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06/07/2006 05:24:07 AM · #1 |
I am rescently a first home buyer and my walls are looking too damn plain for my liking. But i want to do something a bit different with my photo's, has anybody got any creative ideas in displaying around the home? or point me in any the right direction (threads/sites)
cheers Nick |
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06/07/2006 05:56:37 AM · #2 |
| everyone just leaves them on the hard drive hey? |
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06/07/2006 05:58:40 AM · #3 |
I saw something pretty cool at my mate's house.
He took two wires and spanned them across the back of his living room, about 30cm apart or more.
Not normal wires, those silver ones with the plastic over them, very fancy looking, but cheap.
Anyhow, so he would hang his black and whites up with washing pegs, and just change pictures whenever he feels like it.
He loves black and white so it looked really stylish. |
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06/07/2006 06:01:30 AM · #4 |
| thanks guyver, sounds like it could be fun i like the idea of renewing the pics easily |
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06/07/2006 06:03:38 AM · #5 |
Yeah, not only that, it kinda has that dark room feel, you know, when the pics used to hang to dry in the old days.
Very stylish if done properly. |
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06/07/2006 06:06:51 AM · #6 |
| only problem i see is my lovely girlfriend would probably make me get pink pegs! |
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06/07/2006 06:11:02 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by boysetsfire:
only problem i see is my lovely girlfriend would probably make me get pink pegs! |
LOL!
Wooden pegs work well for black and whites and sepia type pics, and you get these metal clips which is great for a more modern look. We use those here at work to showcase some of our work to clients.
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06/07/2006 06:42:11 AM · #8 |
how about making a collage on one wall with a "theme" to your photos, and all different frame types. Im doing this currently with photos of my family. I got the idea from oprah when a few years ago i heard that she has custom made wallpaper with family snapshots. since there is no way i can afford to do that myself I improvised to get about the same effect.
I really like the "clothesline" idea...i may have to try it in a room myself.
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06/07/2006 07:01:43 AM · #9 |
i have done a collage in my "boys room" thats kinda funny because people just stand their looking at it laughing for about 10 mins then keep going back to it and gets funnier the more they drink. Im working on covering the whole wall.
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06/07/2006 07:05:34 AM · #10 |
Collages are great, but Ive found they 'lose' their impact after a while.
Especially when you can close you eyes and name each and every picture from left to right, top to bottom in split minute precision.
After that's happened, you'll need to start a new one, and the effort and money sometimes outweighs the novelty of a collage.
Besides that, it's hard to chuck the old photos.
But thats just me :P |
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06/07/2006 07:14:46 AM · #11 |
We had a empty wall in our dining room. My wife suggested that I hang some of my black and white prints in a gallery style. It is easy to change the prints out as I get tired of them.
It feels awkward for me, but our guest usually spend time looking at them and I have even gotten a few jobs from it.
This is a really bad photo, but it gives you an idea of what I did.
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06/07/2006 07:18:05 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by davidcara:
We had a empty wall in our dining room. My wife suggested that I hang some of my black and white prints in a gallery style. It is easy to change the prints out as I get tired of them.
It feels awkward for me, but our guest usually spend time looking at them and I have even gotten a few jobs from it.
This is a really bad photo, but it gives you an idea of what I did.
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That is a beautiful display of your photos----I really like it! |
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06/07/2006 07:19:47 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by dagaleaa:
Originally posted by davidcara:
We had a empty wall in our dining room. My wife suggested that I hang some of my black and white prints in a gallery style. It is easy to change the prints out as I get tired of them.
It feels awkward for me, but our guest usually spend time looking at them and I have even gotten a few jobs from it.
This is a really bad photo, but it gives you an idea of what I did.
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That is a beautiful display of your photos----I really like it! |
THank you very much. I hope that oneday they will be hanging on someone elses wall! haha
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06/07/2006 07:22:17 AM · #14 |
yeah nice, I think the wire idea of guyver's would give a similar effect. I like that both idea are easily changed which i have decided is a must (short att. sp...
