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Frame Mouldings

- from clean and simple to ornate and luxurious - 

What type of frame would best suit my picture?

While there are no rigid rules in framing, these design guidelines will help you select the ideal frame style, colour, and material for your artwork.


1. Selecting the Right Tone and Colour

  • Natural Wood: Adds immediate warmth and an organic, earthy feel to the artwork.
  • Darker Tones: Control the picture, helping to firmly define its presence on the wall space.
  • Lighter Tones: Create high impact as a contrasting element if you have dark walls.
  • White Frames: Amplify a picture, allowing the image to fill the wall. This is ideal for making a large landscape print dominate a white wall to achieve a light, ethereal feel.


2. Matching Frame Profiles to Print Styles

  • Modern Prints: Work best paired with clean lines and simple, everyday frame profiles.
  • Traditional Prints: Benefit from classic or distressed profiles that pull out the artwork's inherent character. 


3. Proportion, Scale, and Materials

  • Thin Frames: Best suited for delicate, minimalist, or intricate images.
  • Wider, Chunkier Frames: Create a bold statement look when paired contrastingly with smaller images.
  • Aluminium Frames: The premier choice for sleek, elegant, and contemporary designs. They look fantastic paired with classic black-and-white photography for a fuss-free finish. Additionally, aluminium provides the high durability and strength required for oversized frames.

 
 

We offer a carefully curated selection of profiles

Vibrant and bold

L-Profile & Tray framel

Vibrant and bold

 Colourful frames are the perfect tool to create an eye-catching focal point, inject energy into neutral spaces, or highlight a specific accent colour within a room's decor. Bold, vibrant tones—such as primary reds and electric blues—perfectly complement the high-energy aesthetic of pop art, graphic prints, and typography poster art. 

Aluminium

L-Profile & Tray framel

Vibrant and bold

The premier choice for sleek, elegant, and contemporary designs. They look fantastic paired with classic black-and-white photography for a fuss-free finish. Additionally, aluminium provides the high durability and strength required for oversized frames.

L-Profile & Tray framel

L-Profile & Tray framel

L-profile frames—commonly known as canvas float or tray frames. Their unique "L" shaped design holds the canvas from behind, creating a deliberate shadow gap around the edges that gives the optical illusion of a floating painting. Unlike traditional frames, L-profiles sit entirely outside the canvas perimeter, ensuring 100% of the image remains visible without covering the borders. This modern, gallery-style look is ideal for original oil and acrylic paintings, contemporary abstract art with wrapped edges.


Antiqued and Distressed

Antiqued and distressed frames offer characteristics that often work well with strong images.

They can help bring a sense of balance to the overall display while enhancing the character of the art.

Naturel Wood

Naturel Wood

Natural wood frames can add a more organic and grounded feel to modern or abstract work and a sense of warmth and emotion to family photos and wedding images.

Hand finished

Naturel Wood

Our bare wood frames can look beautiful with a simple coat of hand-applied wax.  They can be painted or stained to complement or match any colour scheme.  

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