Hi there! Today I am excited to share a video of five super simple ways to display more family photos in your home. In the past, before we had Nova, I struggled to put many photos of us around our home. We did have a few, but not a bunch. I can already tell I will never have that struggle again—haha. I want to wallpaper my house in her cute little face!
This post is sponsored by our longtime partner, Canon USA. I used the PIXMA IP8720 to print my photos and I highly recommend this printer (along with the luster paper!). I use it all the time! If you ever want to print large, it goes up to 13×19 inches.
My bookshelves in our living room are full of special memories, both objects and photos. My mom made this painting of my grandmother and I decided to put Nova’s ballerina image next to it because my grandmother is obsessed with that photo. Living far away from our family isn’t easy a lot of days, so filling up our space with memories means so much to me!
As much as I love art prints (and I love them A LOT), I do think that personal photos are essential to a cozy space. These remind me how much we’ve been through together, and that is so special! I think it’s worth it to throw a couple weird photos (i.e. not just professional portraits) into your mix—it’s always a conversation starter when we have guests!
I hope you enjoy this quick video and I’d love to hear what YOUR goals and plans are for adding more family photos to your space!
xx – Elsie
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I love these ideas, Elsie! I like the look of photographs in bookshelves – unfortunately, my books already fill mine to the brim (need to declutter pronto!) 🙂
Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog
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Awe thank you so much!!!
My current printer prints 13×19 but I can only feed on page at a time, does this printer work the same way or could I print a stack fo 13×19 pages at once?
You can have more than one piece of paper ready to go in the tray…. is that what you mean? It’s super easy to use!
xx
For each kid around three months old I lay them on my gteat grandmother’s quilt and snap a pic of them then print them 8 by 11, I hang them in white matted pictures frames. They mean the world to me. The first was taken with a crappy phone, the second a better phone 🙂 and the last two professional camera. I have four boys and love looking at their pics around our house. Nothing crazy fancy but they look great and personal in modern frames.
How sweet!!!
Aww, Nova looks adorable! Such great ideas, and really sweet!
Love these ideas Elsie. You are just amazing. x
These are all such lovely ideas, and really make me want to print off some more of my photos and actually display them more!
– Natalie
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Love all of these ideas! That clip one is genius. I have so many of those around my house!
xo
Kristina
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Very adorable 🙂
The ideas are so beautiful and simple, thanks for sharing them!
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Thank you!!!
Love these ideas! Little Nova is so cute! xx
Zoë | https://zoe-ware.blogspot.ca
Clip idea is genius! Thank you 🙂
love the video. great ideas. i just got some adorable copper clips… will definitely be using them to display photos now!
Hooray! xx
I love these ideas! I got that printer for Christmas and I am still trying to learn all of its amazing uses. What program do you use to make the square grid of photos? I feel like I could probably do it with Canva, but would love to know what size you print off and how you do it! Thanks for the fun ideas always:)
I use photoshop to resize all my images and then I put them on a new file that is 13×19 (the size of the big paper) and 300dpi. xx
Thanks, Elsie!
Great ideas! I stage a lot of properties and it is nice to see some more creative ways to display pictures and objects. Very nice!
Love it!!
I recognized your mom’s work as I scrolled down, because she painted portraits of my daughters a few years ago. She does amazing work! I LOVE the picture of your grandmother, and the fact that you keep it close to Nova’s photo. Memories and loved ones. My favorite things!!