I am so excited to kick off this project with the amazingly talented and oh so generous Joyce Smith of Joyce Smith Photography. It takes a brave and organized soul to be the first guest blogger. Thank you, Joyce!
I believe in the importance of seeing images you LOVE–the ones that really make your heart sing–on the walls of your home. So many people are concerned that they will seem narcissistic if they hang images of their family, to which I say, why hang botanical illustrations and not those you love? I don’t understand the quandary there at all. LOL! Still others are worried that they will chose “the wrong ones” to enlarge. Just go with your heart . . . the images that jump out at you first are usually the right ones.
One of my favorite images ever! : ) This is a 24×36 canvas mounted on masonite and framed in our eat-in kitchen. It features Meredith around age 3 playing at her kitchen. It looks much lovelier in person than this sad photo in the no-natural-light kitchen indicates. LOL
This is the small entryway to our home–front door is seen here. It’s a 10×20 standout of Meredith playing on the swings outside. I love finding the perfect size for even small spaces and like to show these examples to clients who feel they simply don’t have enough wall space.
Formal dining room with a 20×30 gallery-wrapped canvas. This is my favorite size for the walls.
Upstairs in our master bedroom is another example of a small print in a small space. The image behind Buttercup the dog in the upper right is an 11×14, framed with no mat. As you can see, the space is only about 20 inches wide or so. It can be viewed closely as one passes through the bedroom into the bathroom on the left. I always remind clients to think of two things when deciding on size–the size of the wall where the image will be, and where YOU will be when viewing it. The rest of our master is still a work in progress with many mounted prints and canvases left unhung. A cautionary tale–don’t let this happen to you! : )
Downstairs again in our small hallway. This is a 16×24 gallery-wrapped canvas and it makes me smile every time I see it!! It also makes me laugh to see such an angelic pose when the dog is barking like crazy at night. : )
Another 16×24 canvas in our dining room corner, over a secretary. The dog barked at this canvas of her nemesis for three days after I hung it. True story.
One more doggy canvas. This is a 20×30 in the kitchen next to the pantry and over the garbage and recycling cans. Why not? Who doesn’t need something to make them smile while doing the most mundane of tasks? This used to be at my studio before I’d had many dog clients, so it moved home eventually.
Thanks, Joyce!
Come back tomorrow for more display inspiration!
joyce! your home is beautiful and your art is perfect! I love how thoughtfully you selected and hung each piece. I especially love how you have so many of your beloved pets. I know if my mom sees these, she will ask me to replace all the images of her grandchildren with images of her dogs.
thanks for sharing this wonderful inspiration, wendy! xoxo
Thanks for sharing Joyce & Wendy! Joyce, I love that picture of your daughter playing in her kitchen. Thanks for the inspiration!
So in love with this project and Joyce, SO in love with all of your images and displays and your home. That Corgi pup melts my heart.
Beautiful Joyce! Such wonderful images and display choices! Thanks for this inspiring series Wendy!
I love this! Simple and lovely, Joyce
Wow, such beautiful artwork on your walls, Joyce! Thanks so much for sharing this with us, Wendy!
beautiful!! i will look forward to this month at wenderful…
love this Wendy! January is going to be a fun month!
exciting!!!! Thanks Wendy for creating this heartening project. It’s such a wonderful opportunity to gather inspiration from fellow photographers and gain a greater appreciation for the ‘record keeping’ aspects of photography.
Joyce, you have some beautiful canvases and images. so much fun!!
So beautiful Joyce! Love it
What great inspiration, thanks Wendy!
found you on bloom forum – love these
Thank you Wendy & everyone for the kind words!!
Love everything about this!
these are perfect!!! love!
I love the simplicity of these! And the whimsical photos are gorgeous!
Joyce, your home is just beautiful and I adore the softness and simpleness of your image placements, so subtle with such a HUGE impact!!!!
I love this project Wendy! The dog laughing at the cat image cracked me up! And I adore that first one in the eat in kitchen!
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LOVE this!!!! Joyce’s images are gorgeous and it totally makes me want to hang more canvasses in my home
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[...] One of my favorite things about having photos displayed in our home is being able to remember little things about my family and how we’ve grown and changed just by walking through a room. About six months ago we moved and the house we live in now doesn’t have as much wall space as the one we left, so many of the things I had printed and up in our old house are stored away until we move again in about 18 months. However, in a wonderful trade off, this house has tons of windows and light so I’m snapping away with lots of new material to print and fill our future walls. This tiny little room I’m sharing is sort of an office or den space in between two bedrooms. It may be small, but we walk through it many times through the day, and its right by the boy’s bedroom so it ends up being a place where I help them get ready for school, or read a book before bed and more often then not fold the never ending laundry, so its a great place to have some of our favorite memories out. First, over the daybed, there are about 50 5×5 prints, mostly from the 52 on fridays project from 2010. I initially printed about 100 5x5s, so these can be changed out when ever I have a new favorite to add. I love that they move around and it seems like a new one always catches my eye when I’m in here. I like to have lots of images of our families who are pretty far away so that their faces can still be a familiar in our home! The boys love looking through these and remembering where we were when they were taken. To the left of the room, there is a small built in bookcase, I’m constantly on the look out for new items that represent a trip or a cherished family member to keep here. There are small art work pieces here we’ve found different places, a few cherished baby items from when the boys were tiny, and some practical items that are used lots, like a current knitting project and our laptop. I also have a 24×36 gallery wrapped canvas of my youngest, Sam on the bottom shelf and the matching 24×36 canvas of his brother Gabe is on a small wall area next to the doorway. I love how canvas adds texture to a photograph, and I love these two images of my boys, I still remember the day I took those! These were printed from WHCC as were all of the other prints in this room. On the top shelf, two 12×12 standouts live side by side, these are older images of the boys when they were ‘babies’ and these have already lived a couple of different places in our new house, and I’m not sure this is their final home either! There are also a few albums and an 11×14 framed print that live on these shelves too. One our our most cherished albums is the 10×8 album from Loktah that holds some of my favorite images from our family session with Raye Law. I love the textural feel to the paper on the pages in this album and especially the handmade cover. I’ve been using Loktah with my clients for a couple of years and adore all their products. There are also a couple of 5×5 albums from Finao that hold some of my favorite sessions that I’ve shot with my boys. I think albums are a wonderful way to display a session, especially if you don’t have tons of space to hang larger prints. If you keep them out like ours are, they get a tons of viewing and its nice to be able to have so many images from the same session all displayed. The last thing I picked to photograph is the the print box, also from Loktah. It holds between 400-500 5x7s and I haven’t quite filled it up yet. Even though this images are tucked away out of site, I feel like they do get seen when we have friends and family over and this little system helps me feel like I have some extra security against losing the digital version of our family favorites since its easy to send off a few prints at a time with a client order and not have to worry about where they’ll be displayed. I like to print the ones that go in this little box with the white border, it looks like it may be time for a new box soon! Thank you Wendy for letting my share my cozy little space on your blog! I love clicking through all the talented photographers you’ve featured and seeing all the different ways they’ve used photographs in their homes! I know just where I’ll be looking for inspiration when we move again and have new walls to fill! Thanks, Gretchen! Stay tuned tomorrow for a fabulous giveaway! AND If you’ve missed any of my guest bloggers for this project, you can find the right here: Joyce Smith [...]
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