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FrameWork Times: October 2023

October 31, 2023

Hey FrameWork Friends! 

 

Welcome to the October edition of the FrameWork Times Video Blog. 

 

October’s projects were awesome, ranging from a unique wholesale framing project to building our very own table. 

Let’s start with the wholesale framing project. Our friends at PnH Interiors designed a wide variety of frames for a client. We printed and framed almost every unique, large scale image. 

 

 Here’s just a few of the images we printed and/or framed.

Next, our Art Director Ashley has been intricately working on a concept called gold and metal leafing. The purpose of this is to enhance the gold highlights of images we print. By adding gold/metal leaf, the images stand out and shine. This detail is time consuming, but the result is always fantastic. Shout out to Ashley for taking the precious  time to finish these pieces for our client!

Next up on our list is this fabulous table our special projects team hand build for a client. Everything is custom made specifically to the clients wishes, such as shape, shade, and angles. Weeks and weeks went into building and designing this, so shout out to our Special Projects team for completing this project!

In custom, we had a plethora of plexi box frame jobs come into the gallery. We chose to showcase this beautiful Triptych art piece illustrating religious images and stories. We custom designed and built the stand and lift that the triptych is placed on, along with the solid wood frame holding the plexi box. 

Our last feature for the month of October takes place in the print room. We announced FLX Finish Printing this month, which is an innovative form of printing that includes both glossy and matte ink in the same image! FLX Finish prints patterns and images beautifully, using the glossy inks to emphasize certain parts of the image. We’re so excited that we can include FLX Finish printing in our huge printing portfolio. 

Thanks for watching the October edition of the FrameWork Times video blog! We’ll see you next time. 

 

As always, be limitless. 

 

Love,

FrameWorks

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Tips to Make Your Space Feel Like Home

September 18, 2023

Hey FrameWorks Friends!

Welcome back to The FrameWork Times. If you’re reading this, thank you for being here!

 

Whether you’ve just moved into a new place, or you’re just in need of a change, it can be difficult to truly make a space feel like ‘home’. Everyone wants a space to come home to that gives comfort, joy, and a sense of familiarity. These all add up to feeling like home. 

If you’re in a situation like this, trying to make a place feel like home, we’ve got some answers for you! 

Establish a Palette

By establishing a color palette and design style, you’re guaranteed to have an aesthetically pleasing home. Nothing is better than coming home to something that feels relaxing and tranquil. Whether that means pops of colors and patterns, or neutral calm tones, just make sure they play well together and there’s a common denominator amongst them all. 

Ever heard of the Color Room Rule? The Color Room Rule states that in your designed space, 60% should be the dominant color, 30% should be the secondary color, and 10% should be an accent.

In the top example, the dominant color is obviously cream, off-white, or whatever shade you choose to call that. The walls are a neutral lime wash with matching light fixtures. The couches, curtains, and table top match the walls, making cream the dominant color. 

The secondary color appears to be grey, since the table legs, candle sticks, rug, and lamp stands range in a variety of shades of grey. 

Last but not least, we have our accent color! The accent color for this example is royal blue. The pillows, vases, and table centerpieces are beautiful accents that are so little, but make the feeling in your space completely different (you can see this as you compare the left photo to the right photo). 

 

Can you figure out the dominant, secondary and accent colors of the third image?

Decorate the Walls

Don’t be scared to embellish the walls of your home. A renter friendly idea is to use command strips on light weight frames. Also, what feels more like home than family? Don’t be ashamed to put up photos of your family, even if it isn’t ‘aesthetically pleasing’ design wise. 

Plus… you could always stop at FrameWorks to get them framed to match your space!

Frames and artwork aren’t the only ways to decorate your walls. You could also put some shelves in there and decorate your space with trinkets, books, vases, and more. Anything can be art!

If you want to see more blogs like this, reach out and let us know! We want to hear from you!

 

Thanks for reading and we’ll catch you next time. As always, be limitless. 

Love,

FrameWorks

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2023 Home Decor Trends

September 5th, 2023

Hey FrameWorks Friends!

At a loss of ideas when it comes to decorating your home? You’ve come to the right place! Here’s a few ideas to spice up your home and give you that serotonin boost you’re searching for. 

Hanging Art Instead of your TV

Now, listen. I am a huge fan of sitting back, relaxing, and putting on a good show. The only negative to having a television is trying to incorporate a flat screen into your decor. It’s a bit tricky. The solution must be to… move the TV! Replacing your TV with a stunning frame will be one of the best things you can do for your decorative space.

If you’re like me, you enjoy watching TV in your living room and still want to make your decor work. If that’s the case, we’ve got some options for you.

Framing your TV

Framing your TV hides the fact that it’s a TV. It looks like any other framed painting! Just make sure you have a Smart TV, so you can choose an image to display on your screen.

