Tuesday, February 12, 2013

An Idea for Displaying Your Vintage Photo Collection

Every once in a while someone will leave me a comment asking what I do with my vintage photo collection and I always respond with some idea and a promise that I'll post pictures of what I do. I've been meaning to post about it for MONTHS,  so today I'm going to finally show you one way I display my collection! 
I had been collecting for a while and just had my photos in a cute box, and a few on my fridge. I loved looking through them but wanted to display them. I tried finding cute vintage frames for a while but I wasn't finding stuff I liked and old photos are in such a variety of sizes. Then I had an epiphany standing in the craft store one day and bought a few shadowboxes! This wall isn't finished (obviously) but this will give you an idea!
(This wall is opposite of a big window, so I couldn't get a straight on photo without glare, no matter how hard I tried,)
My favorite are the boxes that you can put multiple pictures in. They are really easy to switch out as well. I actually haven't updated these in a while, I have some new awesome pictures that I need to put up! This wall is devoted to my vintage photos with dogs in them, since they are the bulk of my collection. I want to go up pretty high on this wall, I'm a gallery wall kind of girl.
 I love this doggy chalk board. A few pieces from my dog figurine collection are displayed on the ledges created by the frames.
 Even a picture that is a little ripped can be displayed this way. 
 That single photo of the two ladies is one of my favorite in my collection! 
 I like this big frame the best, I want to get a few more like it. Maybe I should have straightened things out before I took pictures. Oops! Embarrassingly I bought these frames probably two years ago! Then never got around to buying more. I'll make it a goal to finish this wall up in the next month or two. Shadowboxes can be a little expensive so wait for the half off sales or use those coupons! I'll show you the other way I display my collection sometime soon!
And of course I need to include the best part of my dog collection!

4 comments:

  1. I have never seen frames like that and love them, plus those doggie figurines are great. If only I could get the vet budged under controll Id really like to start decorating my house more

    urban hounds

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  2. shadow boxes is an inspired idea for photo displays! it's looking really good, and i really like the red dado rail, but not as much as those cute wee pugs x

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  3. Oh, you know I love seein your house. Bless your heart!
    I put cute dolls and small toys in shadow boxes around the house. My kids probably find me a cruel temptress, ha ha!

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  4. adorable! We have a couple of shadow box framed things too, we put the pretty straight pins in the corners of the pieces that are in there. Such a cute idea

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