the Buick family photo wall
So….
just to make it known….
we have never really had a photo wall.
Once we did….but that was BC….{Before Chicago}.
I know….yell at me if you wish…. but the only photo wall i’ve had in this house is in our bedroom…
and just to make it clear…
it’s because everyone knows what we look like.
My friends see my kids everyday….
bryan and i know what each other look like…
our kids could pick each other out in a line up.
{not saying that would ever happen..}
Why have a photo wall if you all see each other everyday anyway….huh?
Plus….this little house is only 1800 sf…and wall space is at a premium…
you know….
just in case i ever wanted to hang some kids artwork.
{i’m not going to point out the wall where one of the kids took a sharpie too…and
practiced writing his name all over it….no…i won’t point that out today}
It’s only because i love those damn library photos so much that i decided they needed to be
printed and hung somewhere in my house.
So….
the best place would have to be the wall along the stairs…
and because i don’t really have another wall that would work.
You might have noticed that none of the frames have glass in them….
that is because i used mostly vintage frames…
{the smaller frames are newer and from Ikea}
and also..
the most important reason….
because i have three kids that i know…
for a fact….
will knock a frame or two down…..
{ it’s happened before….even though it’s been blamed on the never happened earthquake}
and i don’t want the glass shattering all over……
{been there….done that}
so to be on the safe side…and because i like that look…
there is no glass in any of the frames.
There is also no perfection……
some of the photos are just taped inside the frame……
i use my favorite light colored masking tape….just like i used in my sun room to tape up
on my Inspiration wall.
So….there you go….the big introduction.
And i bet you all thought i was going to show you the inside of my mini van today…
the mini van that i found a sandwich that was left from back in november.
Nope…not today. Today…you get this.
………
Updated to add: The color on the walls is Faded Silk by Ralph Lauren.
Love this wall!! I have stairs too– I wonder if I could copy you? Would you mind?
Janet
makes me love you even more
xo
I love the wall and I would want those library pictures shown too. Lovely!
Your talent always amazes me.
I love this so much!
So pretty! I am currently collecting frames from goodwill & vintage thrift stores (I’ve been at it for months lol) to do this same thing! I don’t care the color of the frame because I can always paint them but I love the lines of old frames! I have a lot of vintage photos from my family so I’m going to mix the old pics with my family’s pics printed in a sepia tone.
I love this. Totally love this! & great idea about the no glass thing- I’m sure my kids will knock mine down too.
Gorgeous!
That looks fantastic!
Did your photographer print them for you or did you have them printed somewhere else?
Alisa,
I have the disc of photos from the photographer. It’s always a good idea when having your family photographed to spend the extra money and buy the disc so you can print as needed you photos.
Kasey…..this is fabulous! LOVE the photos, LOVE the frames….LOVE your beautiful family!! It looks perfectly imperfect
OMG! I totally love this! I’ve been combing houzz to find something to do with our staircase and had zero luck. This is perfect and right up our alley. Thanks so much for sharing!
Stacey…i just added these photos to houzz. Thank you for the reminder!
Love it!
I LOVE this! Inspiring me to start searching for vintage frames!!!
Casey
thanks for sharing
love both the wall and the video
a beautiful way to catch this time in your family’s life
blessings, jody
Wow, I love the non-perfectness of it… it’s just perfect!
ps duh KKKKK not C in Kasey so sorry i hate making that mistake
jody
Kasey, I LOVE this! It looks amazing
I have used my stairwell as the family photo wall since we moved into our 1800+square foot MN stucco farmhouse. Its the best place.
Looks fabulous! Love those pics, and that antique in the corner is so charming!
Beautiful framing ideas! I also love the paint color on the wall.
love!!!!
That wall looks amazing. I love the white frames against that pretty soft color on the walls. What color is that?
-Danielle
What a perfect addition to your home, it’s Great – You Dun Good : )
Beautiful!!!
Beautiful!!!!
Gorgeous! I love this wall of photos and this mix of frames. How neat.
I really like it, like lots! It turned out great. I need to hang things on my wall period! Gasp. It’s commitment issues. As usual you’ve made me smile.
Lindsey
love it!
xoxo, Tiffany
That’s beautiful! I’ve done something similar at my house, but I started with pictures of my grandparents, and I’m slowly building the family tree outwards as I find frames that I like at thrift stores.
It looks fantastic. Come do mine…
LOVE it!!!
Rachel
It looks fabulous my friend~ Those shots are outstanding!
xx
Yahoo!!!!!! Now I have to redo my wall to be cooler….thanks for that.
