You don’t need the help of interior designers to create the perfect wall display in your home. A little bit of creative imagination, experimentation, and playing around with different layouts can be truly transformational. Make the most of the space you have with creative wall display ideas to personalise your space and make your home your own.
5 Ideas to Display More of Your Photos Creatively
Picture ledges
These are handy for putting under larger frames hung on the wall. You could have a large multi-photo frame taking centre stage, then directly beneath it, a picture ledge with multiple single photos printed and framed in 7” x 5” or 8” x 6” frames. Some of the photos could be displayed overlapping, some leaning against the wall, and perhaps display some other mementos like trinket boxes, and small souvenirs that pair with the photos, helping to give the curation of photos a narrative.
Ledges and shelves are ideal for those who like to change their displays frequently because the only DIY involved is installing the shelving. There’s far less commitment to a display arrangement when you have the shelf space for sitting and leaning frames than you would if you were to be hanging them.
Split Prints
Large-format prints can be split to create several smaller-sized canvas prints. These work best with simple images of landscapes and similar scenic shots. Once printed, they’re displayed together with just two to three images of spacing between each canvas print to show a multi-panel display. To add visual appeal to the display, consider using canvas floating frames to give the illusion of each panel floating inside the frame.
Collage Frames
You don’t need an app to make a photo collage. Framers have design templates to help you frame multiple pictures in a singular frame with a cohesive layout and without much fussing around with resizing and cropping images to make them fit into weirdly shaped apertures. Traditional collage frames such as the ones we do at The Picture Gallery follow a uniform size with each photo in the collection being the same size and having equal spacing between apertures. The benefit of keeping with standard sizes in traditional rectangles or squares for photos is that you get more display space than you would if you were to try to fit pictures into heart-shaped apertures, balloons, or hearts.
Photo clocks
Having rows of similar-shaped photo frames can feel monotonous. To break the monotony, there’s a wide variety of photo clock styles that could be perfect for changing the shapes on a gallery wall. Given the sizes of the attached frames are fairly small, they’re perfect for all those selfies that aren’t quite as worthy of a large frame and hordes of dedicated wall space. These are ideal for the fun snaps of kids pulling funny faces, the family pets, and the up-close smiles.
Mix and Match Styles
Photo displays don’t need to be entirely collections of photos. For more visual appeal and interest, mix and match your photos with other items that you need space for. As an example, if you have photo ledges, use those for bookshelves. You could have several small frames on display with themed bookends, colourful bookbinding, and perhaps some ornamentals. Space out several shelves around a piece of furniture like a study desk or a side table, and you could have a few shelves with space between them for standard size picture frames of 11” x 14” or 8” x 10”, then on the furniture, just use some casual photo holders for the photos that you’re likely to change periodically.