Choosing a Frame

Choosing a frame that suits your needs can be a fun and challenging process. Frame place offers thousands of options and has experienced customer service representatives available for assisting you in your decision making process.

Filter Features

On the homepage of our website, you can filter your search by molding width, color, and keywords. This will help to narrow your search when you have certain parameters you know that you would like to find.

Frame Choices

Wood Frames

Metal Frames

Poster Frames

Shadowboxes

U-frame Kits

Wood Frames

We have over 60 mouldings of wood frames suitable for all your framing needs. You can search different types of wood according to key words and moulding width on the left-hand column on the wood frame page.

BonanzaWood™

BonanzaWood™, made by Framerica®, is a solid material, with a very smooth, fine-textured surface. It cuts like pine, and readily accepts nails and hangers. BonanzaWood™ provides the expressive finish and look of solid wood, at a fraction of solid wood cost.

About 9 million tons of residual wood each year … wood shavings, chips and sawdust; formerly-wasted trim, ends and other byproducts; post-consumer and "urban" wood, such as pallets and construction materials … are collected, cleaned and milled to uniform-size particles. Excess moisture is removed, and a binder is added. In an automated, computer-controlled process, the combination is then formed under intense heat and pressure.

Frames You Can Decorate

Many customers wonder which frames are OK to paint or stain. For decorating frames, we recommend our decorate-it series. This series comes in three sizes, with 1, 2, and 3-inch mouldings. You can also decorate our unfinished series. The unfinished series is our decorate-it series with a bevel, and also comes in 3 different mouldings.

Wrapped Moulding

Our BonanzaWood™ mouldings are wrapped mouldings--meaning the back of the moulding will not appear as normal wood, like most wood frames. Rather, the back will be a flat continuation of how the frame looks on the front. The mouldings are wrapped on either printed laminate, mica, or vinyl.

Are the metal frames aluminum?

There are frames made from metals such as brass, copper, and silver, but when picture framers speak of metal frames they are typically referring to extruded aluminum frames.

The first metal mouldings to catch the public's eye were made for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, in the late 1950s. Metal moulding became available in kit form in 1968. More recently, ready-made back loaded metal frames became available. Anodizing and painting are the processes used to color aluminum moulding. Anondizing produces a translucent dye-like coloring, while painting, produces a solid opaque finish.

Difference between Metal I and Metal II series?

The only difference between the Metal I and Metal II series are the color differences. The Metal I series contains a brighter assortment of colors, while the Metal II series contains flat/contrasted colors.

How do you hang a metal frame?

Metal frames are held together with v-clips, and double as a hanging system.

The contents of a back loaded metal frame are secured with retaining clips, also called v-clips. A back loaded frame does not require additional wire for wall hanging, because the v-clips also can be used to hang the frame. Frames larger than 20x30 also include security hangers for added support.

U-frame Kits

Another type of metal moulding we offer is the U-frame Kit. These are good for custom framing projects. To learn more about U-frame Kits you can go to the Knowledge Base's U-frame Kit section.

What is polystyrene?

Polystyrene is a hard plastic frame that is lightweight.

What is mylar?

Mylar is a thin plastic channel with colored film on the plastic.

Deluxe Posterframes

What is included?

The only difference between a wood frame and a deluxe posterframe is that all sizes come with styrene. Glass is not an option since this is a polystyrene frame.

How do you hang them?

The hardware is air-nailed into the back of the frame. There are two hardware pieces on each frame so that the frame can be hung vertically or horizontally.

Where are the materials from?

Deluxe Posterframes are our only item that the materials are not made in the USA. The polystyrene pieces to make our Deluxe Posterframes are from China.

How do you put artwork into a posterframe?

With our corrugated, foamcore, and hardboard posterframes, each of the four sides needs to be removed in order to insert your artwork. Once you have placed your artwork in between the backing and styrene, simply reassemble all four sides.

What can I use to adhere my stuff in Shadowboxes?

Shadowboxes are perfect for displaying 3-D items such as medals, jerseys, and other memorabilia. You can use a variety of products to adhere items in your shadowbox, such as velcro, rubber glue, or even sewing the item inside. Check your item’s label before choosing a mounting option. 

What is included with a U-frame Kit?

A kit frame is made from pre-cut sections of metal moulding. The corners of a kit frame are joined with specially designed brackets and assembled with a flat head screwdriver. These brackets provide exceptional strength and can be disassembled if necessary.

Loading a kit frame requires several short steps. First, three sections are joined and the fourth side is left open. Then, the contents are slid into the frame using the open side. Last, the fourth section is joined, and spring clips are inserted behind the contents of the frame to remove any extra space. Spring clips also prevent rattling and shifting of the contents.

The kits offered by Frame Place are called U-Frame Kits. Each kit comes with two sections of moulding, hardware required to join two corners, two wall protectors called bump-ons, one snap hanger for attaching wire, spring clips, and instructions. Two kits are required to make one frame.

The rigid profile of kit moulding adds durability and functionality. It can withstand more weight than a back loaded frame, and glass can be used in larger sizes. A kit frame also gives retail store customers a customizable alternative to ready-made frames.

U-frame kits DO NOT INCLUDE glass/styrene or backing.