Show off your work in your living room with photo frames or photo wallpaper

Thursday 4 April 2019, 16:32 by Marije Weterings | 6,634 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

There is nothing better than being able to admire your own photos. You can leave them gathering dust on your hard drive, but it is even better to be able to admire them every day. And how great is it to show them to your guests?

I am currently in the middle of moving house. I have bought a house in another city where I have space for my own office. So I am now very busy styling and furnishing my new living room and office. With photos, of course!

While visiting various homeware shops for inspiration on what is currently modern in terms of styling, I was particularly drawn to black-and-white photos of film stars in frames and photos mounted on the wall in perspex. Another product that caught my eye was photo wallpaper.

Photo wallpaper

The trendiest way to display your photos is to use photo wallpaper. At the interior designer Danielle Verhelst, I found this beautiful photo wallpaper with blossom:

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Photo source: Danielle Verhelst
Even better, of course, is putting your own photo on your wall. I found a website where you can upload your own photos and have them printed as photo wallpaper.

You can choose to have it printed in strips or as one single piece, so that only part of your wall gets an accent. Trendy choices I saw recurring here included a dreamy forest in your kitchen or a beautiful landscape in your bedroom.

Or, if you like the industrial style, a black-and-white photo of New York, for example. You can naturally select the colours in your post-processing to match your living room, or bedroom, exactly.

Framing black-and-white photos

The black-and-white photos of film stars are great to recreate yourself, but with photos of your own children, for example. Or old photos of your family. The photo of James Dean below is of course beautiful, but displaying your own work is much cooler.

For this kind of post-processing, choose an orange filter and high contrast. An example of one of my works framed in this way could look like this.

Develop your plan with a mood board

Using Pinterest, I create a mood board and, based on a number of examples that fit the style of my interior or my styling plans, I select my final choice.

As I am still in the middle of renovating, I cannot show you the end result yet, but soon I will take and post a few photos of what my new living room and bedroom look like. I am choosing a combination of posters and photo wallpaper.

I would love to know what you would choose.
Good luck with renovating and photographing!

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Marije van Eersel staat voor gevoel, creativiteit, passie en contact. Haar stijl laat zich omschrijven als chic, artistiek, hip en persoonlijk. Ze is gespecialiseerd in mode, reclame en bedrijfsfotografie en geeft tevens workshops en masterclasses reclamefotografie en interieurfotografie.

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