photos. Get them enlarged to either 5x7 or 8x10 size. If you go larger than that, make sure your photograph won't look grainy or odd at a larger size. Decorate your home with several different sized photographs for great visual interest.

5. Frame your photographs in inexpensive frames. I found several nice ones at the Dollar Store, Wal-Mart, and a store we have here called Old Time Pottery. Kohl's often has photo frames on sale as well, if you prefer a higher quality frame. Garage sales and thrift stores are also good resources for photo frames.

Tips & Warnings

• A few ideas for themes: lighthouses, beach, nature, water features (lakes, ponds, creeks, streams), animals, flowers, gardens, farms, barns, trees, etc.
• Your imagination is your only limit!
• We recently redecorated our bedroom and I had been searching for some framed pictures or prints to hang above the headboard. Nothing I found seemed right for us. So, I decided to make my own "art". I took pictures of some beautiful flowers at my parent's house, using my digital camera. The best ones were chosen, enlarged, and framed. (That's the collection in the photograph here.)

Resources

• Designing, Furnishing, and Decorating for Every Room of the House
• How To Decorate Your Home With Pansies
• How To Host a Home Decor Exchange Party
• How To Decorate With Photos by rockymtngrma
• More Articles by Susan
• Budget Decorating by cottagehomedecorating.com

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on 6/14/2009 This is great advice! When you have a digital camera, you can take many photographs, and print them, for next to nothing. I imagine that it must be very rewarding when people compliment the pictures you decorate with and you get to say, "Thanks, I took them myself!"

[rockymtngrma]

on 4/4/2009 Excellent idea-decorating with your own photos. Yours are absolutely georgeous!

[Geargirl113]

on 12/11/2008 Photos as decoration is a great idea. Thank you for sharing.

[slphilbrick]

on 9/19/2008 Great suggestions..... using your own photos gives it more personality too !

[archip99]

on 8/25/2008 I took many photos of my son and I have no idea how and where to put. Now my family loves my photos arrangement. Your advices have taught me well. Thanks.