Matting for A Personalized Picture Frame

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Part of the video series: How to Build a Personalized Picture Frame

Summary: How to decide if you need a mat for a personalized picture frame; get expert tips from masters in woodworking and framing in this free instructional video.

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Debbie Reeves John and Kathleen Mudersbach have been in the framing business for 40 years and their children, Larry and Debbie, joined them in their business in Cottonwood ... read more

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Matting for A Personalized Picture Frame

On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Debbie and this is Woody and we're here to tell you about personalizing your picture frames. This is an example of not using matting, but using different frames in the place of matting. This particular piece we have used three different frames in different colors to become part of the picture. It almost looks like it became one. And we've also used the anti-reflection glass on here so that there's very little or no reflection which, when you walk into a room, just imagine this on a wall with a nice leather couch sitting underneath it and I can just imagine sitting in that couch and reading a book and looking at this beautiful picture and feeling like you're right there in Slot Canyon. So the frame, what it does is it becomes part of the picture. They become one. They're no longer two pieces. It's all finished again on the back. What we do is we have put the biography of the artist, we have the bumper so that it gets air circulation behind and we have a different kind of hooks on this one, so it doesn't get any dust or bugs or anything. It keeps it nice and protected. So the back of your picture is as important as the front.

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