As the days get shorter and we spend more time indoors, it’s a great time to give your home a bit of a refresh. A few simple changes can make your living space feel brighter and more welcoming, especially during the colder months.
Updating your wall art is an easy way to do this. Adding some fun and colourful prints to your walls can bring a fresh look to any room, without the need for a complete makeover.
At the mention of wall art, most of us probably immediately think about family photos. But, as well as the more traditional portrait-style photos, there are many fun variations of family photos that would really brighten up your home. In this article we’ll look at ten ideas for fun family wall art for your home this summer.
This is the key to successful family wall art. You don’t need to get everyone to pose and look serious. Just get them to be themselves. Even better, why not focus on everyone’s silly side to reflect your family’s sense of humour? So let everyone have a laugh, pull silly faces, stick tongues out : the more fun you have, the better and more authentic the photos are likely to be.
If you’re a bit stuck on how to break the ice and get things started, it could be a good idea to warm everyone up by putting on some favourite music and having a dance round the room.
All of these ideas can result in some fabulous fun family photos.
Any photos of your family being active together can make really good wall art. A few examples of this are:
Any of these ideas will create lovely photos with a real sense of motion, and will translate to fun and inspiring wall art for your home.
If your family travelled anywhere together this summer, hopefully you managed to get some great shots on the journey itself, as these can make great wall art and bring back lots of happy memories.
Whether it was a photo of you all inside the car, on a train platform, on a ferry, at the airport or seated on a plane, there is something fun and special about capturing different points on a journey. Looking back at these images can remind you how you felt before reaching your destination, particularly if it was somewhere you had never been before. Using such photos as wall art can help to recreate that sense of excitement and anticipation you felt at the time.
Another great idea for a fun family photo is to get some shots of you all playing a game together. This could be a board game, a quiz, an active game such as Twister, any other kind of challenge game, a treasure hunt, or anything else your family enjoys.
The main aim is to get some candid shots of your family relaxing and having fun together, where they are focused on what they are doing and almost don’t notice that the camera is there. These kinds of shots will pick up everyone’s personalities and little traits and form fabulous memories for the future.
What kinds of hobbies and passions do your family members have? Whether you love or hate them, someone’s hobbies and passions are an integral part of who they are, and deserve to be captured in a photo.
So for each family member, whether they are into sports, music, movies, books, cars, bikes or anything else, why not create the perfect photo opportunity for them, with a backdrop and props that represent what they love.
These photos can then be displayed together as wall art in your home to show the world who you all are!
Everyone loves fancy dress, as long as they are allowed to choose their own costumes. And why not? A family fancy dress shot would make ideal fun wall art for your home.
Younger children will probably decide to become a superhero or Disney princess for the day, or perhaps their favourite animal. Whereas adults may go for movie, TV or cartoon characters – or perhaps something more unique and ambitious altogether.
Hopefully the process of dressing up will be exciting, and get everyone in the right mood for some wonderful shots.
As a complete contrast to the fancy dress idea, another interesting option could be to get everyone to dress in matching outfits. How those outfits match is completely up to you.
For example, you may want the outfits to match exactly, such as everyone in blue jeans and a white T shirt. Or you may decide to have everyone wearing one item of clothing the same, such as jeans, then adding whatever they like on top. Or perhaps you’d prefer to go for a colour theme, where everyone has to wear something of their choice in white for example.
Matching outfits can look very stylish in a family photo, and you could decide to add a finishing touch by adding an extra feature for everyone such as a hat, tie, or a flower in their hand.
When planning your family wall art, another option is to make your photos black and white rather than colour. They can look very stylish and artistic and have a timeless feel. A series of black and white wall art throughout your home can totally transform it.
Another great idea to try, that works really well in black and white, is to take silhouette photos of your family. All you need to do is get everyone to stand in front of a brightly lit background, and this will create a dramatic and captivating photo which will look stunning as wall art in your home.
You can create some really interesting family wall art for your home by focusing on the little details of a larger photo. For example, if you have a large image of you all playing a game together, you could create a few sub images of details such as your family’s hands working together, someone’s forehead and eyes deep in concentration, one of the younger participants sucking their thumb, the family pet under the table.
Circling a few close up detailed images around the main photo to which they relate can make a fun yet poignant wall art display in your home.
To really add an edge to your family wall art, it’s important to experiment with different angles for your photos as well as the ideas for contexts and costumes listed above. Some of the best shots are taken from either above or below the subject, rather than on the same level.
Also experiment with different types of lighting, and try getting some reflection into the shots from sources such as water or mirrors. All of these aspects can add interest and depth to your images that could make your family wall art even better, and give your home a fresh new look..
We hope that the above information has given you some new wall art ideas for your home. And don’t forget, if you create your wall art using metal prints, you can display them outside as well as in! Print Your Memory can do this for you easily and quickly – you can find out more here.
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