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06/07/2006 07:40:58 AM · #15 |
I'm in the process of moving some of my stuff around this month. I have this wild idea to do up a tryptich series in 20x30s across my back wall.
It's fun when you realize that you have more pictures that you want to hang up than you do wall space. :) |
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06/07/2006 09:36:45 AM · #16 |
| Check out rasterbator and the images in that gallery. There's some pretty neat stuff in there. I saw an article too about some cool stuff to do with hanging photos, let me see if I can dig it up. |
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06/07/2006 08:10:49 PM · #17 |
| How about any of you guys? Got any neet tricks? |
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06/07/2006 08:14:01 PM · #18 |
| I have a large mantle (corner fireplace) so I got 3 relatively cheap easles(?) and put my framed images on them. |
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06/07/2006 08:19:23 PM · #19 |
Make a number of collages like this one:
(that was done with Fotofusion) |
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06/07/2006 08:23:19 PM · #20 |
| Beetle's collage reminds me of another option. Create small boxes of different depths to be mounted to the wall. Then hang a picture framed using a clip frame or something similar on each of the mounted boxes. Allow for for some overlap of the pictures. This would give a three dimensional effect. |
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06/07/2006 08:37:18 PM · #21 |
Heres something i plan on doing soon-
Use photoshop to make a collage-like image of a theme, i was considering doing these serveral times for different walls. I.E. Fmaily, outdoors, cityscape, nightshots.
And then after i have the single image collage- using Rasterbator.
I have used Rasterbator a few times with some sucess and have really liked the output. |
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06/07/2006 09:28:22 PM · #22 |
Ansel Adams had a chest-high strip of molding around the wall of his studio. He'd mount prints and just rest them on the molding...
R.
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06/07/2006 09:44:29 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Guyver:
I saw something pretty cool at my mate's house.
He took two wires and spanned them across the back of his living room, about 30cm apart or more.
Not normal wires, those silver ones with the plastic over them, very fancy looking, but cheap.
Anyhow, so he would hang his black and whites up with washing pegs, and just change pictures whenever he feels like it.
He loves black and white so it looked really stylish. |
I've done that on my livingroom wall, except I used mini-clothespegs from the craft store with the wire threaded thru the springs so they never disappear when not in use. It started out to hold my xmas cards and has stayed up :)
Adhere some to old lp's, scatter them around the walls of a family room.
Cool fabrics such as brocades adhered to foamboard or such, folded over to the back, then a photo mounted.
All depends on the look you want! |
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06/07/2006 10:15:58 PM · #24 |
Take one photo and split it into 6 or 9 sections and get each one printed out at 8x10. You can either use a very thin frame with no mat or else print them on canvas and put them back together on a wall. It's very impressive on a big blank wall.
Get a landscape shot printed pretty big and use/find/buy an old window as a frame so it looks like a window view on your wall.
Buy a garden trellis and use the little boxes to frame 4x6 prints. It works really well as a memory wall if you hang itens from it too, like shells collected on the vacation that the prints comes from.
Use clear CD cases in a line or a group collection. You can easily swap out your pics with new pics should you get bored.
Stack a bunch of framed prints on shelves instead of mounting them.
My current project is trying to do a sort of polaroid transfer of the prints onto tiles. I love trying to come up with different ideas like this!
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06/07/2006 10:25:33 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Ansel Adams had a chest-high strip of molding around the wall of his studio. He'd mount prints and just rest them on the molding...
R. |
I have something similar to this in my bedroom. We put up molding at about shoulder height all the way around the room. Then I got similarly toned frames of different shapes and sizes to randomly scatter around the room. Makes it easy to move things around and change things up. Plus I'm lazy and hate trying to line photos up when hanging them. :-) I found this photo from my PAD (not a terribly exciting one) but it kind of illustrates a little bit of what it looks like.
Here's another lame photo (this time filler for the 30-day SP challenge) but it gives a better view of how the photos are displayed
Message edited by author 2006-06-07 22:38:13.
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