I am not a fan of wall photographs unless they look artistic. In other words, stray away from the school portraits and mixed snapshots. I love the look of black & white photos of close-ups or landscapes, and framed all the same way if possible.

This is the extent of what wall portraits I have of my children.lol

This is our family gallery wall.

New home builder - this is off the subject but what color is your granite? it looks like mine and I am having a terrible time find a backsplash I like that doesn't have a pinkish cast to it.
Thank you supermom for the photo.

Anyone else?

Here is ours, but please forgive its unfinished state! The outer mahogany 'frame' will be stained darker, the picture frames will contain some different photos and they will be displayed in a better arrangement (some hanging, some on the shelves and some overlapping). I will also probably paint the back of the inside of the 'frame' a darker color.

This photo wall is in a long hallway that leads to the master bedroom. I often pause in passing to look at photos of family and friends, and I know DH does the same. Recalling happy memories or the smile of our little grandson makes a pleasant beginning or end to the day!

Here's mine, it's in a walk-through/sitting room area between the LR and DR.

However, I have a teeny tiny section of my kid's pictures in a corner in the LR, these in the photo is the whole extended family.

This is from the hall in our last house. I had vintage photos and current color photos, so worked with it for a while to get a nice design. I did edit significantly so I didn't have dozens of images tow work with -- I never would have gotten anything hung if that were the case! I found that the best way to handle it was to work from an imaginary outside "border" to the inside. It allows different frame sizes and styles to have a cohesiveness, even if the spacing between frames might vary. I moved them around on the floor until I got the layout I wanted. It just so happened that the modern photos went in a diagonal across the center, which was a pleasant surprise.

The current house just doesn't lend itself to a similar display, so everyone is boxed up :(

I have the Deluxe Wall Gallery from Red Envelope and just love it. I wish I had room for all the gallery frames.

Here is a link that might be useful: Red Envelope Gallery Frames

I'm doing the walls in between my two girls' rooms as a family wall. It's a work in progress as I need to print out more pictures, but I'm happy so far. There are mostly pictures of the girls with a smattering of some other family pictures (wedding photos, favorite cousins). Also, with the exception of a couple of photos, they're all candids I took myself and had printed in black and white. I aslo printed some of the pics on canvas board (very cheap to do at ProPics) for more variation.

There are some other elements in my house that are very square, symmetrical, and perfect, so I want this wall to have a more organic feel. I'm varying the size and type of frame (and purposely choosing some frames that are thicker and project off the wall more). To unify the pictures, all the frames will be black, and all the prints are black and white.

Wall thus far (daughter's face obscured)

Shot where you can see the frame variation better (sorry about the open coffee bar!)

Angle shot where you can see that the depth of the pictures are varied. I think Pottery Barn sells frames that actually mount several inches off the wall, but I haven't checked into that:

Momtoreese - love your photos! Did you do the matts yourself or buy them that way? Also, I didn't see the canvas ones, which ones are they? Love the coffee bar.

Thanks, Joanie! With the exception of my bridal portrait which was professionally framed, I just bought "off the shelf" mats from Michael's Craft Store.

If you look at the bottom picture, the two pictures that don't have a mat are on canvas board. You can see the canvas texture up close, and they're not framed behind glass. I got those on a special ProPics was running - like $4.95 each including the wood frame!

Here's mine:

I have a hallway that I am thinking about putting framed
pictures on. Similar to Manolo's design below... Since I
do not have a photo of what I plan to do, here are
some ideas.

Enjoy.
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A few years ago I bought a large digital photo frame. They can be ordered with custom frames to match your decor. It is a great way to display all the digital photos that are "trapped" in your computer! I saw it a friend's house and had to have one. The company is photovu.com. They are expensive but a great way to display the photos. Whenever we have people over they always end up standing in front of the "picture" watching the photos scroll through. We will be moving this summer and once we get settled I plan to buy a second one to hang in portrait orientation. The current one is in landscape orientation and when it shows portrait photos they get reduced for the height and you get black bars showing on the sides. By having each frame for a different orientation all the photos will be shown full size.

mom2-3boys - I have New Venetian gold and also had the same problem finding something without the pink. I had wanted tumbled stone, but they are all pinkish and when you added the protective coating, they got even pinker!

I finally found something for the backsplash but never got around to having it installed. lol It's called Ambra Ecru by Magica

Here is a link that might be useful: Ambra Ecru

Thanks for the info about pro pics! I'll check it out.

We did a photo wall in varying white frames, different sizes. My husband took our favorite pictures and "redid" them in a sepia tone. It turned out neat. We have since taken it down since we are moving - sigh.

I have smaller wall displays, but this sounds like what you're looking for--pretty much a direct copy from a Pottery Barn catalog layout.
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I just scanned my favorite pictures, matted them and spray painted all my frames in black matte.

This is in the hallway from my master bed to master bath - the pictures are of just me and my husband.

Thank you to you all!!! Now I have something to go on :)
I guess black and whites are the way to go. I'll post picture when I'm done if I ever figure out how to!

krisfl,

Your display is very nice, it looks so soft and understated; not too much! Beautiful!!

Another Black and White fan:

Thank you twotogo! I was pretty happy with how it turned out. The frames were all different colors that I had from my last house and I painted them all black. I am thinking of doing something similar in a "public" hallway that would include all of my family.

Does anyone have a pic of black frames used with color photos?
This is what I'm thinking about doing but I'm wondering if a lot of the appeal is in the black and white photos and how they all work together.