How can I DIY a way to display these photos?

Cori Widen
by Cori Widen
I just ordered square prints of photos that I took and posted on Instagram and I'm looking for some ideas in terms of how to display them other than buying a frame. I've seen people DIY unique frames, or hang them with twine/clothespins - any ideas? Done anything like this before? Thank you!

  11 answers
  • Sunny C Sunny C on Aug 09, 2017

    Hello Cori; You can hang pictures from a Clothesline of sorts, as my Mother did this when I was quite young.

    She simply hung a length of line across one wall of her Dining room.

    She then hung select pieces of my Art work, until we decided which ones we wanted to save and frame to keep for good.

    I hope that this helps you!!!!! Take Care!

  • Linda Sikut Linda Sikut on Aug 09, 2017

    You could do them like a collage. I once did something similar by getting a poster frame and arranging the pics inside. You could decorate the edges if you wanted to do that.


    Good luck!

  • My girlfriend found a very large antique display case (think hinged shadow box), that has lovely hardware. She made a fabric covered cork board false back and wedged it in and hung on the wall so that the glass front was like opening a door. As she collected photos over time, she would just artfully tack in with pretty thumbtacks, hat pins, etc. Looks really cool.

  • Kim Kim on Aug 09, 2017

    An old window is great for displaying pictures! You can make collages on each pane, or put one picture in each pane and change them out periodically.

    You can create a quilted wall hanging with picture pockets and change them out periodically.

    I saw a wire tree once with pictures on it. It was a bare tree, not a Christmas tree and it was really interesting!


    Hope that helps

    : )

  • Suz Colbeth Suz Colbeth on Aug 09, 2017

    One large frame, collage the pictures in it under the glass - Easy to change when you want to add more, very easy

  • Cori Widen Cori Widen on Aug 09, 2017

    Thanks everyone for the ideas! I'm very inspired!!

  • Sharon Sharon on Aug 09, 2017

    I did a giant picture board at the Boys and Girls Club in wavy water purple velvet with thin ribbon criss-crossed all over the board in a grid to hold the pics. Ribbons were stapled on the back side.

  • Susan K Mullins Susan K Mullins on Aug 09, 2017

    Take a frame, paint it the color of your choice and staple chicken wire across the back of the frame. String twine across it and use the small decorated clothes pins to hang pics.

  • Virginia Virginia on Aug 10, 2017

    On a line with cloths pin or elevator clips

  • Karen Rogers Karen Rogers on Aug 11, 2017

    Attach them to heavier backing to be able to attach hanger .could put a washie tape to look like frame, lace around edges, some kind of gimp pretty flat stuff from material dept.