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Any strict, discreet interior can be made cozy and individual by placing photographs on the wall. This technique allows you to always remember warm, joyful moments thanks to photographs that give the house a special cozy atmosphere. For some interiors, you can buy a frame, insert a photo into it and hang it on the wall. But in most cases, it is necessary to create some special, original decor that could complement the interior of a suitable room.
Thanks to modern technologies, it is possible to implement any unusual and daring projects that previously seemed out of reach. Pictures can be of different sizes from the smallest to huge full-length posters, they can be combined symmetrically, parallelly, proportionally, scattered - by any suitable method.
Advice The thought-out layout of the photo on the wall must first be captured on paper. This way you can choose an idea from the created combinations.
Photos of the interior of the room
Properly designed photos in decorative frames, or in a special way, can not only harmoniously fit into a certain interior style of the room, but also greatly improve its visual effects. Just like when arranging the interior decoration of a room, decorating with photographs has its own nuances and features.
A variety of photographs are suitable for wall decoration
Before you determine the format of the photo composition, as well as choose this or that style, you need to decide on the location of the photos. In this case, you need to be guided by some principles:
- The dynamism of the photo should correspond to the type of room. For example, wedding or dating photos of a married couple would be appropriate to place in the bedroom, but pictures of the whole family spending time on a picnic would be more successful to hang in the hallway of your home.
- Lighting plays a big role in the interior of a room with a photo wall. Light and sunny photographs should be placed on a well-lit side of the wall, while evening and more romantic ones can be placed in a dark corner of your apartment.
- The family tree and portraits of your ancestors are best placed in the hallway or on the wall of the staircase.
Favorite pictures on the wall in the kitchen dining area
In addition to those listed above, there are many more rules for arranging photographs with or without frames, taking into account the style of the interior, the color scheme of the room and lighting.
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How to decorate a room with photographs
There are photographs in every room. The main thing is the correct placement of the photo in terms of the size and interior of the room.
Cabinet
In the office, photos are placed on the wall - strict formatting, classic design. Don't use color or quantity of images. Too many photos in the office distract from your work.
Hallway and corridor
Pictures inside frames will enliven the atmosphere of the hallway, harmoniously complement its image and attract the main attention.
Along the stairs
Using plain photo frames located approximately on the same line, you can decorate the wall along the stairs. Such an exhibition will undoubtedly be one of the best decor ideas.
Bedroom
The photo to decorate the bedroom should contain positive and happy moments. According to Feng Shui, family, wedding or love-filled photographs are ideal for wall decoration.
Children's room
To decorate a nursery, photographs depicting the child himself, both in strict classic frames and with the most unusual bright frame, are suitable.
Various experiments and decoration ideas will look very original here, for example, an exhibition of photographs demonstrating the gradual maturation of a child, from a toddler to a teenager.
Kitchen
Photos hanging on the wall in the kitchen interior will become an elegant and modern decoration that will delight the eye and create favorable conditions for staying in this room.
Living room
The living room or hall is a place for family photos. Collect photos with the same subject or style, complement them with black and white photos and place them on a bare wall. A room with such a composition looks very modest.
Another good place in the living room is above the sofa, and if it's in a corner, place a photo on either side of the corner of the room.
Features of photo placement
As has already become clear, there are certain requirements for posting photographs. Let's try to figure it out in more detail.
Bright composition lifts your spirits
Important. Depending on the interior style of the room, the style of photographs and the choice of frames will vary greatly.
An interesting idea for decorating a watch with family photos
Manner is the dynamics, the mood of the person (people) captured in the photo. Also the clothes the character is wearing, his occupation, etc.
See also: Photo design
Classic
For a classic style in the interior, more strict photos of events are selected. People in such photos should be dressed in formal suits. The design of the wall in this case should also be in compliance with strict lines and shapes. Impressiveness and smoothness are inappropriate here. The colors of the frames can be different: white, black, gray and all shades of natural wood are suitable. The passe-partout is selected depending on the chosen frame.
Photos framed like paintings look good in a classic style.
Photos in gilded frames in a classic-style living room
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Provence
Photos taken in nature, in fields or meadows, in the forest are suitable for French Provence. On the wall, such a composition is best placed within a dark shape, since Provence implies soft tones. This will create a clear accent. The photo collage can be diluted with various still lifes depicting fruits or flowers. In relation to Provence, blue-pink-violet lavender is perfect for decorating a wall with family photographs.
You can place a small mirror in the center of the composition
Favorite pictures framed in different sizes on the bedroom wall
A family tree can be successfully placed on a soft pink wall. This is done in the form of a pattern connecting the hung photographs. To give a special charm to the collage, it is decorated with additional decorative elements or, in our case, completed with drawings. These can be fluttering butterflies, birds, or simply lines depicted in bizarre convolutions and shapes.
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Loft
The loft style is characterized by a rough interior and simplicity of finishing, or rather the lack thereof. On a wall made of red polished brick, a good option would be to arrange photo cards without frames on a stretched rope. The photo format should be in Polaroid style.
String and clothespins are perhaps the easiest way to effectively display photos.
