The bathroom is a tricky room to hang art on the walls due to the high levels of humidity and often increased temperatures when you run a bath or shower, or just run the hot water tap each morning. You’ll know from experience; the room turns into a sauna environment quickly with condensation steaming up your mirrors (unless you use the fog-free mirror type).
Photography and framing don’t have to be two separate issues. There are tips photographers follow that capture remarkable images on camera that then can be transferred to a wall display by applying the same techniques used to capture the image to present it best in your home, office, or bedroom.
The Top 3 Photography Tips to Use for Frame Positioning
The majority of artists have the age-old problem of creating art at a faster rate than they’re able to sell them at. Chances are, if that’s you, you’ll have a range of canvas prints, perhaps even photography, all neatly stored with preservation materials ready to demo at the next gallery, trade fair or exhibition.
Anyone with artistic talent has an advantage when it comes to giving gifts of significance. Gifts that are truly appreciated, understood and respected as pieces to be treasured for life.
Your talent may be photography, or it could be with words by creating personalised poems that resonate deep or maybe pencil sketching pet portraits.
As much as mounts are important to protect paper prints in photo frames, it’s not always the case you want to use a mount board, perhaps feeling an edge-to-edge finish would better suit the photo you’re framing. It should be noted; spacers are not only suited to paper prints. They’re suitable for all types of frameable material, including needlework as the increased space can prevent mould from developing on the thread, which is sometimes referred to as thread rot.
Photography has different markets and framing for your photographs have different suppliers. Some frame suppliers cater to trades such as artist organisations; some cater to supplying framing components. Others provide the full professional framing service including PDF proofs, try before you buy options, which can include sending frame moulding profiles by post before you proceed to place an order.
Most of us are walking around with personal libraries of treasured prints on our smartphones that would make for ideal gifts. The only thing you need to figure out to get your photos from pixels to print is how to do just that, without the output becoming a pixeled mess.
Most prints are hung on the wall in a stationary position used only for display purposes. It is, after all, the whole point of hanging art and personal photos on your walls.
But, for stretched canvas prints or even shadow box frames that have deeper recesses behind the frame, those can be a good depth to give you some storage space for items behind the print.
When you’re putting your home on the market, most advice centres around depersonalisation - making your home into a space that potential buyers can imagine themselves living in. For most families, that’s going to mean swapping a lot of oversized framed family photos such as christening collage frames, wedding photos and holiday snaps.
Frames are the one thing in your home that shouldn’t be cleaned very often. Dusting, yes, but you don’t need to have your frames on your weekly cleaning schedule.
The reason is that provided they’re hung at eye level; they shouldn’t be getting fingerprints on the glazing. What they will do is accumulate dust. You can easily take care of that with a feather duster or a dry cloth.