Portable Television

Embellish your flatscreen on an art easel! Roll your tv in, roll it out. Treat it like a piece of art, especially if you frame it! This is also a great way to avoid putting a giant hole in your wall when mounting a tv, or to avoid having to buy a piece of furniture to rest your TV on. 

Hanging Lamps

Have you ever ran out of space on your night stand? You could avoid this completely by choosing hanging lamps instead of standing lamps! Choose a lamp that best matches your room’s aesthetic, and turn it into an art piece instead of a night stand nuisance. 

Matching Mediums

Unsure what frame to put your art in? An easy solution is to match mediums! You want to frame something in your bedroom? What color is your bed frame? The images above are frames we’ve done for clients. The frames were specifically chosen to perfectly match and enhance the space they are in, and is these cases, the wooden bed frames. 

Frame your Memorabilia

Certain items in your possession can hold a special place in your heart. These items are often carefully boxed up in the closet, or collecting dust on a shelf. Leave it to us to find a solution for you!

You can display these memorabilia items by framing them! Not only does this beautifully display your memorabilia, it is also protecting and preserving your precious items. 

Good thing we’re a custom frame shop! 

Thanks for reading and we’ll catch you next time!

As always, be limitless. 

Love,

FrameWorks

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Inspiring Restaurant Ideas

August 29, 2023

Hey FrameWorks Friends!

If you’re stuck in place, unsure where to start when coming up with a theme/design for your restaurant, keep reading!

We’ve come up with several inspiring restaurant ideas that FrameWorks was a part of. At the end of this, you can even reach out to us to bring these ideas come to life!

Gallery Walls

Making the perfect, on-theme gallery wall may seem scary, but it’s actually quite fun and simple! Decide the theme you want to represent: boho, classical, black and white, pop-art, or even just photos. There’s an endless list of ideas. The three pictures above are good examples of how diverse you can make your gallery wall! The top image is a tropical feeling, so the gallery wall represents that. Meanwhile, the picture underneath is representing a more elegant, modern feel by having a gallery of black and white photos. Notice how the gallery walls reflect on the space they’re in.  The bottom image is of an Oyster bar, therefor there are timeless photos of fishing related images. FrameWorks had a blast framing these.  You can also notice how there is art spaced out throughout the restaurant, each cluster of frames having a different color scheme but still staying on the brand of ‘ocean’. 

Art on the Ceilings

Incorporating art on the ceilings is something that truly brings a space to life. There’s so many different ways to do this, from wall coverings, to canvas, to hanging panels, to even just painting!. There truly are limitless possibilities of how you can style your ceilings.

Lightbox Menu Board

A certain elegance comes with lighting up your menu boards. These Light Box Menu Boards introduce timeless, classic feelings. They beautifully brighten your space, without being to blindingly bright. 

Color Scheme

Keeping an on-brand color scheme is an important decision to make when designing a space. These images represent staying on the color-scheme, from mainly bright orange but some hues of blues, to dark and haunting shades of grey and wood, to salmon and cream colored stone and wood. 

Thanks for reading and we’ll catch you next time!

As always, be limitless.

Love,

FrameWorks

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FrameWorks Signage

August 21, 2023

Hey FrameWorks Friends!

Below, we have a portfolio of signage examples we have completed over the years. 

Check it out!

Thanks for looking and we’ll see you next time!

As always, be limitless.

Love,

FrameWorks

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Why We Celebrate at FrameWorks

August 7, 2023

Hey FrameWorks Friends!

We sat down with our Co-Founder Cris Sweeny to ask a few questions about why we celebrate all the seemingly small, or unimportant holidays. 

“At FrameWorks, we celebrate not only all the small holidays, but all of our people, and all of our accomplishments.” Sweeny said. “You never know when life is cut short unexpectedly. You don’t know if there’s a next moment, so we want to relish and cherish the moments that we do have.”

By relishing and cherishing as a team, we’ve grown to appreciate and celebrate each other on a regular basis. Not just on those holidays, but by making sure to acknowledge one another at least once a week, we notice and point out hoe each and every member is important and a valuable asset to the team. 

 “Each and every step of our process, and every step of our people matter to who we are and what we stand for. We truly celebrate each other, our accomplishments, and our love for FrameWorks.” Sweeny finished. 

 

Thanks for reading and we’ll see you next time. As always, be limitless. 

Love,

FrameWorks

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Introducing Meg Davis

July 12, 2023

This week, we welcomed a kind, charming, and overall fabulous new member to our FrameWorks Family. We’re introducing Meg davis, an astounding Senior Art Consultant with over 20 years of experience in the Hospitality Design & Art Consulting industry!

Meg is based out of Chicago, but that didn’t top her from flying to Miami this week to meet her new FrameWorks Fam face-to-face.

“I’m most excited for the ability to create artwork in house, and the opportunities I can now bring to former and new clients,” Meg says. 

