The Perfect Picture Frame For Your Home Has 3 Elements To Make Your Art Stand Out
What is the perfect picture frame? When it comes to designing your new frame for your home a lot comes down to personal taste, just like the art you choose for your walls. But there are 3 important elements to remember to really make your art stand out when you design your picture frame with […]
Yes, We Frame Maps!
For this Greenwich Village map we used two contrasting mat colors to float and cut around to really set the map off. The Art Deco frame with the warm silver tone gives the whole frame design for this map project the right vibe and looks really classy. If you are thinking of having your map […]
Framing art prints for a “clean” look
We loved designing and framing these two prints here in our San Francisco Frame shops. The artists both chose to print on beautiful art paper with an interesting edge that we definitely wanted to show. So we hinged the papers to a mat that lifted the art up and kept the rest of the frame […]
Why we like to use mats for your art
Look at this amazing photograph of a pack of wild African dogs, also known as painted wolves! We could have chosen a frame design that is even more simplistic and not used a mat. So why did we use it? For visual reasons we really liked how the mat helps to draw you into the […]
Rustic and Beautiful
We chose a rustic looking frame for this image and put a hand wrapped fabric mat on it to enhance the colors and the “you are beautiful” message in it. We really love being creative as custom picture framers, thanks San Francisco for bringing us your art to frame!
How we frame three dimensional collectibles
We wanted to show you how we framed this amazing vintage “Berliner Weisse” Beer cardboard advertising. Because it is slightly three dimensional we wanted to give it some space in the frame and sink floated the piece in a double mat with nice wide margins. The collectible is attached with archival hinges, so there is […]
Just when the latest Star Wars is released…
Star Wars: The last Jedi is just out and we got so lucky to frame these amazing Star Wars prints! We used an 8ply black top mat and a different color second mat to pull on the great colors in each piece.