A photograph is only as beautiful as the final display, and one of our specialties here at Irene Abdou Photography is creating heirloom-quality photographic artwork that perfectly fits your existing home and style. All of our Washington DC portrait and wedding photography clients receive a complimentary design consultation, in which we help you visualize how you can best display your gorgeous photographs in your home. Walk around your home and pick out a few walls that you might like to hang some portraits on. Sometimes you might not be sure which wall is best, and that’s OK! We’re here to help you answer that exact question. So pick out any wall that’s a possibility (we recommend the living room and family room, or any 1st floor room that you spend a significant amount of time in), send us photos of the rooms together with a few measurements, and I’ll be able to show you what your favorite photographs will look like on your walls at different sizes and layouts.

Take this case study of a living room, which we’ve decorated with wedding photography from Jocelyn & Jules’s Baltimore wedding. Most living rooms will include a sofa, and most of the time, the sofa will be placed against a wall. In our case study, we’ve got a sofa that’s 95 inches (nearly 8 feet) long, which makes for a pretty big wall space behind it. So you can imagine that placing a single 8×10 photograph on this wall would look quite silly. That single 8×10 photograph is TINY compared to the wall! So when working with large areas, try placing multiple photographs next to each other in a layout to create a “photo wall.” In this case, eight 8×10 photographs do the trick.

Are you wishing that your bare walls be gone?