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Helpful Hints for Displaying Family Photographs In Your Home

By Autumn Lockwood

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Published: 13Apr2011
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A comfortable place where everyone in the family can work, rest, and play - that's what we all want from our homes, right? A place where all family members can retreat to and get away from the outside world to recharge and be ready to go again - a family home. Anyone who crosses the threshold of your home should feel welcomed and relaxed. A tidy home is not necessarily a perfect home; signs of real life make a house a real home, so let there be a little bit of chaos.

Creating a family home can be a constantly evolving thing. Especially if there are small children in the home, it will evolve with the constantly changing needs of those who live in it.

Putting together an attractive place that all grow to love is what creating a family home is all about. It also has to be functional and have the ability to accommodate the daily life of its occupants.

Every house has its own distinct character that shows the personalities and interests of the family that lives inside of it. Whether you live in a house or an apartment, you can create a family home with some useful ideas and tips. Let them inspire you, and give them your own personality and style!

Tips and Ideas for Displaying Family Photos

The character of your family is often expressed in photographs and the unique picture frames displaying them. The frames help to show off pictures that share happy memories and help to record your family history.

Often, snapshots are the best photographs of family and when displayed in a simple collage picture frame format it makes for an effective way to remember a special event or family gathering.

Rather than placing family photographs throughout all of the rooms in your home, turn one specific wall into a family gallery and hang all your family photographs together. A staircase is most often a great place for a family gallery, or a hallway - both of these spaces usually have the largest expanse of wall space making them ideal.

A photograph gallery can be made more unified by restricting it to a certain theme, such as all school pictures or all old sepia pictures of family going back generations. Frame photographs of family members that encompasses several generations in all black and white. The timeless appeal of black and white allows old and new pictures to hang together cohesively. Select simple, unfussy picture frames so that they won't detract from the pictures themselves.

Don't be hesitant to frame your children's artwork - you'd be amazed at what a sheet of glass and a nice colorful picture frame can do to a child's painting or drawing!

A family home is informal, and an informal way to display photographs and pictures is to simply prop them up on a shelf.

Many professional decorators or interior designers might say that this is one of those "never do" things, but you're not creating a model home here, so go ahead and cover your refrigerator door with photographs of family and friends. This type of display is ever-changing and can help young children to recognize and keep the bonds going with friends and family that they may not see too often.

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