See it framed before you hand it over.
Choose the moulding, the mount and the glass, put your own photograph inside it, and turn the whole thing in the light. Then ring and we will tell you what it comes to.
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
- 8am–4pm
- Saturday
- 9am–12 noon
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Closed
The four o'clock finish and the closed Wednesday catch more people out than anything else. Typical hours — ring before a special trip.
Four choices, the same four you would make at the counter.
The moulding round the outside, the colour of the mount, how much of it shows, and what goes over the front.
Drag the frame to turn it. A moulding is a shape, not a swatch, and it only reads properly once the light moves across it — which is also the quickest way to see what non-reflective glass actually does.
Your photograph never leaves this page. The browser reads it off your own machine and draws it straight into the frame; nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Drag to turn it
Both stand-ins are placeholders for whatever you are having framed. Got the real thing to hand? — it stays on your machine.
Plain oak, off-white mount, standard glass
Priced on the size of the piece and what goes round it.
The moulding, the mount and the glass over the front are what move the figure, and they move it in that order. A wide gilt profile round a large piece is a different job from a slim black one round a photograph.
Take yours in, or ring with the measurements, and you will get a figure before anything is booked in. It is a two-minute conversation and it saves a wasted trip.
What the shop does
A frame made to size
Moulding cut and joined to the size of the thing itself. Nothing gets trimmed down to fit a frame off a shelf.
Mounts, cut and bevelled
The card border between picture and frame, its window cut at 45 degrees so the opening looks finished rather than punched out.
Glass, or acrylic
Ordinary glass is clear and heavy. Non-reflective takes the room out of it. Acrylic is lighter and will not shatter.
Backing and fittings
The board behind, sealed at the edges, then the cord, D-rings or plates that get it on the wall the right way up.
Box frames
Deeper frames with room behind the glass for anything that is not flat — a shirt, medals, a cap, a christening gown.
Re-framing and re-glazing
Something old, faded or cracked taken apart, cleaned up and put back in a frame that suits it now.
A frame is a decision about the wall, not just the picture.
The same photograph reads differently in a slim black profile than it does in a wide gilt one. One suits a white wall in a back bedroom; the other suits a chimney breast. That is why the tool above changes the surround and leaves the picture alone.
Mount width does more than people expect. A generous mount gives a small picture presence and stops a busy wall crowding it. A narrow one keeps a big piece from taking over a small room.
If you are hanging several things together, bring them all in at once. The mounts and the mouldings can then be settled as a group rather than one at a time.
Bring it in, or send the measurements.
If you have used the tool above, the button puts your choices straight into the message. Measurements of the piece itself are the useful part — height and width, and whether it is flat.
- ADDRESS
- 310 Ovenden Road, Ovenden, Halifax HX3 5TJ
- OPEN
- Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 8–4 · Sat 9–12
- CLOSED
- All day Wednesday and Sunday