Family Photo Wall Ideas (on a bedspring)
Family Photo Walls are a great place to highlight your family’s personality and your decor style. If you take new pictures every year or so, having a changeable backdrop can enable you to switch up your display easily. A rusty crib spring is the perfect foundation for a unique, changeable family photo display! To pump up your creativity, here are some Family Photo Wall Ideas (on a bedspring).
Family Photo Wall Ideas (on a bedspring)
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Use Canvas Prints rather than Frames with Glass
For an updated style, order canvas prints of your family photos, rather than putting photographs behind glass in frames. Bump up the size a bit, too, for greater impact. Canvas prints can easily be ordered and purchased online and shipped directly to you. You can have the photo wrap around the edges or have the edges black. Choose a very clear photo and make sure it is 300 dpi for professional-looking quality.
Add Items that Define Your Family’s Personality
A family photo wall doesn’t have to only be pictures. A bedspring foundation will enable you to add personal items that define your family’s personality. Add a few fun sayings with purchased wall hangings, and maybe the number of people you have, or your initial.
Find fun family sayings to add to your display HEREand HERE
You can find vintage books cut into your family initial HERE
Number stencil can be found HERE
Be Creative with How you Hang your Family Photo Wall
Add some of your personality in what you hang the pictures and accessories with. I wanted my family photo wall to have a little of my junky style. I used simple, old fashioned string to tie several of the elements and used old clips also.
One family photo is displayed on an open hymnal, which conveys our love and heritage of music.
I added some vintage clock faces for graphic punch to our family photo bedspring. The “time passing” theme seemed appropriate, since my kiddos are all grown up! Old clothespins made it easy to simply clip them to the backdrop.
This is definitely not your “normal” family photo wall display!
If you want to see how I got the rusty cribspring to look so perfectly patinaed, check out my post, “Wagner Sprayer”.
Add Seasonal Foliage to your Family Photo Wall
When you have a bedspring for the backdrop, seasonal changes can be made, too. When Christmas comes around , I add evergreen sprays to give the display some seasonal flair!
A Family Photo Wall can be so much more than pictures. It can be a place that describes your family’s personality and can be a changeable canvas you can have fun decorating. Hope you enjoyed these Family Photo Wall Ideas (on a bedspring) and can better your decorating with them!
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Hey there! I’m in the process of doing something similar but with my daughter’s canvas art..
How did you hang your family pic onto it?
This is such a beautiful idea!
Sounds fun, Lyn! I placed those teeth picture hangers on the back top of the canvas boards and then tied them to the spring with twine or bindwire. You could even use paper clips bent open like an “s”. Hope that helps!
I love this! I’m in the process of doing it in my daughters room. I can’t seem to find a way to hang it! How did you do it?
Fun! We just put screws into some of the holes that were already in the frame, Michelle. But I’m sure there’s different versions. That will be a fun place to have a flexible wall display!
I love what you did. If I ever find one (and I will), this is perfect for family photos. You have a nice family.
I hope you find one, Marlene!
When I saw the crib spring you have I knew I wanted to find one. You have it decorated so great. Well I finally found one at a garage sale. I bought the whole bed without the mattress. I decorate it for each season. When I bought it my husband ask me where I was going to put it. He said I hope not in the living room and I said no I was going to put it in the family room.
I loved hearing this, Jonita! After 20 years of repurposing, my husband still can never imagine what I’m going to do with things; he at least asks me before throwing things away, though;) Thanks for letting me know! I’m so glad you found one!
Oh, I have one of these on my wall but yours gives me some excellent ideas! It was the crib I had used with my 4 grandbabies. Thanks!
Arlene,
It’s been so fun to see your excitement for all your vintage finds! Sounds like you have wonderful treasures to work with; you’re already ahead of many!
Love these ideas but to the left I spied something else I liked and on the bed spring. The Bible songs and whats on the tree. Do you have more of those ideas? I am doing our church tree.
Deborah, Don’t quite know what you are referring to. As I look at the pic, I have a string of old book pages cut into leaves that I stapled onto some yarn to make a garland. And I also have some old piano keys repurposed into snowflakes. I have rolled music pages into cones before and stuck them into the tree. I suppose you could do that with hymn pages from an old hymnbook;you could use copies if you don’t want to use the original. Good luck with the tree! I remember decorating our church tree many years right after Thanksgiving!
I love this too Lora! I searched and searched for one when we built my craft room 4 years ago. Couldn’t find one and then I ran across a large chicken wire framed piece at T.J. Maxx and bought it. I still like it, but of course I found an old bedspring last winter. But happily I told my friend what an awesome price it was and she bought it. Thanks for sharing with SYC.
hugs,
Jann
Jann,
I’ve mostly found them in roadside piles when someone is getting rid of their old crib. And there’s so many restrictions on using old cribs…the trick is to get them before the scrapers do!
Lora, I’m completely smitten with your family tree wall art. Makes junk look pretty elite, doesn’t it? 🙂
I’ve featured you in this weekend’s DIY Salvaged Junk party. Thanks for linking up! 🙂
Glad you liked it Donna! Guess I’m just not capable of doing a “normal” family photo display;) Thanks for hosting the parties each week; you’ve got my kinda junk people!
Loving all of the colors and textures, Lora–great display with perfect balance and color choices. Thanks so much for linking up your posts with us at Vintage Charm. Pinned!
Thanks, Diana!
What size bedspring are you using
Diane, this one is a crib-sized spring. The green one in my back entry that I used for a Christmas card display is a twin. The crib one is a nice, smaller size for wall art. Whenever we had them in the store, they didn’t last long.