Organizing Framed Photos

[PollyannaMom]

I have a lot more photos in frames than I can display at one time, and right now, they're not very organized at all - just in random boxes with other knick-knacks. Does anyone else rotate items like this, and if so, how do you store them??

 

[Meriweather]

Sorry.....I don't store or rotate.
They are all hanging......most down one long hallway and some on the stairway and more in the foyer.

If I was going to store them if would probably be in a plastic bin and then in a closet

 

[slo]

I have a lot more photos in frames than I can display at one time, and right now, they're not very organized at all - just in random boxes with other knick-knacks. Does anyone else rotate items like this, and if so, how do you store them??

Most of my frames are on the wall (if you ever want hanging tips message me - I was a professional picture framer for 25 years)

In regards to storing them…..make sure you wrap your frames in tissue paper or a thin cloth (cut up some old sheets if you have them) and make sure they are face to face or back to back so any hangers or easels on the back of the frames don’t scratch or leave a dent in the front.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

What about a multi picture frame or creating a collage of sorts? You are so creative, my friend, I'm sure would make either look just great

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Like others have suggested, I try to make use of my wall space first and foremost to keep surfaces clear. (I can only think of three tabletop photos in the whole house, actually.) I try to keep like items together to give it some cohesion. I’ve also implemented limitations on what I’ll frame to try to stop it from getting out of control. For example, my pets each get one nice photo of themselves in an 8x10 and one collage frame that holds another 10-12 of my favorites taken over the course of their lives. The pictures of the pets who are no longer with us are hanging in a spare room and our current pets will hang, once I get them done, in the hallway of family photos. Pets on one side, kids on the other. Each kid has a section of wall saved for their photos. By the time they’re adults, each section will have a 16x20 frame of their newborn photos surrounded by 18 10x10s — one favorite picture from each year. We have about 50 of our favorite travel photos framed in thin 8x10 frames clustered over our living room couch, and as more come along in the future they’ll have to be swapped out. A collection of wedding photos is on another shorter wall in the living room. I have a spot for kids’ artwork to hang in “storage frames” so it can be rotated. At Christmas, we have a tree decorated with framed Christmas photos. Everything else is relegated to photo albums or Facebook memories.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

We downsized & no longer have room for all of our framed photos. We've decided to put them on digital photo frames with the photos constantly changing. We're going to have four frames on one wall. One will have photos of our parents, along with a few leftover photos of our immediate family. Another will have photos of my sisters & their families. (DH is an only child.) The third & fourth will have photos of DH & my ancestors. We'll also have framed photos of our immediate family throughout the house.

 

[PollyannaMom]

What about a multi picture frame or creating a collage of sorts?

I do have a few collage ones on the wall, but I'm mostly talking about the smaller easel frames (5x7, 4x6, odd little sizes...) that I put out on a few shelves, but take down when holiday decorations are displayed there.

I have quite a few, partly because I take a lot of pictures, but partly because many of the frames themselves are interesting ones I've picked up over the years. What usually happens is the spots get too crowded, I take everything down before a holiday, and then don't put them all back after. -The others end up in tissue paper in a mixed box labeled "down for Christmas" under a bed or something.

I think I want to gather them in one spot, divide them up by months or seasons, and be more intentional about switching them out throughout the year.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Do you have a place where you could make a gallery wall?

 

[mom2rtk]

I put some away in our Christmas decoration bins when the Christmas stuff comes out then back out when we take it all down.

Mostly I have been taking photos out of the frames and adding them to my scrapbooks.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I adore photos too A few years ago I was at a friend's home and saw a very cool frame with changing photos, I think it's called Aura. This friend shared that her adult kids got together and got her this device because the entire family has an app and so each of her children can randomly upload & share new photos of the grandkids. My family got me one while the kids were in college and there is nothing nicer than looking over and seeing a new image. Since many of my old photos are regular pictures that I would just see when I sat with the books I just went through and took digital images of my old photos to add them to the mix and now I have a seemingly endless series of nice photos, it's my favorite gadget.