PhotoVu: Design your own digital photo frame!

The problem with most digital photo frames is that, well, they look like digital photo frames. Most of the time the frames are tacky, plastic molds in colours that look more like they belong in an adolescent bedroom than hanging from your living room wall. ‘Interior design’ doesn’t seem to fit well into the vocabulary of most digital photo frame manufacturers.

Fortunately digital photo frame manufacturers PhotoVu is distinguishing them from the rest of the pack by producing frames that you’ll be proud to display in your home. And they’re not your average-sized, every-day eight inch frames either; they start at an eye-pleasing nineteen inches in diameter, so there’s no squinting at those magnificent wildlife photos you took on your last safari trip in Africa.

But here’s the best thing about PhotoVu frames – you design the actual frame yourself! Using an interactive tool on their website you can select your wall colour, and then select one of dozens of types of frames to see what will look best on your wall. It’s like visiting a digital photo framing shop! The frames are all great-looking ones that won’t look out of place in an interior decorating magazine, with the style of frames varying from elegant wood finishes to antique and post-modern.

If you’re a Rolls-Royce person who’ve not considered a digital photo frame because they’re oh-so-Ford, then PhotoVu frames are the once to consider. It’s the closest I’ve seen a digital photo frame come to the ambience that a conventional frame gives to a framed photograph. Using it to display the kids-in-the-backyard-pool pics will be a waste of the $800 or so a PhotoVu frame will set up back, but those black and white portrait studies you have lying around on a hard drive somewhere will look splendid.