Highlight A Family Memory With Framed Photos

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Despite the ability to be constantly connected through technology, it can be difficult to maintain close contact with family across physical distance and the passage of time. But special people should be celebrated and good times shared; if your photographic memories are hidden away, now is the time to bring them out into the light. 

Preserving family history honors the past and takes note of special achievements and family celebrations. It’s also a wonderful way to build relationships by connecting past, present and future generations. 

Even though the tradition of an annual family reunion has lost favor, there is renewed interest in genealogy and ancestral roots. Build a lasting legacy by selecting the photographs that tell your personal story in a unique way — from the stern and formal pose of a great-grandfather to the first joyful meeting of a newborn and a grandmother, from an ancestral home in “the old country” to a contemporary holiday dinner table. 

There are no hard and fast rules to follow, but here are some suggestions:

• A photo montage for each child, from birth to graduation;

• A collection of framed photos of family members, all at the same approximate age; perhaps as infants or as high school graduates; wedding photos of different generations; or family celebrations through the years.

• Shadowboxes that include a photo and special awards or achievements; sports letters or military insignia. 
Work with a professional frame shop to find the best ways to showcase and preserve your treasured photographs. Also note on the back the names and dates of the individuals pictured so there is no question in the future about who they might be. 

Work with a professional at any of our 12 locations at Frame Warehouse. Also note on the back the names and dates of the individuals pictured so there is no question in the future about who they might be. 

Need help framing those special captured moments? The professionals at Frame Warehouse are eager to help you with your framing needs. Stop by any of our 12 locations or visit our website www.framehouse.net.

Choosing The Right Color Frame For Your Project

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Few things make a home look more inviting and friendly than art work on the walls. However, choosing the right frame, especially the right color frame, is essential for making the most of your art work. Whether you frame the piece yourself or enlist the aid of Frame Warehouse, there are a few things you’ll want to keep in mind.

Tips for choosing the right color frame for your art work

1. Don’t let the frame overpower the art. It’s easy to fall in love with a lovely frame, one that’s bright and cheery or elegantly carved. However, the frame should complement the art, not draw the eye away from it. While a bold, colorful piece can support a brightly-colored frame, most art needs something a little more subtle.

2. Choose a frame color from inside the art piece. One of the best ways to make sure that your frame works well with your art is to choose a frame color that already exists inside the art piece. It doesn’t have to be the main color, but the frame will draw out that secondary color and help both the frame and the art to “pop.”

3. When in doubt, choose black or white. Black and white complement most every type of art. If you can’t seem to find the right color for your frame, opt for black or white.

Framed art on your walls is a great way to let your personality shine in your home. Make your art look it’s best by taking a little time to choose the right color frame. Need help deciding on the right frame for your project? Stop in your local Frame Warehouse or visit our online store https://framewarehouse.net/.

Preserve Summer Fun by Framing Your Warm Weather Memories

As the weather heats up and kids get out of school, many of us will be looking for our next great vacation destination. Along with that comes lots of memories we’d like to hold on to. Here are some great ways to preserve your summer memories and display them so that you can keep them at the forefront of your mind all year round.

Create a Collage

If you take more photos than you have any idea what to do with during your summer adventures, you might consider putting together a collage, either in a specially designed collage frame or just by sticking multiple photos in a pleasing order in a large frame. These are a great way to showcase exciting multi-faceted events and vacations out in the open so you can reminisce more often.

Frame More than Pictures

You’re absolutely not limited to just photographs when it comes to keeping your summer memories alive. If you plan to take a road trip, print out a map of the ground you’ll cover and add points of interest on it for all the stops you made along the way. Frame ticket stubs or programs from fun events.

Don’t Exclude Natural Elements

If your vacation involves a lot of outdoor activities, collect some beautiful pieces of nature like seashells, driftwood, greens or flowers that you can dry, or pretty rocks and include those things in your display. Shadowbox frames are a great way to put together 3D items like these for display. Just be sure you’re not taking anything you shouldn’t from nature!

Where ever you choose to vacation and however you choose to preserve your summer memories, make sure you’re living in the moment first and foremost. For more ideas that can help keep your vacation alive all year long, check out the Frame Warehouse Facebook page.

Tips for Choosing Framed Décor for Your Business

Frames are for more than home décor. In fact, they’re a great way to give your business’ décor a finished, professional look. Here are some of our favorite tips for choosing just the right décor for your business.

1. Choose a Style that Reflects Your Business

When you’re contemplating framed décor for your business, you’ll want to opt for a style that’s reflective of your business. For techy businesses, this may mean a cleaner, more modern look. For money-based businesses with an older clientele, more traditional décor is likely ideal. Choose a style that gives customers and employees a picture of what you do and what you stand for.

