Creative Picture Framing Ideas to Transform Your Walls

Jd Institute

March 7, 2023
5 min read
Art, Life, Productivity

Picture Framing Ideas for Walls: Transforming Your Space with Creativity

If framing you thought was about taking a picture or photograph and mounting it on a rectangular or a square frame to hang up on a wall, think again. Nothing could be far from the truth if you go by the variety and ingeniousness of picture frame ideas that people have come up with. There are the usual themes that people follow and there are plenty of out-of-the-box décor ideas that can be applied. All it takes is stretching a bit of your imagination and creativity. What could be designed on paper, can well be put on the wall! Besides, there is plenty of scope for mixing and matching. However, it is important to have a theme or two in mind to serve as guidelines, to plan what goes up on a particular wall. We need to ask – what will blend in with the rest of the room décor, or for that matter complement the décor styles in that room, or create a dramatic accent wall? Whatever it is, excitement awaits!

1 - Identical Frames

2 – Same Frame in Different Sizes

Identical frames: This is the most commonly used plan and the simplest way to execute a plan. Here identical frames are used to mount a variety of photographs or artworks and they go up on the wall adjacent to each other – horizontally or vertically. This is a good idea when your pictures are similar in size and shape, or otherwise. The uniformity of the frames makes the display into a cohesive whole.

Again, using the same, identical frames but hung using hoops attached to the photo frames which are mounted on wall hooks. Creates and rustic, countryside look. A new way to display prints and photos.

Same dark frame coming in a variety of sizes and carefully laid out to look like a complete set. It is like a collection from the same batch on a gallery wall. It gives a break from a monotonous display, yet remain harmonious. It’s also easier to keep adding to the gallery, by keeping the size and frame look similar and fill up the next space is available for the add-on to look a part of your gallery.

3 – Different Frames in The Same Colour

You can use different sizes and shapes of frames and put your pictures on display, but the colour of the frames remains the same, again to look like they belong to the same batch. Could be any frame colour light or dark shades and hues. Using a nice vibrant orange colour for all the frames, here creates a dramatic effect. Or they could be in different shades of the same colour. A pretty picture indeed.

Other than artworks and prints, using a collection of display plates and crockery that belong to the same set, or made from the same material, we can make them look connected to each other. This, even when coming in different sizes and designs. This concept can make an eye-catching gallery wall.

4. A Combination of Colours

A combination of neutral colours is always easy to work with as other colours can easily sit with the neutrals. The darker frames providing a nice contrast. Or one may pick other colours and match them in a way that they look part of the same family.

5 – Mount Boards as Design Elements

Mount boards add a visual newness to wall display, particularly your gallery. Its unusual, as it unifies and offers diversity at the same time. Flexibility in choosing colours and using ombre shades that go from dark to light and vice versa, are great for visual appeal.

6 – Frames of a Single Aesthetic

The frames below give off a farmhouse, rustic vibe. Hence, they belong to one type of style and placed together, they blend beautifully. Frames in pastel colours and the distressed finish help create a boho wall art.

7– Mix Them Up

Your gallery wall can look like this. All a nice eclectic mix. From a vintage at one end of the spectrum to light stream-lined frames. However, in the choice of prints and photos have a common thread. A conversation piece this gallery. With large and small frames, and everything in between.

8 – Washi tape Frames

What a departure from the usual wooden frame or any other hard material. It is creatively used washi tape to frame the pictures. You can use little tacks to hold up photographs. Or, pictures can be framed with washi tape by sticking the tape to border the pictures. Using different designs in one colour, or using the same design in different colours, works.

For a Boho feel, mix pictures and styles, both in colour and picture subject.

9 – Clipboard Frames

Whoever thought of using clipboards to put up pictures or photographs on the wall? Well, it’s a practical and flexible option and an economical one. Changing pictures with ease and as frequently, is now a possibility without going to the framers. It just a matter of collecting identical clipboards, and the requisite numbers required to fill up the wall size selected.

10 – Hangers

Using hangars as picture holders for wall space is a perfect display for a children’s room. This allows display of a child’s own handiwork or family photos, and again, these can be changed periodically. Use multiple of single hangars to create this cheerful playfulness.

11 – Miscellaneous

Framing pictures and photos in your favourite corner in the house, could not get any easier with these easy DIY hacks. Use similar subjects to put up on wall in the form of scrolls using wooden rods at both ends. And go free-hand by using a sketch pen to draw frames of various designs around your most loved pictures and photos. So simple, yet novel and artistic.