Matboard Magic
Jersey Shadowbox by Grant’s Frames features custom matboard openings.
The paint store offers an entire wall of paint chips- bookmark-sized swatches of color gradations. The furniture store offers beefy binders of fabric squares sorted by color and pattern, organized and displayed to help the client design custom furniture. The drapery department works in a similar fashion. These collections of choice empower the clients to fully express themselves when designing their homes. Custom picture framing works the same way. But your picture frame is just the BEGINNING of your design choices.
Box stores, hobby stores, and social media bombard consumers with images of art enshrouded in white mat boards. Why? Because white is easy, generic, and non-identifying. Everyone can imagine their photos and art surrounded by white with a black line of frame. But is that how you identify yourself? Why stop with the white matboard? Why stop with one mat? What could a custom matboard treatment say about you and your art?
When considering matboard options you have hundreds of choices of color and an infinite number of color combinations. Combine these choices with custom openings and cutting styles and you can design a unique piece of artwork for your home or office. Here are a few of our favorite projects featuring inspiring matboard designs.
For more examples of creative matboard design browse our showroom or scroll through our Pinterest page.
