I mentioned that my dad got married two weeks ago and I still have photos to show from the wedding. But the few weeks before the wedding, we put together a wall gallery for their stairway area. Dawn and my dad have been together for eight years. My boys were 3 and 5. Dawn has a neice and nephew on her side who both have kids and my sister Nicole has her daughter and then my three boys. One side of the stairway needed to be Dawn’s family and the other wall, my family. And they didn’t want the traditional stair-stepping structure that is typical of wall galleries along the stairs.
These prints are all done on 1/4″ white foam board and hung with Command, Velcro strips. I spaced the images 2″ apart from each other on all sides. Not dealing with frames and nails made it so much easier and they can easily be changed out with updated images. The walls for this display are really high with tall windows above the images. The sizes range from 20×24′s down to 8×12′s. The long skinny ones are 10×30′s and 10×20′s.
It’s really important when ordering images to know what size area you are considering. You may never hang the pictures up if you ordered a random smattering of 8×10′s and 11×14′s or bought frames to put the images in before you even had the images (I am guilty of this… i have a lot of random frames tucked away over here). While a 20×24 sounds enormous, it really isn’t. And when you have large prints that are thought out and placed with smaller prints in a preplanned design, the finished product comes together beautifully.
I love putting together custom wall displays for my clients. It’s especially helpful when I can see the space as well either through a photo or in person. There are just so many great combinations that can be put together.
Ok… here are the images from my dad’s stairway.
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This looks fabulous Alison!! Such a great wall gallery, and I love the modern look with them being unframed and mounted like this. you did such a great job with this.
WOW! Alison, this looks AMAZING!!
GORGEOUS, Alison! The design and photos are both amazing–what a cool wall display!
Alison, this arrangement is fantastic. Like sticks in your head all day kind of fantastic. You are so talented.
margie
Oh how I would LOVE to have a photo wall like this one – it is amazing! I just love that there are no frames on them, a very clean look
I love it! I’ve been looking for an idea like this for above the beds in my daughters’ room. I wanted something light without frames in case the girls ever bumped them off the wall. I have a few questions. What kind of foam board did you use and where did you have them printed? Also, I checked out the 3M Command site, but didn’t see the Velcro strips. Do you think the adhesive mounting products they have would work too?
The adhesive mounting strips work but if you want them to easily come off the wall, make sure they are command. But you can get the velcro ones at Target, Rite Aid and I think I saw them at Home Depot. As for the foam board, my pro lab has an option for foam board. But you can get adhesive foam board online I am sure. But I am sure there is a place where they will do the mounting. I have one locally that does it as well.
Alison
Hi,
Thank you for sharing. This is beautiful. Perfect!
Where do you go to get the pictures blown up like that?
Appreciate you time,
Terri Syktich
LOVE, love, love this idea!!! Pure. Genius.
Would you mind if I linked to this from my blog as a feature on ‘real walls’?