Ideas to create a family portrait gallery?
I want to create a family portrait gallery for my dining room. The wall is a dark red. I want to blow up real pictures in black and white or colour and have them put on canvas, but I am not certain the best frames. I have thought of using old gold frames to mimic and old fashioned gallery.. any other ideas?
I have a rule of thumb????? I put all the black and white photographs in the clip frames and hang together in my office (a lot) in my house. The halls are packed with the Dax frames from Hobby Lobby in 4×6,5×7 and 8×10…(probably about 200 from my grandparents, parents, children as children and now themselves parents and all the grandchildren…informal shots)….then in the living room go all the formal portraits of weddings, graduation from college and med school, etc. which are formally framed….in dining room is a collection of crosses given to me by the kids through the years (of course my good art work is everywhere in the house). If you want to put family portraits in dining room, I suggests the (can’t think of the proper word) brownish to off white replicas of the originals all framed alike. If you choose black and white always use black frames with white matting. I wouldn’t suggest colors in family pictures in the formal dining room as they would be too distracting with china, etc……and they are too informal unless you have a country dining room….enough of my opinion…….good luck…LOVE FAMILY PICS
Try this website. It’s a bunch of different ideas for framing pictures. http://www.bhg.com/bhg/slideshow/slideShow.jhtml?slideid=/templatedata/bhg/slideshow/data/SSHangingWallArrangements_03152005.xml
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I would suggest with the dark red wall, a black frame and black and white pictures, ion a white canvas.
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I have a rule of thumb????? I put all the black and white photographs in the clip frames and hang together in my office (a lot) in my house. The halls are packed with the Dax frames from Hobby Lobby in 4×6,5×7 and 8×10…(probably about 200 from my grandparents, parents, children as children and now themselves parents and all the grandchildren…informal shots)….then in the living room go all the formal portraits of weddings, graduation from college and med school, etc. which are formally framed….in dining room is a collection of crosses given to me by the kids through the years (of course my good art work is everywhere in the house). If you want to put family portraits in dining room, I suggests the (can’t think of the proper word) brownish to off white replicas of the originals all framed alike. If you choose black and white always use black frames with white matting. I wouldn’t suggest colors in family pictures in the formal dining room as they would be too distracting with china, etc……and they are too informal unless you have a country dining room….enough of my opinion…….good luck…LOVE FAMILY PICS
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