Five ways to display your photos at home…

My name is Cass and I take too many photos. 😁

Actually, that’s a lie because I don’t actually think it’s possible to take too many photos! 

I just love taking photos to capture a moment or a memory and if that means that I have thousands of photos then so be it! I think it started when the kids were little and my life went a bit mad when I lost my brother and my mam within 12 months. 

I woke up one day and really missed my mam especially and I couldn’t remember her voice. Like I could remember some of the conversations we had but it felt like something was missing when I played it back in my head as I couldn’t remember how she said it. I got out the big box of family photos out and had a few tears as I sat on the floor and looked through them all and the photos made me remember. 

Right then, I made a conscious decision to take more photos right then so if ever something happened to me, my children would have memories to look back at when they forgot my voice. 

It turned out that I actually loved taking photos and as much as they’re never very good, the better technology gets, the better my photos get. Phone cameras these days are so amazing that I rarely get my big fancy camera out but when I do, I love the feel of it in my hands and the view I get through the lens. 

I like to print out as many photos as I can because photos should be seen and not left on your camera roll where you’ll see them and smile but only if you’re scrolling through them. 

There are lots of sites out there who offer you free photo prints when you sign up with them and some companies (I use Snapfish at the moment) who give you a set number of prints each month. I currently print out 50 a month and just pay for postage which is a couple of pounds so well worth it to get 50 prints a month.

It’s just the small size that you get though so I often get a couple printed in a larger size to frame although I’m currently probably at max capacity for photo frames in our house so the next ones I get will probably need to be rotated with some photos that are already framed. 

There’s loads of ways to display your photos at home but I thought I’d share a few that work for me…

Print and Frame

This is the obvious one, right? 

Just print out your favourites using an online photo site, your own printer at home or even one of the little photo printers in your local supermarket. Buy some frames and display them wherever you want. 

I decided to go black for my photo frames and bought some random frames from charity shops which were either black or I spray painted them black to make them all match even though they were different designs. I wanted them to be random and not uniform but having them the same colour pulls them all together. 

I have most of them around our bay window in the dining room and a few on the windowsill in our living room. 

In our dining room, I’ve also got one of those multi-print frames on the wall with lots of pictures in there – I got a bargain from B&Q as the frame was scratched but it made no difference to me as I was planning to spray paint it black anyway. 

Choose a theme for a photo wall

I love a good wing shot when we go on holiday so a few years ago, I printed out the photos from my favourite holidays and framed them. I used a label maker to label each picture with the destination and then hung them all together.

I loved them and even now, we all still take a wing shot picture whenever we’re on a plane. 

I left these in my old house when I moved out but they’re still one of my favourite displays ever of my photos. 

Be Creative

This one is a work in progress so I’ll not share the full picture yet but I couldn’t not mention it in a post about displaying photos. 

This is a really special car from my partner’s past and we wanted to frame it but had an idea to frame it in a set of three pictures that didn’t look quite right together. 

So we thought we would upload it to the Chat GPT app and ask it to turn our photo into a sketch. 

It looks brilliant and allows us to do something a bit different to make the pictures we want to display more cohesive!

Replace artwork with your own photos

What do you have hanging above the headboard in your bedroom? Or above your settee in the front room? 

I bet you have a piece of artwork. 

I replaced the picture we had above our bed with a few pictures of places that mean a lot to us. 

They’re all personal to us for one reason or another and I love them so much more than a random picture of a vase of flowers or whatever it was we had up there before. 

Go Digital 

We have an Amazon Alexa in one room and a Google Nest in another and both are linked to our phones so they will play rotate through our favourite photos in a loop. It’s not the prettiest or most creative way to display photos but I can add photos to the loop whenever I want and it does mean that so many photos are loaded up and rotated through – we’ve set it to 30 seconds per photo.

You can do the same with digital photo frames too which you can pick up a lot cheaper than an Alexa or Google Nest model with a display screen and you can get them with larger displays too which I like the sound of and probably would have done if I didn’t already have the Nest and my partner didn’t have the Alexa already when we combined houses. 😁

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