How can I display personal items in my family room?
I think family rooms are really fun spaces because they are also the place where you end up putting your little mementos from your trips, your trophies that you might have, and lots of family photos. There are fun ways that you can put these things there without cluttering everything up. A really great way to store all your mementos from a particular trip is maybe to put them in a shadow box and hang them on a wall. For photos, if you have lots and lots of photos and you love to have them all out, you can get a photo wheel where you put all the photos in that wheel and then you can just spin that wheel to be on a particular photo, and then when you get tired of that photo, you can just switch it. Another really great thing in a family room are those electronic photo frames where you can put in all your family photos from a particular vacation, or a year, or however you want to do it, and then they just automatically are playing every few seconds - it is like a slide show that goes on and it is much better than having a big photo album sitting on a table some where. So there are different ways that you can show off a lot of your family knick knacks that you've got, and shelf spaces are also really fun spaces to use certain things as decorative items. You can have that baseball that your son caught at a game and got autographed, and put it in a little plexi container and use it as a book end. There are different things you can do. You just sort of have to be a little creative about it.
