Classic Small Overview
With an all-wood frame, the Classic Small frame range is our modernistic standard contemporary frame from our range. Our beautifully angular and minimalist-styled photo frames give any image you intend for display a professional and classic look. The finish of the Classic frame is smooth to the touch and its flat, square profile is designed to be complimentary for modern interior trends. With its selection of 6 on-trend versatile colours, this frame is the ultimate choice for photographers, offering a beautifully modern finish with enough variety for every client. These handmade frames are available in a range of colours including satin white, satin black, walnut wood, natural wood, gold and silver with a 25mm wide profile. This colour range is also available in a larger size with the same modern square profile under our Classic Large range.
The Classic small range of contemporary wooden photo frames are built in-house by our experienced and professional team, each of which is made to order. All of our photo frames are finished with wall hanging fixings already in place. Two metal hangers will be pre fitted on the reverse of the frame so as soon as it arrives with you, the frame can be put up in position on your wall. These hangers are extremely sturdy, designed to hold the weight of your finished frame in place perfectly, all you need to add are two screws in the wall. Your frame will arrive carefully and precisely packaged in a bespoke white custom presentation box housed inside a brown protective cardboard carton. We use foam corners and polystyrene to ensure that the frame arrives with you in excellent condition on every order, ready to present straight to your client.
Colour Samples
To order the classic small frame colour collection as sample chevrons, take a look at our sample page.
Collage Picture Frames
The Classic Small frame range works incredibly well when accompanied with multi-aperture mount options. You can select up to 9 images for your painted wall frame and you can group together a series of photographs dedicated to a special time or event and put all together in this modern photo frame. Choose your mount template in our intuitive Simware system and select the layout that works best for you.
Paper Options
Our paper options offer you a choice of 6 different industry-leading papers on which we will inkjet print your photography or imagery onto. Our professional paper range includes HahnemĂĽhle, Fuji and Fotospeed paper options to produce optimum results every time. To pick your perfect paper, you can see the available options in person before creating your bespoke frame by ordering a paper sample pack from our dedicated sample page.
Fotospeed Lustre 275gsm
A flat, stiff, middle-weight paper with a lustre finish, this multi award-winning paper’s wide colour gamut and high D-MAX delivers beautiful images every time. With a bright white base and slight surface sheen, this paper is an all rounded customer favourite for both colour images as well as black and white photographs.
Fotospeed High Gloss 270gsm
A stiff, middle-weight paper with a high gloss finish. The paper has a crisp bright white base, wide colour gamut and high D-MAX resulting in stunning printed images, both in colour and B&W. Its glossy surface creates impressive contrasts and produces ultra high definition, a perfect choice for any photography.
Fuji Metallic Photo Paper 290gsm
This paper marks a new era in the printing of high quality glossy digital images. Pearl-like crystals will give your silver halide color prints a distinct sheen, creating a pearl-like appearance. With its iridescent quality and excellent definition, this paper is perfect for high shine, high impact prints certain to capture attention.
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 308gsm
With its distinctive smooth and chalky feel, this paper boasts a lightly defined surface, lending each printed image a three-dimensional appearance and impressive pictorial depth. Combined with the matt premium inkjet coating, this paper produces phenomenal prints that feature brilliant colours, deep blacks and expert reproduction of detail.
HahnemĂĽhle German Etching 310gsm
A white, heavyweight, 100% α-cellulose paper that guarantees archival standards excellent density and colour graduation. The mould-made etching paper features a strong textured pitting rolled into the matt surface for an exquisitely artistic finish. This paper is a popular choice for portrait and baby photographers for its soft, ultra matt finish.
HahnemĂĽhle Fine Art Baryta 325gsm
A bright white based, acid-free and lignin-free paper benefiting from a high-gloss premium inkjet coating combined with a pitted surface texture. Ideal for the printing of both black and white images as well as colour photographs, this tactile paper produces professional fine art Giclée prints with stunning three-dimensional quality, sheen and depth.
Mount styles available with the Classic Small frame
Once you’ve designed your image or collage for your bespoke frame, you can select your mount style at the checkout. The Classic Small range is available with a single mount, double mount or a thick mount option available to choose at the checkout, or select “No mount” if you have designed your image to be positioned at full bleed.
No Mount
If you would like to frame an image from edge to edge with no mount, simply select “No Mount” in the designer and at the checkout. For every frame size we offer, there will be a template available in the online designer that displays your image at full bleed that you can drag and drop your chosen photograph into. This clearly displays the image in full view with no border, which you confirm at the checkout when selecting “No Mount” when ordering. This is a classic option to put your photography at the centre stage to be married seamlessly with the frame moulding.
Single Mount
Choose from our board selection of templates in our design software to find the perfect fit for your image. Whether it’s a single image or a multi aperture design, you can select a “Single Mount” at the checkout and choose from our four colour options. Single mount’s are precision cut to order from our premium acid-free 1400 micron board to display your images within the frame moulding. With a bevelled edge to reveal the boards inner core colour, this is a popular option to give any image or collage compilation a truly professional finish within your frame.
Double Mount
We offer a double mount option at the checkout, perfect for giving images extra depth and style. Choose from any of the templates with our design software and select “Double Mount” at the checkout. You can choose the same colour mount to be combined, or contrasting colours once at the checkout and select in which order you would like them assembled. The top mount is calculated to be 5mm narrower on each edge to create a layered effect, so you can design a matching ensemble or an edgier composition such as a bright white mount on top with a sharp black board underneath.