2. Don’t be Afraid of Unknown Artists

Boring, generic prints by the most famous artists from history used to be the bread and butter of business décor, but no longer. Think outside the box. Look for prints by less well-known artists, and even consider original works by local artists. You may find that their style suits your tastes better than the classics, plus you can oftentimes snag a great deal. If you’ve got a high-traffic business, they may be willing to hang their works for sale in your business. It’s a win-win; you get beautiful, unique art, they get exposure and the chance to make a sale.

3. Keep in Mind Design Psychology

There’s a whole school of psychology dedicated how design influences our behavior. Use that to your advantage. Do a little research and find the best shapes, sizes, colors, and patterns to help your business space have the influence you’d hoped for on both customers and employees.

Regardless of the type of business you’re operating, the design and framed décor you choose can have a positive impact when chosen properly. For more business design ideas, follow along on our Facebook page.

Bring the Beach Home with these Framed Décor Ideas

Beachy décor is very popular, and it’s no wonder. Most people enjoy the beach, and the colors, sounds, and smells of the beach tend to be relaxing and rejuvenating. You can put lots of unexpected beachy elements in frames so that you can hang them neatly on walls and sit them on surfaces around your home, bringing all those relaxing vibes to your space. Here are some things you can include.

Shells

One of the best parts about the beach for many people is collecting shells. You can glue those shells onto painted or otherwise covered frame backings and just leave out the glass. You can also leave off the backing, glue the glass into the frame with clear adhesive, and then glue shells to the outside of the glass for a unique look. Get creative and put together little pictures from the different shells you create, or opt for one simple shell depending on the look you want to achieve.

Sea Glass Mosaics

Sea glass is another item you can collect at the beach to add to your décor. Make pretty patterns with the glass you collect on either the backing or the glass as instructed above for shells.

Beachy Family Photos

As always, your family photos are perfect for framing. Next time you head out to the beach, remember to pull out your camera and get snapshots of family and friends frolicking in the waves, the landscape, and maybe even the sunset.

There are countless ways you can bring your favorite places, like the beach, home to remind you every day of your happy place. For more ideas for incorporating your adventures into your décor, follow along on the Frame Warehouse Facebook page, and don’t forget to check back in here on the blog!

Build the Perfect Custom Family Calendar

If your family is anything like the average American family, you likely have a lot going on. There are sports practices and games, school events, and appointments that can easily get lost in the madness that is our crazy lives.

One of the simplest ways to make sure that everyone stays well informed of what events you have coming up, plus lots of other organizational items your family needs to keep track of, is with a comprehensive family calendar. You can make a personalized calendar that can help you track all the items your family needs to keep up on by using a large frame, some simple printouts or hand-drawn elements. You can use a dry erase marker to write in dates and other pertinent items.

Start with a Frame

You’ll want to start with a large frame that suits your décor so that your calendar can have a positive impact on your homes aesthetics rather than detracting from them.

Elements You May Want to Include in Your Calendar

What you add to your calendar besides a basic calendar that you write in your family’s events on will depend on your individual family. Here are some elements you may consider:

  • Chore chart
  • Meal plan
  • Grocery list
  • Detailed weekly outlook
  • To-do lists
  • Cleaning schedule

You can cover the backing of the frame with attractive paper and stick down each element where ever you’d like so that it works best for your family. Consider using different colored markers for each family member’s activities so that it’s easy to differentiate at a glance.

There are lots of organizational uses for frames. To find more ways to turn frames into family logistics tools, follow along on the Frame Warehouse Facebook page.

Perfect Summer Printables

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Ahh, summertime! It’s a time for relaxing, enjoying the weather, and outdoor fun. All that outdoor fun under the steamy sun can mean that the lovely air conditioned interiors of our homes are quite pleasant, so let’s bring a little summer inside and leave the bugs and humidity outside!

You know our favorite way to spruce up your home for the season is by hanging printables in fabulous frames. Choose a frame that accents your décor, then change out your printables and other small touches like throw pillows or other small linens for each season or event. That way, your décor is always fresh but you don’t have to spend a fortune trying to keep up with the latest trends.

