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A trend in decorating these days has been to pay more attention to “designing” baby rooms, play rooms, kid’s baths, tween bedrooms and kid friendly family rooms.  It’s not enough anymore to slap up some pink paint in the nursery and call it a day. Weather you are looking to do a full overhaul or just do some tweaking to one of these rooms in your home the trick is to think bright, graphical styles. It doesn’t have to be cartoon characters on the wall and this style...

One of the things I love about art is that it is very personal.  We see it all the time in the gallery.  A client will walk through the door and just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE a painting we have on the wall.  They will go on and on about how they like the colors, or how it reminds them of something, someplace or someone.  We will talk at length about how it makes them feel and you can see their eyes light up.  And then, not five minutes later, someone else comes through...

She’s Real Fine, My 409…   She’s real fine my 409….my 4----0----9…..   OK, so I don't have a 409...but that Beach Boys song is just one of the songs that starts going through my head this time of year.  It conjures up feelings of a bygone era.  A time and place I have only experienced through movies and TV shows like "American Graffiti", "Grease" and "Happy Days".  If you live anywhere near Metro Detroit, you know where this is leading......

Many times, clients come into our gallery looking to frame that special something or to buy a unique gift, only to find the pricing more than they were thinking of spending.   Of course, there are many factors that play into this equation, but let’s just start with the creative vision of the frame designers or the artists that show in the gallery.  Orchard Lake Framing & Gallery showcases high quality hand crafted frame designs and art, produced by well trained and...

I confess I am an art fair junkie.  When May rolls around I start getting excited. I'll spend a couple of hours on line looking up the dates for all the local art fairs, writing them on my calendar, deciding which ones I need to take time off for and which ones I can take the chance of missing.  It's a summer ritual that I have been doing with my mom since the 1980s. Through the years mom and I have ventured all over Metro Detroit checking out this art fair and that art...

From time to time I get talking to customers about pictures or art they have seen in movies or on TV.  Some of them are pictures that are just in the background; others are used as a prop or a parody, while still others have the entire plot revolving around them.  Some customers want to know if they can get the picture to put in their home; others want to know more about the artists; and some pictures just spark a conversation about history, art and museums in general.   ...

So, I have been working on creating this new website for about 4 months now and I'm finally ready to go live.  Whew, what a relief I'm in the home stretch....I'm almost done, and I still have some hair left.  YEAH.  I also joined facebook not long ago.  Everyone was telling me as a small business I HAVE to be on facebook.  I don't know, I just didn't get it.  Why do I care what you had for lunch?  But then I joined and wow, it's kind of fun keeping...