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8 reasons to decorate your mountain chalet with beautiful photo frames

Written by Thomas Crauwels
Decorate your mountain chalet with beautiful photo frames

Whether rustic and authentic or modern and refined, the mountain chalet always has that special atmosphere, both soothing and stimulating. Decorating your chalet allows you to bring this particular atmosphere.

When you enter a cottage, you feel like curling up after a trip in the wilderness.

However, in a chalet, as in any other home, it is the decoration that brings personality to the place and makes it a unique living space.

Discover 8 reasons why beautiful photo frames are perfect for decorating your mountain cabin.

1. Benefit from a unique decoration

Your cottage should look like you and highlight your personality.

To do this, you must decorate it in your image, and avoid the "model home" effect with trendy but impersonal objects.

To dress up your walls, original photo frames will bring much more personality to your home than frames and other canvases bought in large home decor stores.

2. Decorate your cottage to enhance its warm atmosphere

Stones, woodwork, fireplace... A mountain chalet generally develops a warm and cosy atmosphere.

To accentuate this aspect of your home, decorating with photo frames is the ideal solution.

Photo framing in a mountain chalet
A frame containing an exclusive photo captures a whole story and adventure and gives your home an absolutely incredible atmosphere.

Be careful, it is not a question of transforming your living room into an art gallery, but of selecting THE photo that speaks to you and that will change your interior.

Indeed, a well-chosen photo does not only dress up the wall, but it brings an extra life and a soul to the room in which it is located. 

3. Add a refined touch

Whether you are a rustic cottage or contemporary, a premium quality photo will bring a refined touch to your home.

Hung in a quality frame , it will blend into the atmosphere of your home while providing an elegant note.

In a wooden frame for a rustic cottage or in an aluminum frame to decorate an interior contemporary, the photo meets all the desires and blends into all universes.

4. Share emotions

Decorating your home with photos is a way to bring art into your home.

And what better way to transmit and share emotions than through art?

Joy, mystery or nostalgia are all emotions that can be transmitted through a photo as much as through a painting or a sculpture.

Thomas Crauwels during an exhibition in an art gallery
The photographer Thomas Crauwels during an exhibition in an art gallery where we share many emotions around his works.

Having beautiful photo frames in your mountain chalet is the way to bring a new emotion and to share it with your visitors.

5. Invite sharing and discussion

A beautiful photo, like any work of art, attracts attention and invites conversation.

To expose a photo that you like is to open up a little to others and to expose yourself a little.

Just like displaying your library or a collection, you reveal a bit of your personality by sharing something that is dear to you, that generates an emotion.

When you start talking with another person, in front of a painting or a photo, and you exchange feelings, impressions and emotions, you reveal yourself while learning a lot about the other person.

Decorating with beautiful photo frames creates an atmosphere of sharing and trust.

6. Provoke a sense of escape

Photography transports. Posting pictures of places that attract us is a way to touch our dreams of travel and escape.

What could be better than pictures of inaccessible places to escape from everyday life for a few moments. The images have this power to transport us to the end of the world in a few seconds.

Look at a picture of the Alps, you will immediately be transported to your favorite summit . 

7. Enhance the beautiful with the beautiful

Successful decorating is the art of enhancing each element with the others.

If you have, in your cottage, a beautiful wooden or stone wall, for example, a beautiful original frame photo will be of the most beautiful effect. The two will enhance each other, creating a harmonious whole.

With a well-chosen light, you will highlight everything to enjoy each element in an optimal way.

8. Valuing the work of a passionate artist

Choosing to purchase photos taken by a professional photographer is a way of showing support for an artist who makes a living from his or her passion.

Each photo sold by the photographer has its own story andadventure.

Thomas Crauwels to go and take a unique mountain picture
Behind each picture is a whole adventure in the mountains, organized to go to search of a specific moment and place that Thomas Crauwels you share.

Maybe he spent hours waiting for the right moment. Maybe he waited for weeks for the weather to be ideal to generate the hoped-for emotion...

Each photograph, like any work of art, contains passion, hope and know-how, which you value when you choose to purchase it.

To conclude

As you can see, original photo frames have their place in a mountain chalet.

By choosing pictures from a professional photographer sold in limited editionprints in custom-made frames, you personalize your home with unique pieces.


Be inspired by the ambiances of my clients' interiors on the page of the projects of decorations realized

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