If you are waiting on receiving your family portraits from your photographer, this might be the best time to start figuring where you’re going to place them. And we’ve got suggestions.
A Portrait Wall
One of the best ways in which you can display your favorite family portraits in one place, where you and other people can return, time and again, to look at them, is a dedicated wall. Just one. Make sure this wall is nicely painted and that the color doesn’t off-set your portraits’ borders. If, for example, this wall is white, your frames should be of a darker color—black or brown, for instance. White on white won’t work. If the wall is a darker shade, you can go for white frames and so on.
Be Creative
If you have decided to go forward with the one wall suggestion, remember that you can always get creative and have some fun with it. You can go the traditional route and have all the portraits arranged in a symmetrical, orderly fashion. Or you can go haphazard, making your own patterns and opting for a more disorderly, artsy look. All frames can be the same size—or some can be big, while others, smaller. It’s your wall—and your choice.
Shelves
If you have a spare wall that is mostly empty but also has some drawers or other furniture against it, you can make use of it to display your family portraits. What you can do is utilize the part of the wall that’s empty, such as the part of the wall that is high above the bench or couch. Set up one or two shelves running parallel, and display your portraits standing slanted on them. It makes for a very different, unique, even rustic look that immediately grabs attention.
In the Bedroom
This option, of course, is for more intimate photos. Did you know that Prince Albert had a portrait of Queen Victoria in his bedroom, right where he could look at it? For larger portraits of family members who are closer to you and whose faces you’d like to see before you drift off to sleep, the bed-chamber is ideal. Your spouse, children, parents, all can be right with you in there on those gloomy nights, looking at you from inside photographs. It would almost be like those talking, moving paintings you saw in the Harry Potter movies.
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