Can I add to an existing wall gallery?
Each month we answer a question from one of you. This month, one of our families wants to know if they can add to last year’s wall gallery, or if they need to take it down and start over with a…
Personalizing Your Child’s Space: An Interview with Homeworks Etc
I recently had the privilege of photographing the family of Homework’s Etc Kids owner Jacqueline De’ath. Homeworks Etc. offers wall décor for nursery and kids rooms including wood letters, growth charts, wall hooks and much more! Like displaying family photographs on…
How Big Should I Frame My Family Photographs?
By far the most common question we’re asked is… how big should I frame my family photographs? The answer? Likely bigger than you think. How Big Should I Frame My Family Photographs? As a general rule of thumb, you want your…
Announcing our new Wall Gallery Design Service!
Announcing our new Wall Gallery Design Service! We’ve been asked countless times over the years to help you design wall galleries filled with memories from years past. After a long few months trying to figure out the perfect way to offer…
Family Photographs in the Kitchen
Think wall galleries only belong over your fireplace or sofa? While living rooms are the most popular spot for a wall gallery, it’s certainly not the only room we design for. It’s one of the reasons we do an in-home planning…
Creating a Wall Gallery – The Difference Between Primary and Secondary Wall Galleries
We talk a lot about displaying photographs and creating a wall gallery, but we don’t always define exactly what those terms mean. A wall gallery is an arrangement of frames on your wall and the photographs that fill those frames. Creating…
The Power of Family Portraits
In the editor’s letter of the Dwell magazine March issue, Editor-in-Chief Amanda Dameron writes about the power of interior design. Interior design is about manifesting comfort and pleasure in an environment sheltered from the world at large. It’s about summoning the…
Strengthening the Parent-Child Bond
The Globe and Mail article ‘The Disintegration of the Parent-Child Bond’ has been getting a lot of buzz since it was published yesterday. And while I agree with the author on the importance of a strong parent-child bond, I’m not sure…
On Choosing Your Adornment
Deciding on the perfect frames, figuring out how you’re going to arrange them and choosing the photographs to fill them is important (obviously for us, since it’s what we’ve built our entire family portrait experience around). But those are the technical…