Where to buy gallery wall frames: IKEA, Amazon, Crate and Barrel, even Dollar Tree!
06 February 2019
Hello! I shared the updated gallery wall last week but didn't get to share some of my favorite frame options (with commentary, of course!) if you are on the hunt to create a memory wall of your own. To break down the cost of ours:
Frames from Walmart for about $7 each = $105
Gallery Mats from Blick Art $107 (but in all fairness, I had 3 extra mats since they came in pack of 6)
Total: around $200
Our wall was inspired by these frames that Studio McGee hung in their Modern Mountain home. I loved the sleek frames with the larger mat!
Another option for great mats is a wedding signature mat that gives more white surround for a sleek, museum like look.
Let's look at some other options:
The $14.99 Ribba frames from IKEA are hard to beat but listen to this: they discontinued the square ones pictured here!! So, so sad about that. The only square ones I now see are the Hovsta 9". I also love this grid gallery wall is from Toria Erskine Total of the frames for this wall would be $135 if they still offered the square but you could use other frames they now have to create a different size.
Here is another classic Ribba collection from @marissa.lindsey on Instagram.
This wall from Shay Cochrane is perfection but the price is steep -- these are the Mercer Slim from Framebridge and at $85 a pop, this wall would set you back $1,360 *gulp* But to be fair, this does include the print and they do have coupon codes.
Frames from Walmart for about $7 each = $105
Gallery Mats from Blick Art $107 (but in all fairness, I had 3 extra mats since they came in pack of 6)
Total: around $200
Our wall was inspired by these frames that Studio McGee hung in their Modern Mountain home. I loved the sleek frames with the larger mat!
Another option for great mats is a wedding signature mat that gives more white surround for a sleek, museum like look.
Let's look at some other options:
The $14.99 Ribba frames from IKEA are hard to beat but listen to this: they discontinued the square ones pictured here!! So, so sad about that. The only square ones I now see are the Hovsta 9". I also love this grid gallery wall is from Toria Erskine Total of the frames for this wall would be $135 if they still offered the square but you could use other frames they now have to create a different size.
Here is another classic Ribba collection from @marissa.lindsey on Instagram.
This wall from Shay Cochrane is perfection but the price is steep -- these are the Mercer Slim from Framebridge and at $85 a pop, this wall would set you back $1,360 *gulp* But to be fair, this does include the print and they do have coupon codes.
Don't you love this wall from Whitney Clarke on Instagram? These Icon Black frames are from Crate and Barrel, to have eight as pictured would cost $400.
DIY Playbook shared this awesome grid wall and the frames (with mats) are from Michael's for $14 each. If you used a coupon on top of that you could probably get this wall for under $100
I also love this wood 16X20 matted to 8X10 for $20
This black set has nine 12X12 pieces with the white mats for only $50 and it comes with hanging template. Look at the pictures in the reviews to get a better idea of the scale.
Amazon has the white frames available as well -- the whole set for $57
If you want a light wood option, these 16X20 (with mat!) are only $20 at Target, but add them to your cart and watch for a sale! They go buy one, get one 50% off quite often.
and sometimes you can make the dollar store work for you too -- remember my $10.56 gallery wall?? That was 7 years ago in our Virginia home! But you can still buy the $1 frames and then get some great mats to go inside.
I also love this wood 16X20 matted to 8X10 for $20
This black set has nine 12X12 pieces with the white mats for only $50 and it comes with hanging template. Look at the pictures in the reviews to get a better idea of the scale.
Amazon has the white frames available as well -- the whole set for $57
If you want a light wood option, these 16X20 (with mat!) are only $20 at Target, but add them to your cart and watch for a sale! They go buy one, get one 50% off quite often.
and sometimes you can make the dollar store work for you too -- remember my $10.56 gallery wall?? That was 7 years ago in our Virginia home! But you can still buy the $1 frames and then get some great mats to go inside.
I hope this has been helpful -- I searched high and low when I was putting our wall together so I wanted to save you some time. Good luck!
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Have a wonderful February weekend!
Hello there! I hope you are staying warm wherever you are, I can't believe the frigid temperatures across the nation. In the fall after the kids went back to school something about the family room was making it feel too cluttered and busy to me. I identified one of the culprits as the gallery wall and decided to re-vamp it! I pictured something more modern, simple and sleek.
-- and the focus to be more on the pictures than the frames. I wasn't willing to drop over $500 for a gallery wall so this is what I came up with: the 16X20 frames are actually from Hobby Lobby and I got them when frames were 50% off, so they were only $5 each. The sale didn't show up online but it did in store when all the other frames go on sale. I also noticed Wal-mart had some almost identical ones for $7.99 so you may want to check those out. I think they look like black matte metal unless you get really close and touch them you can tell they are plastic.
The mats are my favorite though -- they are the 16X20 portrait museum mat with an 8X10 opening. They are not centered and have more white at the bottom, thus giving them the "museum" look? Anyway, I loved them. There always seem to be a sale going on with free shipping at Blick.
To hang them, we have had this hanging laser level that they don't sell anymore (here it is on Ebay) that shoots a laser across the whole wall. Here is the new version on Amazon and I think you can hang it with command strips if you don't any holes in the wall from it.
First, we calculated how wide and how tall we wanted the gallery to be. Where do you want the bottom of the bottom row of pictures to be and where to you want the top of the top row of pictures to be? Then, we measured the size of the frames and then decided how far we wanted them to be apart. Next, painter's tape was used to measure the distance from the hook on the back of one frame to the hook on the back of the next and put that on the laser and hung the nails on each end. Does that make any sense?? If you can see in the above pic, we also used painters tape to measure vertically how far from the hook at the back to where the next row started. Painter's tape is your friend when hanging a gallery wall!
See that fiddle leaf fig? It is out of control -- getting so big!! Which is good but I'm not sure exactly where to put it. I hope this helps give you ideas for your gallery wall goals.
Happy Wednesday!
-- and the focus to be more on the pictures than the frames. I wasn't willing to drop over $500 for a gallery wall so this is what I came up with: the 16X20 frames are actually from Hobby Lobby and I got them when frames were 50% off, so they were only $5 each. The sale didn't show up online but it did in store when all the other frames go on sale. I also noticed Wal-mart had some almost identical ones for $7.99 so you may want to check those out. I think they look like black matte metal unless you get really close and touch them you can tell they are plastic.
The mats are my favorite though -- they are the 16X20 portrait museum mat with an 8X10 opening. They are not centered and have more white at the bottom, thus giving them the "museum" look? Anyway, I loved them. There always seem to be a sale going on with free shipping at Blick.
To hang them, we have had this hanging laser level that they don't sell anymore (here it is on Ebay) that shoots a laser across the whole wall. Here is the new version on Amazon and I think you can hang it with command strips if you don't any holes in the wall from it.
First, we calculated how wide and how tall we wanted the gallery to be. Where do you want the bottom of the bottom row of pictures to be and where to you want the top of the top row of pictures to be? Then, we measured the size of the frames and then decided how far we wanted them to be apart. Next, painter's tape was used to measure the distance from the hook on the back of one frame to the hook on the back of the next and put that on the laser and hung the nails on each end. Does that make any sense?? If you can see in the above pic, we also used painters tape to measure vertically how far from the hook at the back to where the next row started. Painter's tape is your friend when hanging a gallery wall!
It actually ended up working really well and the hardest part was definitely the math and getting that laser hung at the perfect angle. (there is a handy level on it that lets you know when it is straight.)
I was thrilled that we were able to use all of the favorite pictures from our old gallery wall plus add some new ones.
Happy Wednesday!
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