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Cool, classy way to display pictures in room?

I recently went on a 3 month mission's trip to Thailand and the Philippines and came back with lots of great portraits of the people I met and some of the things I saw. My room is brown (with white and teal accents) so I am getting sepia prints made of my favorite pictures and I want to display them in a pretty way (my room has a bit of an elegant yet young and fun feel to it)...but so far all the nice frames and matting will be really pricey to do more than a couple. Does anyone have any ideas of a way to display about a dozen pictures in a nice way for not a ton of money (preferably under $20-30). [also, I really love the classy look of sepia/black and white prints matted with white matting in a flat frame, but I don't know if I can do that on my budget so something similar would be sweet too. I don't know]

Public Comments

1. Who says you have to mat and frame them? I have a few of my photos just matted to a thick piece of cardboard (cut the same size as the photo) with some photo-friendly, acid-free glue and then get some super cheap, little metal photo hangers to stick on the back and then just hang them on the wall. Another thing you can do is clothes-pin hang them. Same principle as the above suggestion, matting them to thick cardboard, but instead of hanging them on the wall, you use clothes-pins to hang them from scarves/rope/twine that's draped across your ceiling and walls! Super cute and super cheap!
2. found a couple of websites that might help, try a 2nd hand store for frames. I bet you could find some really cool ones and very cheap too! hop this helps http://www.thepicturewallcompany.com/?gclid=CISU393ryZoCFQwxawodwiyx1g http://www.curbly.com/alttext/posts/74-easy-photo-wall-on-a-shoestring-er-wire-budget http://www.potterybarn.com/gift/thm/thmhtd/index.cfm