Ok. Seeing the majic bra may have been more of an internet WOW factor but this too is very personal.
I love this wall. It seems to be a real expression of your personality. Easy going. fun, you know…
Im going to steal this idea if that is ok. I LOVE vintage frames and mirrors and they are everywhere in my country home. I love to see old photos of my kids and this would be a fun way to display them. My father always tells me that family photos have a place and it’s not all over your house. Poo Poo on that. I love famly photos and think it’s a sign of love. I hope that does not mean my Dad did not love me
I like the addition of the keys. I collect those as well.
love it!
Kasey! I’ve been wanted to do a photo wall forever and can never figure out a way to make it look , you know…non-80s with the collage frames, etc. LOL I LOVE what you’ve done – maybe I’ll give it a shot! Thanks for the inspiration : )
kasey!
it’s BEAUTIFUL!!!!! i think…i just may have to copy your idea..and with 2 kids myself, i love the “no glass” idea. i have been wanting to “spruce up” my stair area..and this is the perfect thing! love your blog…it makes me laugh everyday!
Love it!
is there a word stronger than love? …that’s how i feel about this wall.
I want a photo of my hubby and I’s feet like that!!
Love it!! Great job and my favorite part is that you did it all with such a casual feel and didn’t stress the small things!! Life is so much better when we don’t worry about a frame being off a few cm’s!! bravo! hugs from conroe, tx!
i love your family photo wall! oh, and your library video was beautiful.
LOVE the wall! With or without pictures it has always been a great wall but I mean WITH those pictures?! AWESOME! And, I love frames without glass
I love it!
It’s beautiful, friend!
i have never commented here but i love love your blog. your way with words. your style. and i love this wall of pics. normally they drive me crazy because all i see is crookedness, but this i love! thanks for some great ideas.
Swoooooooooon! Love it! Love the imperfection that you had to point out cause really it just looks like dreamy perfection! Love the way it looks! Yummy!!
I have a the same exact stair case and It is blank. You have inspired me! I am going to do my own photo wall- thanks for the inspiration!
I love your picture wall! Does anyone know what color paint that is? Its just gorgeous!
Its called Faded Silk by Ralph Lauren;-)
I am not sure how you get your family to go for these photo shoots all the time. My girls griped and complained so much the other day, I thought- what the heck am I doing this for????
love it…you have a gift at making things look so simple yet so refined…does this make sense?
Simply beautiful! Those photos deserve to be displayed:)
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!
Looks awesome! I’ve debated doing something like that with some of my glass-less old chippy/freshly painted frames, but wasn’t sure how it would look. You made up my mind for me, clever girl! I love the fact that it’s so delightfully simple and has such a fun look to it.
That wall ROCKS! OMG, I love it so very much. I for sure would walk up and down that stairs all day long just to walk past that beauty.
Can you please share where you got that ampersand from? I think I remember you posting before it was from French Larkspur (sp) but I can’t find it anywhere on that site.
Thanks!
Kasey…LOVE the photo wall! I’m obsessed with photos…yes…I am THAT mom…my poor kids.
I have a couple photo walls in my house too. Love the mismatched frames…that’s the only way to go. 
Smiles,
Rachel
Oh it looks fabulous!! I love those library photos too!
Love it! Glad i’m not the only one who has pictures with no glass and things taped in frames…
I love it!!! It’s perfect.
So fun ladybug! I love those photos too. And so does John. I showed them to him, and now he’s determined to find a family that’s willing to go to the local library and have their photos done.
Love it Kasey! That’s my favorite way to hang photos. It just feels less gallery-like to me. Perfect!
gorgeous! xo
Just found your blog…LOVE! I’m getting ready to do my photo wall up my stairs and was set to do it the more conventional way and then I see your pictures. How creative! I’m rethinking the whole thing now.
Beautiful photos! They just draw you in. Especially love the cute pictures of you and your hubs. What a great way to remember this time in your life.
luv your photo wall Kasey! Thanks for the inspiration to do one myself – always thought I could not do it but I love your idea of using vintage frames.
I absolutely love it!
Cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Love it.
Love your wall! I also love the lamp on your little table and the SHADE! Can I ask where you purchased it?
I love it —- old frames and no glass — great idea — and I love the wall color also…………I couldn’t wait to see what we were going to see today —it was worth the wait!!!
This looks like something straight out of Anthropologie. I love it!
I love it!!!! I have been wanting to a gallery wall for the longest time and just haven’t.
