One of my favorite things about having photos displayed in our home is being able to remember little things about my family and how we’ve grown and changed just by walking through a room. About six months ago we moved and the house we live in now doesn’t have as much wall space as the one we left, so many of the things I had printed and up in our old house are stored away until we move again in about 18 months. However, in a wonderful trade off, this house has tons of windows and light so I’m snapping away with lots of new material to print and fill our future walls. This tiny little room I’m sharing is sort of an office or den space in between two bedrooms. It may be small, but we walk through it many times through the day, and its right by the boy’s bedroom so it ends up being a place where I help them get ready for school, or read a book before bed and more often then not fold the never ending laundry, so its a great place to have some of our favorite memories out.
First, over the daybed, there are about 50 5×5 prints, mostly from the 52 on fridays project from 2010. I initially printed about 100 5x5s, so these can be changed out when ever I have a new favorite to add. I love that they move around and it seems like a new one always catches my eye when I’m in here. I like to have lots of images of our families who are pretty far away so that their faces can still be a familiar in our home! The boys love looking through these and remembering where we were when they were taken.
To the left of the room, there is a small built in bookcase, I’m constantly on the look out for new items that represent a trip or a cherished family member to keep here. There are small art work pieces here we’ve found different places, a few cherished baby items from when the boys were tiny, and some practical items that are used lots, like a current knitting project and our laptop. I also have a 24×36 gallery wrapped canvas of my youngest, Sam on the bottom shelf and the matching 24×36 canvas of his brother Gabe is on a small wall area next to the doorway. I love how canvas adds texture to a photograph, and I love these two images of my boys, I still remember the day I took those! These were printed from WHCC as were all of the other prints in this room.
On the top shelf, two 12×12 standouts live side by side, these are older images of the boys when they were ‘babies’ and these have already lived a couple of different places in our new house, and I’m not sure this is their final home either! There are also a few albums and an 11×14 framed print that live on these shelves too.
One our our most cherished albums is the 10×8 album from Loktah that holds some of my favorite images from our family session with Raye Law. I love the textural feel to the paper on the pages in this album and especially the handmade cover. I’ve been using Loktah with my clients for a couple of years and adore all their products. There are also a couple of 5×5 albums from Finao that hold some of my favorite sessions that I’ve shot with my boys. I think albums are a wonderful way to display a session, especially if you don’t have tons of space to hang larger prints. If you keep them out like ours are, they get a tons of viewing and its nice to be able to have so many images from the same session all displayed.
The last thing I picked to photograph is the the print box, also from Loktah. It holds between 400-500 5x7s and I haven’t quite filled it up yet. Even though this images are tucked away out of site, I feel like they do get seen when we have friends and family over and this little system helps me feel like I have some extra security against losing the digital version of our family favorites since its easy to send off a few prints at a time with a client order and not have to worry about where they’ll be displayed. I like to print the ones that go in this little box with the white border, it looks like it may be time for a new box soon!
Thank you Wendy for letting my share my cozy little space on your blog! I love clicking through all the talented photographers you’ve featured and seeing all the different ways they’ve used photographs in their homes! I know just where I’ll be looking for inspiration when we move again and have new walls to fill!
Love, love the 5 x 5 photo wall! So cool. You will have to share how you made that! Also, a great idea to print and stick in an image box!
I’m convinced I need to get a huge photobox like yours! Love it!
this beautiful home is just what I imagined it would be Gretchen! love the Lotkah box, Im going to need to start doing that ASAP. and PS. I STILL remember that snowcone photo and I still love it just as much!
love it all, especially the albums!!
Love!!!! Did you make the daybed?!
i love this series! thanks for sharing!!!
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now i wish we had managed to find our way around portland enough to knock on your door, instead of meeting in the aisle of REI lol. you have a beautiful artful home, just as I knew you would. Such fun and fabulous ideas. I love loktah also…. simply delicious. Thanks for having us over. 🙂
Adore all the hanging 5×5’s and interchangeable-ness of all of them. And the albums, TDF. I big puffy heart your home and all that scrumptious color.
absolutely gorgeous! <3
I knew I would love Gretchen’s home, and I do! Filled with color and art and joy!
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goodness! love your space! and adore your art!!
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what kind of metal string & hangers & where could I get them for my photos?
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