Home photo gallery how do you create the right place for family memories?

Photographs on the wall build the identity of our interiors. They give them an individual character, enrich them with the most beautiful memories and make our bond with our home even more personal. When devising the concept for your home gallery, let's have some creative fun and experiment to your heart's content!

Travel memories, wedding photos, the first snapshots of the youngest members of the household or mementos of ancestors - there is certainly no shortage of photos for our little gallery. Instead of keeping them locked away in albums or family chronicles, find a suitably prominent place for them on the wall. This way, the moments, places and people we always want to remember will be with us every day.

HOME GALLERY - WHERE TO PUT THE PHOTOS?

When deciding to create a photo gallery on your wall, the first thing to think about is where to put it. We can hang photographs throughout the house so that personal touches adorn each interior, or we can make them into one main home gallery.

If we want our interiors to tell family stories from the very threshold to all our visitors, let's hang photos in the hallway: next to the chest of drawers, the key cabinet or near the mirror. This colourful chronicle can also span an entire wall, leading us from door to door.

However, when we prefer the collection of memories to take on a slightly more personal touch, we can choose the living room as the home gallery. Photos adorning the focal point of the living room - just above the sofa, table or bookcases - will evoke pleasant moments during lazy evenings and will certainly provide topics for conversation during visits from family and friends.

The most personal memories, on the other hand, will find their place in the bedroom. Hanging on the wall above the bed or next to the personal dressing table, they will remind you of yourself every morning and evening.

SELECTION OF IMAGES FOR THE HOME GALLERY

Space is not everything, of course. It will be much more difficult to choose the photos that will make up our gallery.

We can group the photos thematically, creating several small collections that tell specific stories: about the wedding and reception, a trip to the other side of the world or the first days after the birth of a child. Such a story does not have to be chronological at all. We can play with the composition, freely arranging our photos into an artistic collage.

A photo wall can also reflect the passions and interests of the household members. Amateur photographers can create a collection of their most successful pictures, sportsmen and women will be happy to show off snapshots commemorating important successes, and travellers can arrange their own atlas of the world using the landscapes they have captured. After all, the home photo gallery doesn't have to hang only those pictures in which we are ourselves. For example, concert tickets, postcards, souvenirs or hand-drawn pictures of the youngest members of the family can add to the mosaic of memories.

Photos can also turn our interiors into a time machine. Black and white photographs from the teenage years of your grandparents or parents can help you take a journey into the past. I'm sure they are hidden away in family albums, in the attic or in the cellar.

HOW TO HANG PHOTOS ON THE WALL?

Once we have chosen a location and determined the nature of our home display, it's time to hang the photos. We can choose the photographs we care most about and make them the focal point of the collection. Let's hang them at eye level and surround them with other, smaller photos. Although there's nothing stopping you from planning your home gallery symmetrically, you can also create an interesting effect if it takes the form of controlled chaos.

You can hang frames of different sizes, horizontally and vertically - in regular rows or in artistic disorder - next to each other. However, in order not to drill unnecessary holes in the wall, it is advisable to define the compositional key for our home gallery right from the start.

We can, for example, choose one photo to be the focal point and arrange the subsequent frames around it: e.g. symmetrically, according to size, colour or specific motifs. If you like an orderly arrangement, it will be easiest to establish conventional lines to which you align the photo frames. This way, they will form a regular shape, such as a rectangle or square. It is best to define the boundaries for our gallery in relation to other elements of the interior - e.g. a few centimetres above the sofa, sideboard or shelves, or at a small distance from the edge of the wall.

When we want our collection of photos to "climb" up the stairs, it will be most convenient to sketch a diagonal line running parallel to the next steps. It is on this line that we will make successive openings for those photos we want to hang the highest.

Also try to keep a constant distance between each photo: irregular spacing, instead of creating the desired artistic mishmash, can only increase the impression of clutter. Try also to hang the photos at the right height - so that it is always easy to stop for a moment.

You can also experiment with colours. In a home gallery, mix classic black or white frames together with wooden ones or those finished in a distinctive colour - such as red, blue or yellow. When choosing frames, you can match them with the colour of the walls or other accents in the interior: sofa upholstery, cupboard fronts or colourful accessories and decorations.

PHOTOS ON THE WALL - DESIGN IDEAS

A home photo gallery can be given a special touch by emphasising its qualities, e.g. with suitably adapted lighting. Small wall lamps are particularly useful, illuminating photo frames from below or above. A desk lamp can also be placed near a wall surrounded by picture frames, especially on a tall sideboard or buffet. The light will help to highlight the photos in the room and focus guests' attention on them.

Children will also certainly want to display their collections in their own rooms. Young collectors and collectors of memories can stick their photos directly onto the wall with special stickers. No trace will be left on the practical Kerradeco systems even after years - they are extremely durable and easy to clean. Photographs can also be pinned to cork boards, furniture toppers or hung on the multifunctional desk and bed ladders from the Stige collection.

Photographs have an extraordinary power - they freeze the intangible in time and prevent memories from fading into our minds. When creating a personal gallery, we don't have to stick to rigid rules. It's best to let your imagination run wild and allow yourself to have your own artistic disorder. Our memories will do the rest for us.