Framed Prints
Framed boudoir prints arrive at your home ready to hang after being customized to your liking.
All framed prints come standard on fine art photo paper and are protected behind glare resistant acrylic. This print and acrylic combination allows for the best viewing experience even under bright lighting conditions.
This post will go over all the ways you can customize your framed prints for your space. It will also help you make some tasteful choices so that your framed prints look strikingly beautiful on your wall and never tacky!
When designing your framed prints you should consider:
The best places to hang your boudoir photos
Frame sizes
Below are the frame sizes you can get for your prints. It’s common for people to want to get prints in the wrong orientation or too small for the space they’re thinking about.
For instance an 8x10 can look tiny and out of place on a large wall. Likewise a landscape (wide) orientation might not work for a tall skinny wall where a portrait (tall) orientation would work better.
Determining the size frame you need
Before you select a frame size for your print(s), make sure you know where you think you want to hang it. We will cover more about where to hang your photos later in this post if you’re unsure.
Next, get a sheet of butcher paper, an old amazon box (or whatever else you have on hand) and make a template for the size frame you think you might want. For example, if you think you might want a 16x20 frame, cut an amazon box to that size so you can best visualize the size of the frame on your wall.
Once you have your template, you can tape it to the wall where you want to hang your print. Next (and this is the important part) stand back and look at your template from the distance you will view the print from. This is the most accurate way to choose the correct size frame for your print.
Standing back at the correct viewing distance is important to accurately gangue weather or not the size looks good for that space. Its very easy to get fooled by holding the template (or tape measure) on the wall while looking at it close. Not standing back to look at the template will usually throw you off and lead to improper sizing, so make sure not to skip this step!
Ready to hang, framed prints come in the following sizes:
Frame options
Ready to hang prints are currently available in the following frames:
Mat options
You can showcase your images full bleed in the frame or you can have them matted in:
10x20 boudoir print collage with double white mat and black frame.
Single White
Single Black
Double White
Double Black
All mat cores match the color of the mat. This means that a black mat will have a black core and white mats will have a white core. The core refers to the exposed edges of the cuts at the print opening.
All frames above 8x8 have large and small width mat options for the frame. Larger frames have even more width and opening variations depending on how much mat you like.
Multi image collage mats are also available and can be designed at your reveal session.
It’s a good idea to let me know if you want a collage BEFORE your session. Capturing images to be arranged like this requires forethought and planning that might not happen unless I know you want this.
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The best places to hang your boudoir photos
Many women are openly uncomfortable about the idea of hanging their boudoir photos in their home. This is for a good reason because when done un-artfully, boudoir wall prints can look trashy or tacky.
When done well though, they can be strikingly beautiful, fine art centerpieces where you are the featured subject, even if no ones knows it!
So what’s the difference between prints that look artful and those that come off as trashy? Part of it is about what prints you choose to display. Bodyscapes and other anonymous images tend to work best and are the safe choice.
The other major contributing factor is where in you home you decide to hang the images you choose. The easiest places to hang your boudoir photos that won’t come off as trashy are:
The bathroom
The master bedroom
His man cave
His garage/work area
The Bathroom
You’ll notice really fancy places that have any nude art in them almost always display something in the bathroom.
Since this is an area where people tend to remove their clothes for bathing and such, it seems to be an almost universally accepted area where nude art won’t feel out of place or over the top (even to more socially conservative people).
For those that feel extra shy about hanging their photos, the master bathroom is perhaps the easiest place to start. If you don’t like the idea of hanging them here, you probably won’t like the idea of displaying them anywhere.
The private nature of bathrooms combined with the cultural acceptance of nude art in them, makes the master bathroom in particular the easiest place to display your photos tastefully.
Bathrooms with detached sink areas are the best place hang your framed prints. High moisture areas (like bathrooms with showers) are a poor place to put framed prints due to how the humidity will affect the paper prints and mats.
Choose a metal print instead of a framed print if your bathroom has a tub or shower in it. Metal prints are printed on aluminum and can withstand the punishment of a high humidity areas (like a bathroom with a shower).
The Master Bedroom
16x20 boudoir print in walnut frame with double black mat
For those that are more open about displaying their images, the master bedroom is another great place to display framed prints for that daily reminder of just how beautiful you are!
The advantage to displaying your boudoir photos in your room is this is where you can make your print look really good with proper placement and lighting for the print.
It’s also an area where you’re going to see the print most often as you get ready in the morning. This is a good thing when you’re trying to see it every day and change the way you see yourself.
My clients have told me that displaying their photos in their bedrooms acts similarly to a positive affirmation vision board. By seeing their photos daily, many of my clients have told me that this has helped them to stop criticizing their bodies and start loving themselves again.
His Man Cave
Arguably if there’s any place to put up a color boudoir image where everyone can tell it’s you, it’s got to be on the wall in his man cave. Think sexy implied nude photo of you at the beach, or you in his fire fighting gear, or maybe wearing his tie and nothing else…
If this feels like too much for you, you can always give him his 7 favorite color images in a retro viewer on the condition that it stays private in his night stand.
The Garage / His Shop
This is another area where the rules can be broken or bent depending on what each of you is comfortable with (and what he does for a living). If he’s a tinkerer in the garage, the non-descript nude body-scapes work really well especially with other imagery of cars or whatever else he’s into on the walls.
Fun fact, the lines of super cars are usually inspired by the lines of a woman’s body!
The naughty photos of you in his uniform or coveralls are also popular for this area.
Just keep in mind that garages are less clean areas then say bedrooms. Therefore, I generally recommend that you get metal prints for the garage or his shop so you can clean the prints occasionally if need be.
The best types of boudoir photos to choose for your wall
Generally speaking it’s always classier to pair more public spaces, with more anonymous photos. This means images like body-scapes that focus on a portion of your body, or portraits were your face is obscured by angle or shadow will generally look classier in areas where visitors will see them.
I also find that black & white boudoir images tend to be softer and more artful over color images. The reason for this is the lack of color adds an extra layer of disconnect (like obscuring or cropping out the face) that will help anonymize the image.
All of that said, not everything you hang needs to anonymous or nude. There’s a pretty good case that the photo of you posing next to his muscle car in lingerie would look pretty fantastic next to his tool box in the garage.
In short, every circumstance is different, however, if you know where you might want to hang a photo of yourself before your photo shoot, this information will be super helpful for me when creating your images.
By knowing what orientation the photo will need to be and where you plan to display it, I can keep these factors in mind and you’ll have a greater chance of getting an image perfect for your space.
How to light your framed prints on your wall
It should go without saying that the most beautiful print in the world will look like trash if hung in a dark corner. The dark corner itself isn’t bad, in fact it can be a good thing if you augment it with a spot light. Museums for instance, generally like the ambient light 3 times darker than the light on the the artwork itself.
This article I wrote over on my portrait blog covers my favorite two lights I’ve discovered to illuminate prints on the wall. One offers better light quality, but is more expensive and might need to be installed by a professional.
The other is a battery powered option that is much easier to install if you rent your home or just want a cheaper option.
Don’t underestimate how important it is to light your print! If you plan to hang your piece next to a window or somewhere else with great natural light, that’s always a good choice. That said it will always get lost at night if the print doesn’t have a spotlight dedicated to it. Frankly there’s not many scenarios I can think of where a light won’t make a significant difference.
