Enlargements. Whats on your walls?

[handicap18]

I was just curious what you guys do for and with any enlargements you make of your own photos. Disney and non-Disney photos.

We recently put an addition on the house and that has left lots of room for me to finally have a "photo gallery" in the house. I've had 3 or 4 8x12's without a home for the last 3 years. I took these back in my travel days in the early 90's. And a few others that were made into 5x7's.

From my last Disney trip I made 6 8x12's and 9 5x7's. Years back I really didn't put much into the frames. Now I have the 8x12's matted in 12x16" frames and the 5x7's matted in 8x10" frames. Most of the Disney ones are going to be hung in the kids playroom. I also have a whole stairway that will be filled with pic's in the years to come.

I also usually set the kids up a few times a year to take some unofficial official photos which are to be hung on the wall. One thing I was able to do that I've always wanted to was take the walls in the hall around the kids bedrooms and convert it into photo walls. I have various sized pictures and collage frames filled with pics going back many many years and even a few generations. The kids love looking at them and its always nice to just wander by get an extra smile from seeing them.

 

[Miller1412]

I display enlargements on those 24" shelves that are in Pottery Barn catalogs (except I buy the ones from Target...much cheaper )
I have framed enlargements all over my built in bookshelves and hanging on the walls everywhere.

A couple of years ago, I bought a great frame from Pottery Barn that is a collage type frame. It holds an 8 x 10, 2 5 x7's, 6 4x6's, and 8 4x4's. It's huge and hanging over the couch but it looks great and I have our Vermont Pond photos in it.

I also am a sucker for photo books and have them on my coffee tables.

 

[fitzperry]

As far as photos are concerned, we have sort of a gallery wall in our family room that is all b&w photos in black frames. Most of them lean on picture ledges that my dad made, and a few are hung on the wall. They include a large portrait that a pro photographer friend took of the 4 of us last winter, along with two fabulous 5x7's that she took of the kids, all of which we spent a small fortune framing only to have the kids knock the big one down with a ball (at the moment, the replacement print is leaning there waiting to go to the frame shop). There's also a newborn pic of dd#1 and a few snapshots, including one of dd#1 at WDW. In that room, we also have b&w prints of my parents when they were kids and my mom's parents' jazz band, which I really love.

There are studio portraits of the kids hanging on the wall by the stairs, and upstairs we have a long hallway that I am filling with photos, again in black frames, mostly vacation prints as well as some more great shots by my friend. I also enlarged a couple of pics of dd#1 from our most recent beach trip and put them in our downstairs hallway in some cool frames I got at Pottery Barn (dark wood with linen mats that complement the beach scenes nicely). Those are near some pics I took years ago in the Canadian Rockies and some cool antique looking postcards that I got on Grand Cayman and framed. And I have several more 8x10's of the kids waiting to be framed that I'll probably hang in the basement stairway (which is open to the first floor). I tell you, by the time my kids are in high school, I won't have a square foot of empty wall space.

Oh, and in our master bath, I have the risque pics of the kids --one of dd#1 when she was about 4 or 5 months old, wrapped in a towel and sitting in an white ironstone wash basin (one of those standard studio pics), and one of dd#2 when she was about 2yo lounging in a chair in our family room wearing nothing but snow boots (all her own doing, I might add).

 

[OCSurfCity]

Since I am a sports photographer, I have quite a few images of professional sporting events from college/NFL football, Surfing, MLB and even boating.

But I love scenic shots of the beach, Hawaii, Las Vegas and of the mountains. As an example, I have one of a waterfall I took that makes people feel soothing and relaxed.

Other than that, I have one wall I use only for images of family and friends. Most of my deceased loved ones pictures are up to remind me of them when they were younger.

 

[blackjackdelta]

I have mainly landscape and lighthouse photo's. I love the ocean and the beach where there are no people, maybe an ocassional surf fisherman, waterfalls and the forest streams.

Jack

 

[RadioNate]

On my family room wall I have a Pottery Barn style gallery of snapshots. I really need to update the photos!

the look is similar to this but all my frames are square collage frames.

Then in the hallway I have shots that are blown up anywhere from 5x7 to 16x20 and mounted frameless on foam board. I have some resting on gallery shelves and others hung with mirror clips. Those are mostly landscape shots from the places we've lived. I got a decent shot of Cinderella's Castle last week at WDW so I think I'll add that one.