How to Create a Family Portrait Gallery Wall

Emotional Connections with a Family Gallery Wall

Have you ever walked into someone's home and immediately noticed their Gallery Wall full of beautiful portraiture?

Gallery Walls are a beautiful design piece for your home, but more importantly, they are pieces of your history and provide an emotional connection to your loved ones.

How did you feel when you saw those portraits on display in your friend's home? In awe? Inspired? You had an emotional connection! Imagine how the family feels seeing their portraits everyday on display in their home. Imagine how the kiddos feel!

Studies show there is a 65% more emotional connection to loved ones when they see tangible portraits either in their hand or in their home. Children who see their portraits on display feel a better sense of belonging and feel like they have a place in the world.

Isn't that just fantastic??

Let's create some beautiful Gallery Walls for your home together!

Steps to Create Your Dream Family Portrait Gallery Wall

Choose the Gallery Wall Location & Style

Start by choosing the wall for your family's portraits. Perhaps you want to update a wall and re home the portraits that are already there. You can give these portraits as gifts to family members, or find another wall to put them on.

Do you want to see these portraits when you first walk into your home? Or perhaps you want them to be in a more subdued place. Answering those questions will help you find the best spot in your home.

What is your style? Are you more modern focused-clean lines, whites, grays? Or a little more rustic? Barnwood and warm colors? Knowing your style will help you choose which medium will work best in your home. (canvases, framed prints, metals, for example)

How do you want to tell your Family's story?

How do you want to display the portraits? Do you want to choose images from a single session or from multiple sessions that will showcase the changes in your children? Knowing the answers to these questions will help you create something wonderful.

A Session with Us-or Another Photographer

If you are having your session with us, we will meet so I can learn more about your family. Knowing about you and your loved ones helps me plan the best session for you. I will ask questions that help me get to know you so I can capture all of you as authentically as possible.

We will discuss Gallery Wall options, your home decor style, and which art you would love for your home. About one week after our session, we will meet and I will show you just how your chosen portraits will look on the walls of your home.

If you have had a session with another photographer, have your digital images and need help, I am here for you.

The software I use to showcase exactly how portraits will look in my clients homes can design a gallery wall for you with images from another photographer, too.

Stress Free Process

As a family portrait photographer, I have developed a process that is as stress free as possible, fun, helpful (you don't have to do it yourself!) and results in you having cherished family artwork on display in your home. My hope is that your home will be a place where guests walk in and immediately notice you and your loved ones front and center on the walls of your home. My process takes all of the guesswork out and worries away.

I would love to help you celebrate and tell your family's love story. Call me at 406.580.6176 or send me an email to get started today.

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