A photograph is only as beautiful as the final display, and one of our specialties here at Irene Abdou Photography is creating heirloom-quality photographic artwork that perfectly fits your existing home and style. All of our Washington DC portrait and wedding photography clients receive a complimentary design consultation, in which we help you visualize how you can best display your gorgeous photographs in your home. Walk around your home and pick out a few walls that you might like to hang some portraits on. Sometimes you might not be sure which wall is best, and that’s OK! We’re here to help you answer that exact question. So pick out any wall that’s a possibility (we recommend the living room and family room, or any 1st floor room that you spend a significant amount of time in), send us photos of the rooms together with a few measurements, and I’ll be able to show you what your favorite photographs will look like on your walls at different sizes and layouts.
Take this case study of a living room, which we’ve decorated with wedding photography from Jocelyn & Jules’s Baltimore wedding. Most living rooms will include a sofa, and most of the time, the sofa will be placed against a wall. In our case study, we’ve got a sofa that’s 95 inches (nearly 8 feet) long, which makes for a pretty big wall space behind it. So you can imagine that placing a single 8×10 photograph on this wall would look quite silly. That single 8×10 photograph is TINY compared to the wall! So when working with large areas, try placing multiple photographs next to each other in a layout to create a “photo wall.” In this case, eight 8×10 photographs do the trick.
Are you wishing that your bare walls be gone?
Now, if you don’t want to place so many photographs on the walls, then let’s look at option #2. In this next example, we’re still working with nearly the same image size – these are 8×12 photographs instead of 8x10s, and they’re matted in two multi-open mats and framed with red-black frames. Even though only 6 photographs are used compared to the 8 in the previous example, the mats/frames make the photographs appear larger to the eye, and the artwork as a whole fits the large wall space better.
However, in both of these two examples, notice how small the faces are in the photographs and imagine how difficult it is to see the faces in the photos from across the room. So although these two series of images do fill the space, neither is necessarily the best way to enjoy your beautiful photographs!
So let’s look at option #3, which is to move up in print size. In the example below, four 12×18 size photographs are laid out and fill the space perfectly. The images pictured here (just like in option #1) are frameless, which is a more contemporary option than framed images (option #2). There are multiple ways to print/mount frameless images, such as: a) printing on metal with the sheet of metal floating off the wall; b) printing on canvas with the canvas wrapping around a stretcher frame (canvas gallery wraps); c) print wraps; d) printing on photographic paper and mounting as standouts; and e) printing on photographic paper and mounting on bamboo.
Following along on the canvas example, option #4 is a canvas cluster, which is a series of individual canvas gallery wraps, placed together on a single wall in a pre-designed layout. The overall length of this particular canvas cluster – including the space between each canvas gallery wrap – is 72×28. The largest individual piece (middle) is 18×28, and the smallest piece (left) is 10×10.
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