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Across the UK, more and more homeowners are taking advantage of their garden space as an affordable way to add an extra room to their property.

When you flick your gallery app on your phone, you would be forgiven for thinking that many of the photos wouldn’t make a good print. They rarely are. To get high-resolution print quality photos, the shots should be taken with intention. That requires planning.

Planning a funeral when emotions are in turmoil is one of the most difficult life experiences. Funeral directors offer tremendous guidance throughout but loved ones still have to do the hardest work with preparing the materials.

The coast must be one of the favourite destinations Brits head for when brighter days arrive. A similar atmosphere can be created in any room, indoors or in garden rooms with the addition of coastal artwork.

When researching framing options, you will come across terms being used that you might not be used to. Particularly if you take to framer forums, Facebook groups, or pop into your local framing store.

You’ll have heard it before. Keep your prints out of direct sunlight. Every piece of advice you’ll ever read about photo preservation includes the line. For those without the knowledge of why photodegradation happens, you may be tempted to throw caution to the wind and hang your prints wherever you feel based on the thinking of – what’s the worst that can happen.

Your picture, or that scene shown in it, is worth a million dollars or may even be priceless to you and your family. So, the next step is…how to show that priceless moment, one so awesome you captured it in time. You must frame it of course, but with what? Is gold good enough for the capture of your newborn; is baroque brilliant enough for the first kiss on the beach?

Despite the rise in cloud storage and photo sharing online, there is still a market for photo printing. Granted, it is not as thriving as it once was, but it is still around and is being leveraged by thousands of people.

Artwork, photos, and items of sentimental value are framed from protection. Once the items are in the frame, the job is considered to be done, and the frame is hung to display them.