Photos on Display

January 14, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

I am embarrassed to admit this to you, but I don’t have many pictures hanging on my walls. Crazy, right??  I think one of my problems is that I have too many images that I love, and I just don’t know where to start. If I put them all on display, then we would basically wallpaper every wall with pictures. Unless I’m missing out on some new trend, I’m pretty sure that’s not the cutting edge of home decor.

I decided to tackle the long empty wall in our kitchen first. I knew I wanted my theme for the wall to be “family”. I also decided on all black and white images because a) I love BW! and b) I wanted the focus to be on the people and relationships in the photos without the competition of a lot of different colors. I designed my layout in Photoshop and set about to the most difficult task of the entire project: picking the photos.

Here is the layout I designed:

And here is the finished product:

I can’t tell you how happy this wall makes me. We enjoy looking at these images every time we eat a meal. It makes the kitchen seem ‘finished’ now that the walls are bare no more, and it makes our house feel like a home.

Do you struggle with how to display your portraits? or do you have wall galleries that even Pottery Barn would envy? If you are in the latter category, send me some inspiration photos!

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