Ideas for wall collages with 20+ pictures...help?

[Anonymous]

In our past homes, before our toddler, I would create a collage of over 20 3x5 and 4x6 individual pictures of trips and memories. We moved into our current home a week before my son was born (unexpectedly) and 2.5 years later I still have not hung any of our favorite pictures.

I wondered if anyone had an easier suggestion for framing/hanging so many pictures than individually? There's some of our son to add, so now it could be over 25+ photos. I have two walls in the dining room to use. I've looked at collage frames, or maybe hanging wire and clipping pictures, but I'm kind of at a loss for ideas.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

We have a wall with at least 40 pics - going back to my grandparents' honeymoon in 1920... We printed them all in black and white and put them in black frames with white matte. Pretty standard stuff, nothing groundbreaking, but we love it and everyone always compliments us on it. I have a total mishmash of frames- some cheapies at Ikea, and one of the art stores was a great source for some more interesting mattes (like off-center ones). And i splurged on a couple bigger more expensive ones from other stores to balance it out. Some of the frames have 3 or 4 pics in them, and others are solo. Some pics are as big as 8x10. It looks great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a wall with at least 40 pics - going back to my grandparents' honeymoon in 1920... We printed them all in black and white and put them in black frames with white matte. Pretty standard stuff, nothing groundbreaking, but we love it and everyone always compliments us on it. I have a total mishmash of frames- some cheapies at Ikea, and one of the art stores was a great source for some more interesting mattes (like off-center ones). And i splurged on a couple bigger more expensive ones from other stores to balance it out. Some of the frames have 3 or 4 pics in them, and others are solo. Some pics are as big as 8x10. It looks great.

I have a similar thing and love it. I cut pieces of construction paper the same size as the frames and put them up to test how the sizing would look before hanging the pics. Frames are all white, pics are color and b&w.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a wall with at least 40 pics - going back to my grandparents' honeymoon in 1920... We printed them all in black and white and put them in black frames with white matte. Pretty standard stuff, nothing groundbreaking, but we love it and everyone always compliments us on it. I have a total mishmash of frames- some cheapies at Ikea, and one of the art stores was a great source for some more interesting mattes (like off-center ones). And i splurged on a couple bigger more expensive ones from other stores to balance it out. Some of the frames have 3 or 4 pics in them, and others are solo. Some pics are as big as 8x10. It looks great.

Can you provide a pic (side view, so no faces shown, for example); so we can get an idea of how to do something like this, and how it looks - before we take on the endeavor? Not OP here, but would appreciate the help.

[Anonymous]

Potter barn gallery in a box.