How to Accessorize Your Home With Family Photos
Family photos are a great way to accessorize your home. They can give your home a warm and welcome feeling, not just to you and your family, but to visitors as well. In addition, they are a good way to fill up wall space that might otherwise look bleak and empty. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Frames
- Mats
- Photos
- Brown craft paper
- Painters blue tape
- Sawtooth hangers
- Wire
- Screw ties
Instructions
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Choose the photos you want to display. You might want to consider framing and displaying copies rather than the originals since light, heat and humidity can fade photographs.
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Group the photos by theme or color. It can be really fun to group photos around a particular idea and then see how visitors and your family react to them. For example, if you have old sepia toned family photos you might consider grouping them together and displaying them on one wall.
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Matte the photos. Matting the photos can make them look quite nice and professional, plus if you are crafty, you can decorate the mat before putting it and the picture inside the frame. For example, add a strip of bead weaving to the mat for a glittery look.
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Choose frames that are complimentary to the colors in the photos. Consider purchasing the same frame colors for a wall grouping so the pictures compliment each other.
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Mat and frame your photographs. Preparing your photographs is one of the bigger tasks when it comes to accessorizing your home with family photos, but it is also the most enjoyable.
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Cut out pieces of brown craft paper to represent your framed photos. Try to make the pieces of paper approximately the same size as the frame for the photo they represent. Using these sheets of paper experiment with different placements of your photos on the wall you want to hang them on. Use the blue painter's tape to tape up the papers in different design groupings until you have the one you want. This will prevent you from having to put new holes in the wall when trying different groupings.
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Poke a hole in the paper with a pencil where you would want the nail to go to hang each picture. Put a small mark on the wall in that place so you won't forget.
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Take all the papers down off the walls and then hammer in the nails where you put your marks. This will save you having dozens of holes in your wall that will have to be plastered and painted over later.
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Hang your framed photos. on the wall. Don't forget to change out the pictures every few years to keep them fresh and timely.
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Tips & Warnings
Group your photos in seasonal themes, such as one group for summer, one for winter and so on.
If your picture weighs over 5 pounds, then put screw ties on each side of the top of the frame and twist wire in between the two screw ties so you have something to hang on the nail.
If your picture is less than 5p ounds, then you can just use a sawtooth hanger to hang the picture.
Resources
- Photo Credit (c) Ksenia Kalinina and http://www.sxc.hu/profile/xksenia
