Photo Wall
posted on february 20, 2005, tag: me
This weekend, Katia and I finally got around to starting our apartment decoration project. For the longest time we've been wanting to decorate our living room with all the photos I've taken over the past year. We were trying to come up with a way to hang lots of pictures without having to frame each one and the real goal was to have a system that allowed for easy and frequent swapping. We found it. We bought a bunch of magnet strips and screwed them to the walls.
It looks great and it's an easy way to hang lots of photos at once. We plan to add more of these strips (another row above the current two) around the room. You can see pictures of the photo wall on Flickr.
Oh, and I hinted in one of my 24in48 photo descriptions that I was leaving my current job and it's true. I was offered a position at a web development company in Union Square and I accepted it. I'll post more details here once I get started at the new place on February 28. This move will be good. I'm anxious to get back to doing more web work.
Comments
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Mindy on 02/20/2005:
That's such a creative solution! The word captions are a nice touch.
Anxious to hear details of your new job.
Will on 02/21/2005:
I caught the photos on flickr. That's a great idea. I've got a bunch of photos that I'd like to display, but also didn't want to/really can't afford to buy alot of frames.
Good luck with the new job.
Jonathan Smith on 02/21/2005:
Congrats on the new job Garrett! The magnetic words idea is brilliant!
smslavin on 02/22/2005:
That's a great idea and it looks pretty cool as well. Less clutter. I take it the magnet words are holding the photos to the strips?
motoed on 02/23/2005:
Nice concept.
I like that idea a lot. I was hanging some pics myself this past weekend and was dismayed that I didn't have nearly enough frames to display as much as I wanted to... and I wasn't about to drop a fortune on new frames.
So this post gave me the inspiration to blog a little about this myself and I found some cool ideas. Nothing i'm completely sold on yet, but check it out at http://www.edhidden.com/the-best-pictures-are-ones-you-share/
Ashleigh on 02/24/2005:
I really think you have come up with a great idea (even though I cannot see the pictures on Flickr because I have crappy dial-up) what I saw looks really good. Just another win for Garrett Dorsett!