Picture frame mouldings? What are these? Well, let’s clarify it! These are long 
sticks of wood, often between 2.5 to 3.5 metres long, from which picture framers cut the sections of wood needed to make up picture frames. Picture framers order these sticks, or moulding lengths, in big boxes of various sizes from specific picture framing moulding suppliers. Note the adjective “specialized” within the phrase picture framing moulding? That’s needed because your local hardware store might also sell wood mouldings, but most certainly not picture framing mouldings. When four or more ...
Updating, uplifting and upgrading picture frames
Posted on Category: Frame Types & StylesBy:Why this post about upgrading picture frames? Because it's happened to you as it's happened to most, if not to all of us, at one time of our lives or another. You’ve
moved out of your old home into a new one. Or you’ve moved from an older flat into a newer apartment. Perhaps you relocated from older style business premises to more modern ones. The end result is the same, either you, your wife, or family have decided, the old frames just won’t do in the new location, these will need updating. We come across this situation a few times a month, in most cases, it’s a retiree couple moving to a brand-new apartment. Regardless of the circumstances the ...
How to cheaply replace broken glass in a picture frame
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This post on how to replace broken glass in a picture frame, was prompted by an innocent enough Customer remark on the cost of reglazing 
( replacing old glass with new glass in a picture frame, whether broken or not ) a picture frame that someone had inadvertently stepped on. The remark was to the effect "Why does it cost so much to to get new glass put in a picture frame?" Now, the picture was about 50 x 50cms and the cost quoted was $37.74 which, by the way, we believe to be a fair and reasonable. Nonetheless the Customers persisted with his query in wanting to know the exact pricing formula. We didn't disclose it ...
Of picture frames on picture ledges and of picture frames on walls
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:We can reasonably surmise that walls, shelves, window sills, fireplace mantels, floors and chairs even, have always served as either hanging, resting, or standing 
points for photo frames and picture frames for centuries. But it is only in these last few years that ledges and floating shelves, upon which picture frame may be rested upon, have become a fashion's must-have. All the display homes, homewares and department stores seem to be replete with them, in all shapes, colours and sizes. Many home owners are also a little nervous at the prospect of having to design and install a wall gallery system. Not only there’s the main commitment problem of having to make holes everywhere, but ...
Taking the puzzle out of framing jigsaw puzzles
Posted on Category: Frame Types & StylesBy:On the subject of picture framing jigsaw puzzles, it must be said that there must have been, and still must be, hundreds of people putting together 
puzzles together right now all over Australia. Our various statal, work and home restrictions, lockdowns and quarantines have pretty much driven a lot of people bonkers with boredom. And since ennui and accidie are the enemies of our naturally wandering, imaginative and creative minds, it is little wonder that so many of us have sought some relief from this depressing state of mental affairs by tiling, assembling and solving puzzles. Interestingly, jigsaw puzzles have been around for about 250 years. The commercialization, if not the ...
When to, or not to, repair broken picture frames
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Most of our blogs and posts here are a direct result our interaction with our Customers and the 
feedback we receive from them, for which we are grateful. One sunny ( sometimes a rarity here in Melbourne ) Saturday morning a young mum visited us bringing an A3 frame with a broken glass. She asked if had a frame to match, which we did, the frame being a pretty much standard 3x2 cms box moulding picture frame profile. We showed her one of our frames and she was on the cusp on buying it when she asked, pretty much by way of a ...
Ordering picture frames online responsibly
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:Hmmm .... Ordering picture frames online responsibly ? What’s the responsibility for, or about, most folks would say. 
You place an online order, you pay, you get your stuff and that’s it. There are no duties, obligations or responsibilities, right? Wait, not so fast, we would respond. While not a face-to-face personal interaction, ordering online is a human activity that does carry some responsibilities. This is because we approach and interact with others asking them to do something for us, even if it’s electronically and not personally. And when interact with others under any circumstances, it pays to be nice, doesn’t it? Have you ever found that ...
The Seven Deadly Sins of ordering art online
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:Ah, ordering art online, it’s something that most of us have done or will do at one time or another. 
And by art, we certainly don’t mean the crypto art being flogged online nowadays which isn’t just cryptic but basically incomprehensible to most folks. We mean art on paper, mostly being drawings, limited editions, lithographs, serigraphs, watercolours, gouaches or small oil paintings. In times gone by, Customers would visit art shows, attend art galleries or visit artists’ studios to buy art. And just as often, they might visit their local picture framer and see what posters there might be in the print bin. We fondly remember Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Peter Pan, Superman, Jaws, Mad Max, The Man from ...
Do’s and Don’ts on collecting your new picture frames
Posted on Category: Frame Types & StylesBy: On the subject of collecting your new picture frames we need to quote Confucius. Indeed it is he who is reputed to have been the sage who first immortalized 
the famous dictum “ By three methods we may learn wisdom: the first, by reflection, which is noblest; the second, by imitation, which is easiest; and the third by experience, which is the bitterest." And this is pretty much how it is when we witness how some Customers are arranging the collection and transport of the picture frames we’ve framed for them. Ergo: a) We reflect on how they do this, resolving never to do what they do, b) we never imitate what they do, lest we wreck the frames and c) we practice doing the opposite of what are doing, which may be harder and ...
Picture framing wizardry and the secrets of mounting
Posted on Category: Frame Types & StylesBy: The idea for a blog on picture framing mounting came from a very pleasantly 
surprised Customer some time ago. The gentleman in question had brought in a very rumpled, markedly creased, badly folded, extensively dog-eared and rather aged, large movie poster for framing. All the Customer required was for the poster to be put in a frame and look straight and flat. He didn’t want conservation, didn’t care for preservation or how we did it and, and, oh, yes, he was on a tight budget a couldn’t spend “too much on it”. So we suggested clear glass and a frame with a price ...
