Ideas to print and display your photos at home | Eickhoff Photography | Bothell Newborn Photographer

Having beautiful photos taken of you and your family can be an opportunity to create amazing memories. It can help you get that holiday card photo that you need, and it can be an awesome time to snuggle your babies and your partner or to appreciate your own strength and beauty. But, did you know you could indefinitely prolong the feelings of joy and love that you all experienced during your photo session? It’s great to use your photos as your phone wallpaper or your social media profile pic, but the best way for your whole family to experience your photos is in print, on your walls, where they get to see them everyday and feel your love too! I’d love to share some inspiration to get you started.

To highlight our family photos, we have a few photo collages in our house to help me bring the love and memories alive on our walls. There is one that has black and white portraits of the kids. These photos truly show off my kid’s personalities. I like to repeat this portrait process once a year and change out the prints in the frames to show their updated goofiness. I love how uniform and sleek this collage is. I love that the only focus is their faces and their personalities and I love being able to highlight them as individuals. Are you interested in taking personality portraits of your kiddos? Check out my guide on how to achieve this look in your own home. If you’d like photos that showcase your kiddos at their most authentic, but you’d prefer that someone else do the heavy lifting, check out my mini availability where we can create quick and beautiful photos of your kids.

The second collage is from my kids birthday photo shoot each year. Their birthdays are a couple of weeks apart, so I like to take them out together to get individual moments, sibling photos, and a few family photos.  Once I’ve finally narrowed it down to my absolute favorites from their birthday photos, I update our big family photo in the middle and surround it with large portraits of the kids. These usually include some individual portraits and some showing the kids loving on each other. I always pick my favorites and sometimes have a hard time updating them the next year because I love them so much.  Each year, I put the new photo in front and leave the old ones behind it so that I get to look through my favorites each time I open the frames.

I was recently thinking that by the time my kids graduate from high school, I will have all of my favorite photos with at least one from each year of their childhood already printed and ready to celebrate them through the years.

 The third main gallery wall has many photos from different years and different locations that represent favorite memories, moments, and milestones. The frames are mixed style, the photos are mixed styles, but they all show the love and joy of our family and our relationships. You might also consider picking out favorite photos of your family and framing them individually, then spreading them out among bookshelves. Or printing a large silhouette in awesome scenery and hanging over your fireplace.

If you have too many favorite photos (like me ;)) or not enough vertical wall space (also like me), then consider making a photo album of specific events or your whole year. I’ve been putting together an annual family photo album every year since before my husband and I got married. I fill it with all of my favorite images divided by event or adventure, including a few miscellaneous pages with a hodge-podge of favorite moments I don’t want to forget. I combine photos from my phone, my camera, and professional photos because it is ultimately about the memories. The books are big and full of color and love. Since my kids were born, I can now design one book and have multiple copies printed. This way, I can keep the memories and each of my kids can forever have a copy of their memories too. As an added bonus, printing albums helps me to be able to narrow down which photos to print bigger for my walls, as I know that all of my favorites will end up printed and cherished.

Lastly, I will admit that we recently installed two frame TVs in our house so that I don’t always have to make a permanent decision on which photos to hang up. Sometimes I have decision fatigue or analysis paralysis. I have a wall that was empty for 3 years because I couldn’t settle on the one photo I wanted to print to display on it. With the Frame TVs, I can set it to automatically change the photo and flip through a set of my favorite faves or I can pick a photo that fits with the season and change it when I’m ready. Occasionally I’ll have it change once a day and the kids are excited to see what photo pops up each day. I take a lot of landscape and macro photos, so I find it perfect for this. We are currently enjoying a sunrise over the mountains in Switzerland and the Northern Lights above Seattle, but we also throw in some photos of awesome family memories to Mount Rainer and photos from playing with our cameras together.

Ultimately, displaying your photos on your walls, table, mantel, bookshelves, or in albums allows all of your family to feel the love whenever they need a little boost.

Updated February 16, 2026

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