Here are five of our favorite free summer printables:

  1. This subway art by Krista at While He Was Napping is perfect for the home with a current color palette that isn’t conducive to adding bright, poppy summer colors.
  2. This subway art from Eighteen25 is exactly the opposite of the first one: it’s remarkably bright, not only brining the feel of summer into your home through words, but through color.
  3. This Beach sign points the way to sun and waves. Even if the beach is 1,000 miles away, place this sign so that it points towards your favorite beach so you can think about the water when the weather warms up.
  4. These bright watercolor tropical leaves will bring an understated summery feel into almost any home!
  5. This ‘Summer Vibes’ printable by Amanda at Domestically Creative brings together pretty typography and a cute coconut drink graphic to help you remember to kick back and relax every once in a while.

Once you’ve chosen and printed your printables, all you need to do it pop them into some great Frame Warehouse frames. Check out our Facebook page for more summer décor ideas.

 

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Frames for Father’s Day

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Do you know what you’re going to get your dad, husband, grandpa, uncle, or other influential male figure for Father’s Day this year?

Men can be tough to buy for. It means that we often times fall into the same patterns when shopping for the men in our lives. For example, some people find themselves buying a ball cap or fishing tackle every single year because they know their male figure likes those, but how many ball caps could one guy really need?

This year, switch it up and get your dad a great framed gift. What framed gift could a dad possibly like, you may ask. There are plenty of framed gifts that almost any dad would love to hang, whether it be in the main living space, the bedroom, or in his office or man cave. Here are a couple ideas for things you could frame to make a unique Father’s Day gift for your dad:

  • Something Funny- If your dad has a great sense of humor, a humorous photograph of you and/or your siblings or a funny phrase in a nice handwritten typography (you can hire this process out if you’re not much of an artist) would be perfect.
  • Something Meaningful- That could be a photograph of his childhood home, his favorite vacation spot, or a long lost photograph of someone special to him.
  • Something Sporty- Frame up a shot of his favorite golf course, a photo of his favorite sports star (with bonus points for an autograph), a jersey, or some other piece of sports memorabilia (a copy of the original rules of basketball, for instance).

What kind of frame should you use to make a gift that will appeal to a dad’s taste? Here are a couple of our favorite frames for dads:

If you need help with a custom framing solution for your Father’s Day gift or for any other occasion, don’t hesitate to check out our Frame Warehouse Facebook page, and feel free to message us through there with any questions you may have!

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Have Your Sentimental Flag Custom Framed this Flag Day

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When a loved one who was a member of the armed forces passes on and receives a funeral with military honors, their next of kin generally receives a carefully folded flag from a soldier with their condolences and thanks for their loved one’s service to or sacrifice for their country.

That flag is a meaningful memento to most military families. It acts as a testament to the outstanding character of their loved one, and it symbolizes their unselfish service to their country.

What should you do with that flag after you receive it? There are a lot of options, like storing it carefully away or flying it from your flag pole at home. One of the most popular options, though, is to place the flag in a case and display it in your home.

You could simply frame the flag, or you could create a display to showcase the flag. A display may include your loved one’s other military honors, maybe a uniform or part of it, and perhaps a photograph during their time in the service. You may want to start designing your display by choosing a place for it so that you know how much space you have to work with. From there, choose items to place in the display that are meaningful to you or to your loved one.

If you need help designing a flag display or the expertise to carry out your idea for displaying your loved one’s memorial flag, please don’t hesitate to contact us through our Facebook page’s “Send Message” button, or through the contact form on our website.

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Make a Chore Chart to Keep Your Kids on Track this Summer

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Summer time during our childhoods is something so many of us get nostalgic about. There were ball games, catching fireflies, playing outside until dark, and spending time in the water. Whatever your fondest childhood memories of summer, they probably don’t include chores, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t still get done.

Most child development experts agree that it’s a good idea for kids to do chores, and studies agree. So long as chores are age appropriate and safe, they’ll likely have a positive impact on your kiddo (and on your house).

You can keep track of which chores your children are supposed to do and which they’ve already done with a handy chore chart. I’ll give you a couple ideas for creating your very own chore chart to help keep your kids on track this summer.

Printable Chore Charts

Yep, you’re right. There’s a printable for everything. There are tons of printable chore charts available online. You’ll just need to find one that works with the size of your family and the way that you assign chores. You can make one for each kid, or have a large, family-wide chore chart to track all that needs done and who needs to do it. You can make printable charts reusable by placing them in a frame under glass and using dry erase markers to fill them in.

Design Your Own

Using the dry erase markers on glass over a framed chore chart can still be done if you’re making your own. You can use a computer program to design one (there are even templates available in some software), or you can hand-draw your family’s chore chart.

More on Frames for Organization

If you’d like to get more ideas for how to organize your home and life using frames, take a look at our Frame Warehouse Facebook page, and don’t forget to follow along on the blog!

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