In the lower or upper part of the wall (niche), you can make lighting with a soft white glow. This way your photos will look against the backdrop of the illuminated aura behind them.
Collage of photographs from different years on a brick wall in a bedroom
The order of the photo cards can be of any shape. The main feature is the relationship between the chosen style and the events reflected in the photo.
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Photo placement options
The most common option for arranging photos on the wall is to enclose each photo in a separate frame. But now there are a lot of exclusive and extraordinary ways of arranging family props to match the home interior.
Photos without frames on the wall of the stairwell
Symmetrical composition above the sofa in the living room
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Random order
In this case, the photo is hung without frames. The mutual placement of such a collage can be of different shapes. It all depends on the event and the design of the surrounding interior. For example, a love story is shaped like a heart. But photo cards that remind you of the arrival of a small child in your family are placed on the wall with additional attributes in keeping with the theme of the event (decorative elements in the form of wooden patterns on the wall of various shapes).
Pictures without frames in the shape of a heart on the wall of a children's room
This composition can be changed at least every day
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Mounting method
It can be as simple as using double-sided tape or a nail on a dowel. Or maybe an original combined one.
Why not use shelves to display photos?
Framed photographs do not need to be mounted on the wall, but simply placed on the floor.
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Collage layout location
This is usually a straight wall. But besides an ordinary wall, it can be a corner of the room, decorated with photographs on both sides; a wardrobe that is part of the overall composition or completes the photo story with a large print on the entire door facade. Flowing background from floor to wall, or from wall to ceiling.
Beautiful and useful corner
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A combination of different ways to frame photo cards
From the usual photo frame in the interior, with a mat around the perimeter, to designer carved wooden frames, decorated with precious materials. In modern styles, frames made of metal, glass and plastic have become very popular.
Use different frames and try different combinations
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Contrast of large and small photos
This effect creates a certain charm that has a beneficial effect on a person’s worldview. At the same time, a large collage format should be made for portraits and close-up photos. Small photos complement the overall picture. In order not to overcrowd the wall with events, diluting images and details are used. This role is played by flower arrangements, wooden shelves matching the color of the interior, on which, along with candles and vases, your photos are installed.
It is convenient to look at photographs if the composition is located at eye level
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Photos on the pendant
For hanging, make a large frame. A cork sheet is placed inside. A collage of small photographs is secured with stationery pins. If you additionally tighten the rope or fishing line, the photo is attached to clothespins (stationery, clothespins). This design is well suited to loft and minimalist styles.
Photos in frames, suspended on laces and pushpins
Photos in retro frames hanging on clothespins
Photos are attached to the wall in different ways. Attach the frame by twisting it thoroughly, and attach the photographs themselves to the frame without the risk of damaging them.
Selecting photographs
Where can I get photos suitable for printing? Yes, everything is simple - there are so many of them on the computer and on the phone of each of us. There are both amateur photographs and professional ones from photo shoots. The latter will be more preferable, since their quality is higher - you can easily print a large photo, and everything is in order with the colors, sharpness and idea. However, the quality of amateur photos has grown greatly recently, as has the culture of photography. Any budget modern smartphone takes photos that can be printed on posters - the resolution will be sufficient. And if your hands grow from the right place, then all the photos for the apartment can be taken on a smartphone. But that's not what we're talking about now.
Photos for printing can be searched not only in the family photo archive:
- take a look at photo banks , there are tens of thousands of photos collected by theme, color and idea. You can combine one or more of these stock photos with personal ones. For example, you decorate the wall with pictures from your winter vacation. Remember that the human eye is always more interested in looking at diverse shots , but as luck would have it, everywhere you see only you in full view on skis. Look on photo banks for pictures of skis with beautifully flying snow, mountain peaks or icy pine trees. This way you can accurately convey the atmosphere of your vacation, since many details simply do not fall into the lens;
- The photographs of famous photographers are often so beautiful that, like paintings by artists, you want to look at them and look at them. You can definitely find such photos on the Internet. Why not hang them in your living room?
Photo frames
When arranging a collage with ordinary frames, you need to additionally use a passe-partout. This is ordinary colored cardboard with no middle part. The photograph is placed in it.
Black frames convey rigor and graphics, white frames convey sophistication and grace.
In addition, the use of picture frames is interesting. In this case, the photos get a volumetric effect. This is achieved by the absence of borders around the perimeter, that is, the image flows onto the wall. This frame format is often used for composite photographs, the image of which is divided into several frames.
The wooden frame and the photograph hang separately, but form an overall composition
The most remarkable and memorable wall designs are created thanks to the people in the frame, and a little due to the skill of the photographer. Seasoning such collages with decorative elements, hand-carved patterns, and painted walls are the main components of a successful solution. Accents are appropriate here. Decorative clocks, in harmony with a cascade of photographs, wooden shelves with flower vases, and other unusual items of interior decoration of your apartment - all this can be very successfully played with material from your family album.
Live life to the fullest, create moments by capturing them on camera film; and then, on one of the warm winter evenings, remember those moments of happiness experienced together with your family over a cup of hot chocolate. Create with us!
When decorating a wall, you can “go outside the box”
