Turning Vacation Photos into a Home Art Gallery
Home Gallery of Travel Photography – Cartagena, Colombia; Chiang Mai, Thailand Todos Santos, Mexico
I by no means lay claim to being a professional (or amateur for that matter) photographer or an interior decorator. However, I do have an eye for design with a bit of an artistic vein running through my body. I’m also quite frugal. Design and frugality don’t always work well together. But creativity and frugality I think are an ideal match.
Home Gallery of Travel Photography – Bamberg, Germany
We love to travel and spend most of our hard earned money visiting new places, seeing new sights, and eating different foods. This leaves the house account in our monthly budget pretty sparse for buy art to spruce up our walls. One afternoon, I came across a bunch of old frames in our attic and had an idea. Why don’t I fill them with photos from our vacations? I know the pictures were only taken with a point and shoot camera, but they can’t be that bad. I had COSTCO blow a few photos up and pretty soon our front entrance way was decorated with a gallery of photos from our trips to Germany, Austria, Thailand, Colombia, and Mexico. A couple of months later, Groupon had a deal for metal prints and we had a few photos from our trip to Costa Rica printed to add to our collection.
Metal Print from Groupon – Capturing a Costa Rican Sunset in our Modern Bathroom
How do you incorporate memories of your travels into everyday life?
I love it! I do something very similar . . . I have a wall arrangement of 8×11 vacation photos in clipless frames. I call it my “Postcard Wall”. I keep the arrangement the same size, and rotate new photos in and retire older ones to an album. Salud!!
What are clipless frames?
My apologies . . . I’ve always called them clipless frames, turns out they are Clip Frames. They look like this: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/151915-REG/MCS_558119_Clip_Frame_8_5x11.html They are uber-cheap and you can get them at Michael’s. I can send you a pic of my postcard wall so you can get a better idea if you’d like . . . just let me know.
Great idea! Personal photos are my favorite way to decorate!
Thanks for passing along the photo of another unique way to decorate with photos! I might have to use that idea for our Italy photos.
I was thinking of a “vacation” calendar… but this is way better. Good job!
Calendars work, too! Or photo books from Shutterfly. I think I will start doing more of those.