We think she’s getting the hang of the limitless possibilities that occur here at FrameWorks.

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Thanks for reading and we’ll see you next time. As always, be limitless.

Love,

FrameWorks

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PRIDE 2023

June 15, 2023

Hey FrameWorks Friends!

And happy PRIDE MONTH! At FrameWorks, we wanted to come out and give a special shout out to all the people celebrating this month, and those who have to do it silently. As a successful business, we make it a priority to include inclusivity as an adjective when describing FrameWorks. FrameWorks is a safe place for our employees, whether they’re LGBTQ+ or not. 

Since it’s Pride Month, we thought we’d dive in on the importance of an inclusive business!

What makes a work environment ‘inclusive’? Matter of fact, what does ‘inclusive’ mean? 

An easy definition would be the action of not excluding any person from activities and opportunities, where they otherwise might not be included. At FrameWorks, our definition is relatively the same, but a little different. To the FrameWorks team, inclusivity means everything. Everyone is the same.

Everyone is treated with the same manners of respect. If you’re excluded from activities outside of the workplace due to natural matters such as gender, race, or sexual orientation, you don’t have to worry about that here! We want to encourage friends who may be frightened of being marginalized to step out and be themselves. Here at FrameWorks, we’ll embrace every thing about you! There’s no need to hide, here. We’re FrameWorks family!

Although this is a bit different than our usual blog posts, we wanted to use our platform to share the importance of fighting the marginalization our world has become so accustomed to. If you’re reading this, thank you! And if you’re celebrating Pride this month, Happy Pride. We are so proud of you and so glad to call you a FrameWorks friend! 

 

Thanks for watching and we’ll see you next time. As always, be limitless. Love,

FrameWorks

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Cruise Ship Interior Expo 2023

June 8th, 2023

Hey FrameWorks Friends! And welcome to the Cruise Shop Interiors Expo recap! We had an absolute blast these past two days attending the event, and an action packed past couple of months preparing for the show.

This year, our theme was essentially FrameWorks World. 

With four rooms in our world of FrameWorks booth, each room was a different theme. From concept to crate, is one of our famous FrameWorks sayings. This room was the creation room. A beautifully created art piece done by our graphic designer, with a little splash of plexi glass to give the room an extra pop, decorated the walls of the space. This was a hot selfie spot.  Our floral explosion room represented concepts. You give us a concept, we come up with a killer idea and an amazing image. This room attracted the most pictures and selfies. We also had a video playing that showed our FrameWorks portfolio.

Moving onto our next room, curation. Going back to our roots as a small frame shop in 1983, this room represented nostalgia. Along with nostalgia came proof that you can frame literally anything! Like we say at FrameWorks, the possibilities are limitless. Framing anything can turn it into an art piece. Everyone was obsessed with the old vintage, nostalgic vibe of this room. We topped it off with a couple accessory books and jars to give people a look into the accessories service we also supply!

 

This room was the creation room. Another beautifully created art piece done by our graphic designer, with a little splash of plexi glass to give the room an extra pop. This was another hot selfie spot. 

Our fourth and final room, was crating. In this room, we showcased how FrameWorks actually has their own crating department! We showed how we build custom frames for our clients, and we had an interactive activity for those passing by to participate in. We had a plethora of affirmation stickers for anyone to plaster to the crate room walls. Along with our sticker activity came a new set of our famous deck of cards. These cards are a business card and entertainment piece all in one! The back QR code had our contact information, while every card on the inside contained an image of a past project, along with a QR code to scan to bring you to our YouTube channel, where a special in depth video about that project would play!

Overall, this years CSI show was a massive success. Along with the joys of seeing old friends came meeting new friends and potential long lasting relationships with other businesses! We’re already excited for next year and wanted to thank everyone who stopped by the booth for a hug, a high five, a deck of cards, a selfie, a sticker, or just to chat. 

 

Thanks for reading and we’ll see you next time. As always, be limitless. Love,

FrameWorks  

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Sandals Dunns River Grand Opening: Glass Headboards

May 30th, 2023

We’re nearing the end of May, which calls for celebrations like Memorial Day, the start of Summer, and more. Well, this May, Sandals celebrated the opening of their Dunn’s River location in Jamaica!

Released images show stunning views, suites, spas, food, and more. What really caught our eye was the collection of FrameWorks collaboration items. This week, we’ll be showcasing the leafy green, botanical headboards located in some of the suites. These images were printed in house on glass, which is exponentially more complex than printing on plexi or aluminum. Of course, FrameWorks made it happen.

After multiple accounts of trial and error, we mastered the art of printing on glass. These headboards look stunning in the suites, while also remaining sturdy and safe. Stay tuned for next week, when we show our next project with Sandals Dunns River.

Thanks for reading and we’ll see you next time. As always, be limitless. Love,

FrameWorks

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