Family Portraits on the Wall!

When we went to Asheville this summer for the Shaw flooring competition...(please go vote there are only a few more days!  THANKS!) We also had my great friend Destinee take family pictures for us.  She is a fabulous photographer, and it has been fun to watch her business take off!  I thought I would share some of the pictures with you, and how I framed and displayed the first few pictures!

Anyway, I recently got an invitation from Kristen to share a way that I display my family pictures… And since I just got these new pictures from Destinee I thought “Seize the day” , well it wasn’t quite that dramatic, more like.. “Crap I’ve gotta get this done before the post is due…!”

I wanted three large images in my entry, but I couldn’t find the frames that just said “BUY ME”.  And I went to about 5 different places.  Well, because I couldn’t find anything I loved, I decided to change the plan for now, and just bought some $5 dollar Wal-world frames… that way if it didn’t turn out great, then oh well.  But, I am really happy with how it turned out.

Where did I hang them?  I have this little “hall”  between our master bedroom and the guest half bath, on our main floor.  We used to have a bunch of family pictures there, but since we installed our wainscoting (and had Lydia)  I have yet to hang anything on the walls.  So, I thought I would put the pictures here.

I started with a quick coat of spray paint (Rustoleum’s Lagoon in Satin –  I love this, I painted a table this color months ago and have yet to show you it… ya know, for a blogger, I am REALLY bad at blogging!) for the frames which were black to begin.