And let’s not EVEN talk about my mini-van. It’s DIS-GUSTING!
i wanna wall & stairs would be good too
love love love your photo wall!
lovely!
sigh*********** i’m jealous, how do you have all those fabulous ideas and make everything look sooooooooooooo good! not fair! just every detail, color creates a nostalgic beauty that only you can do so well!
Kasey, this honestly has to be one of my favorite photo walls Everrrrrrr!!!!!!!! The paint color on the wall, with the vintage frames, and the best family library pics to be sure, are all just perfect together!!!!!!! This is just so ME!!!!!!!!!! Great job being so creative and different, what I love aboutcha!!!!!!!!
Michelle Torres
decorater4life@aol.com
Love it! I especially love the way you have casually placed the photos in frames that don’t necessarily match up in size – a great look.
Kasey
The wall looks great!!!! love the composition of the wall ~~~ you did good!
Blessings to you and yours
Curtis & Sherrie
I just have to tell you how much I LOVE your home! Every time you post pictures of a party, or project you have done, I fall in love! You pick such beautiful colors and styles
it’s sooo good!
xo,
LuLu
you have a wonderful house…
birgitte
LOVE it! Just beautiful! And it reminds me I have a beaded “U” that I need to add to my gallery wall!
Your photo wall is so much more elegant than mine… I just love it.
And I left you a blog award today… because I just enjoy reading your posts so very much.
I have about half a dozen vintage picture frames with no glass sitting up in the attic. I’ve been waiting to have glass cut for all of these so that I can put pictures in them. Why didn’t I think to hang them up without the glass?!
Thank you! My husband will be happy to put them to good use (although he will probably gripe about all of the new holes in the wall) (If he just looked BEHIND the pictures, he would see that there are even more holes…I’m not telling.
Mandy
Sweet! Your wall looks fantabulous, Kasey.
: )
Julie M.
ok so I have been a blog stalker for a little while and LOVE your blog! Even more though i LOVE your photo wall! Would love to know where in the world could I find the ‘&’ that you have hung up there? Gorgeous! Everytime I look at your blog I get more inspired!!!!
I’ve never had a photo wall either, for all the same reasons you didn’t have one before now. I really love the way your photo wall came out. I’m very impressed with all the frames that you have collected to fill you photo wall…nice!!!! I like the mixture of vintage frames/new frames/non-photo stuff on the wall. You have inspired me to rethink the photo wall. I am already for the eye roll I might get from my husband at the mention of needing some more frames to hang up! I really like the white frames on the green wall also!!! You did such a nice job!!! By the way, I love the library photos of your family. Very very sweet!
I didn’t get the eye roll for the frames, so it looks like it’s a go for a photo wall of my own. My husband noticed the ampersand…very cool. As another person wondered…where did you find it? It’s a nice contrast to all the straight lines!
I l0ve your photo wall! I think it is the perfect touch there. I have a question for you. How do you make 1800 sq ft work for your family of 5? We are looking for our new old house in our Village and I’m sure we will end up with less sq ft than we are used to and I’m a little panicked about it. I’d love to hear your tips.
This wall is so stunning and so fun.
Fondly,
Glenda
It’s stunning, amazing, perfectly imperfect perfection. The wall of photos was worth the wait…
I love how imperfect it is!
LOVE the picture wall!!! Soooo beautiful and I like the glass out look…functional and beautiful. The pictures look GREAT! What a fun project…picture walls are fun…glad you brought it back to your house!
Love the frames, they are wonderful. Started vintage-frame hunting on Etsy today
have a great weekend, Kristina
My kinda photos. My kinda wall.
love the photo wall! We don’t have one either (except in our bedroom as well!) I really want one and now you are giving my the push to do it!
Just checking in today in between school activities for the kiddos. Had a treat looking at the pics of your photo wall from the library. Had a gasp and a giggle over your REHAB notice. LOVE IT. You have a creative spark to your writing and now I can see also to your decorating. I might just have to do a photo wall going up my staircase which is now BLANK. Thanks!!
Oh, I see I had the wrong link to my previous post so now I have corrected it. Sorry about that.
Kasey could you share the paint color that you used on the staircase? Love what you did with the wall framing! Very chic
WOW! Hello beautiful collage wall! It looks amazing Kasey.
What is the color of blue on your wall? Who by? Love it! On a sad note, I’m a fellow Anthro lover. Just drive by my local store and…CLOSED! In mourning. Luckily it only moved bait 10-15 miles away, but still…really-give a girl a break!
Sorry for crazy iPhone spelling above:)
GORGEOUS!!!! It turned out awesome. Great job!
WOW! just wow.