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A cool way to display pictures atr home?

I have a ton of pictures and i want to put them up somehow in our apartment, but i dont want a million picture frames in each room. what is a creative way to hang them?

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1. The best way to do that is the buy one or two big frames and make a colage of pictures together in your hallway or somewhere. That always looks nice.
2. My favorite way to hang my millions of pictures is to get several different and intricate frames of different textures and sizes, paint them all the same color, and then arrange them in a square or rectagle on the wall, fitting them together like puzzle pieces with, say, and inch in between each frame. That way you get a bunch of cool pictures up there, and a bunch of cool frames, but one cohesive shape that the eye's drawn to. This way, you don't have to take up the whole wall with frames. Also, at some specialty photo shops and online you can get your photos printed on awesome things like canvas, coasters, puzzles, coffee mugs, magnets etc. My house is full of photo-ed things. For your smaller photos, you can get one of those frames that has the matting for several different small photos. One frame- like ten photos. My roommate stretched a thing tweed chord accross her bedroom wall and used wooden clothespins to hang her photos from it. Its so country-chic and cost her like $2!
3. tape some on the wall or you could get stick your picture in ur mirror. u could buy a big picture frame and put all ur pictures in that big picture frame!!!!!
4. Build or buy a photo room divider screen..... they are so simple to make........ Make a huge wall display..... Buy a big poster frame...... some poster board.... and an exacto knife........ You can create your own "mat" and custom make your photo display.
5. My favorite way is to mount the pictures on 'Correx' board. Correx is like corrugated cardboard, but made out of plastic. Its very light and stiff, available in lots of colours (the colour doesn't matter here as you won't see the Correx) and thicknesses, and is cheap. I get mine from a local sign maker that saves all his offcuts for me, but it's not expensive to buy. First I cut the Correx to the sizes I want (a little smaller than your prints), then use brown paper tape to hide the edges, paint the edges. I usually paint mine matt black as it's neutral, but you can use a colour that matches your decor, cheap emulsion is perfect for this and you can get 'samplers' at most supermarkets for free. Stick your pics to the Correx with White (PVA) glue, place a heavy book or some such on top while it dries to keep it flat, and trim the edges flush. You end up with a collection of 'tiles' that are very light and stiff, which you can arrange on your wall as groups, or random, the space around the 'tile' becomes the frame. To fasten them to the wall I use self adhesive 'Velcro' pads or tape, another way if your wall is sound is to knock panel pins into the wall leaving them proud by 1/4" or so then snip off the heads with wire cutters to leave a semi sharp point. Then 'impale' the tile onto that, but the Velcro is easier. The 'picture tiles' are so light the Velcro holds them firmly. The advantages of this system are, you can change the pictures easily (though the Velcro pads may mark your wall) is cheap, but most of all it's very effective. Mixing sizes and shapes and thicknesses can make the display really eye catching. Chris
6. An there is the current solution of storing the images digitally and displaying them on one of the electronic frames that will hold hundreds of pictures. As an alternative, if you have a flat screen display or TV, you could assemble the pictures into a screensaver or various folders for a slide or make collages to show in a slide show. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a program that takes pictures and displays them collage style changing one picture at a time. http://picture-collage.qarchive.org/shareware.html http://www.bluechillies.com/list/picture-frame-collage.html
7. Mount them on foam core or hard board. Run fishing line, steel cable or hemp cord across the wall from hooks that will keep it out a few inches from the wall. Do 2 or 3 lines per wall. Use clothes pens or different types of clips to clip the photos to. Run lines across the room just below the ceiling with prints on both sides of the mounting board. Hang a few negative strips in there too. Go to a home center or hardware store and shop.