Thick White Mount
Our premium thick white mount boasts a luxurious 2600 microns, for a deep, luxurious finish to your images. Made with archival 100% acid-free board, this soft white mount is perfect for pairing with fine art giclée prints to produce a stunning display, guaranteed for a lifetime. Every edge is accurately cut as per your chosen template design with a beautiful bevel and flawless adjoining corners to frame your pictures perfectly. Our thick mount option is only available in one colour which is traditional off white, benefitting from with a warm ivory tone, ideal for soft skin contrasts.
Colour choices for single & double mount options
If you’ve selected a single or a double mount, choose from four coloured mount options to display your image within your Classic Small frame. All of our options are made with completely acid free conservation mount board with a neutral PH so as to not damage your artwork over time. Each mount is precision cut with a bevelled edge to create a smooth transition to the image surface while revealing the mount board’s inner core colour. Colour options for the single and double mounts include traditional warm white, black, cream and bright white, all with a smooth cotton surface texture.
Traditional White Mount
Our most popular option and displayed in our roadshow samples, our standard white mount has a warm traditional tone for a soft surround of your photography. With an ivory hue and matching inner core, this mount is the perfect compliment for skin tones and soft background colours.
Bright White
Stark and achromatic, our bright white mount is a sharp actual white with no hues or warm tones. With a matching white inner core, bright white is an excellent choice for combining with a monochrome display, as the clinical white tone is more complimentary for black and white images.
Black Mount
Our classic black mount is a premium grade board with a crisp white inner core, framing your images with a white keyline visible on the bevelled aperture edge. Perfect for monochrome images and for a modern twist on traditional framing, this is a popular option for portrait photographers.
Cream Mount
Warm and pastel toned, our cream mount is perfect for conservational or traditional images. Give your image a calm and relaxing feel with this completely acid free board, cut with a bevelled edge to reveal the warm white core to perfectly encase every image for years to come.
How to hang your Classic Small Frame
Our hanging system is simple and easy to utilise as each frame arrives to you prepared with pre-positioned hangers on the reverse to distribute the weight evenly once hung. These sturdy hangers are 10mm in width, which allows for valuable wiggle room when hanging your frame on the wall to adjust positioning left to right. Simply measure the space inbetween the hangers to plot your holes on your desired wall and safely administer screws into position. Then once you’re satisfied that the screws are secure, lift your frame and rest the inside of the hangers over the screws to hold in place on the wall. As each bespoke frame is supplied ready to hang and with a presentation box included, handing over a beautifully finished product to a client has never been easier.
Bleed
Please ensure your images for your Appleton photo frame include at least a 5mm bleed on each edge to avoid any unwanted cropping on your final print. Due to the handmade nature of our products, we require additional bleed or “spare picture” in your images so they can be made to size with perfect edges once complete.
All our printers and production methods can crop around 3-5mm into the print image so always ensure that heads, feet, dresses and other important parts of your image are not placed too close to the edge of the design. The online designer does give you a faded guideline when creating your frames to illustrate approximately which part of the image may be lost. Although this is not exact, this can help you visualise the non-crucial image that may be cropped into around the edge such as sky or grass etc.
This is also a requirement when opting for a mount, as any mount option will physically overlay your picture covering 3-5mm of each edge of every image to avoid any blank film edges showing through. This would be for every picture in multi-aperture mounts, so please place your images consciously. If you are concerned about this process or have any questions at all, please do get in touch with one of our friendly customer support team members who would be happy to help.
Order your Square Classic Small Frame
Order your square Classic Small frames here from the sizes listed below. Click on the template you would like to order and it will load in the online designer. If you may want to change your template or try a different design, you’ll have this ability within the online designer as well. You will choose your mount style, mount colour and frame moulding colour at the checkout once you are happy with your design.
Order your Landscape Classic Small Frame
Order your landscape Classic Small frames here from the sizes listed below. Click on the template you would like to order and it will load in the online designer. If you may want to change your template or try a different design, you’ll have this ability within the online designer as well. You will choose your mount style, mount colour and frame moulding colour at the checkout once you are happy with your design.
Order your Portrait Classic Small Frame
Order your landscape Classic Small frames here from the sizes listed below. Click on the template you would like to order and it will load in the online designer. If you may want to change your template or try a different design, you’ll have this ability within the online designer as well. You will choose your mount style, mount colour and frame moulding colour at the checkout once you are happy with your design.
Order your Panoramic Classic Small Frame
Order your Panoramic Classic Small frames here from the sizes listed below. Click on the template you would like to order and it will load in the online designer. If you may want to change your template or try a different design, you’ll have this ability within the online designer as well. You will choose your mount style, mount colour and frame moulding colour at the checkout once you are happy with your design.
Sizes & Prices of Classic Small
See our size and price guide below. If you have any questions, simply get in touch with our friendly customer support team to see how we can help.
Portrait & Landscape
| Inches | mm | Frame with Photo | Single Mount | Double / Thick Mount | Fine Art Paper | Ultra clear Acrylic |
| 10 x 8" | 254 x 203 | £32.88 | + £0.60 | + £1.20 | + £3.48 | + £1.67 |
| 12 x 8" | 305 x 203 | £33.95 | + £1.00 | + £2.00 | + £4.38 | + £2.00 |
| 12 x 10" | 305 x 254 | £34.95 | + £1.10 | + £2.20 | + £4.60 | + £2.50 |
| 16 x 12" | 406 x 305 | £44.47 | + £4.00 | + £8.00 | + £4.96 | + £4.00 |
| 18 x 12" | 457 x 305 | £45.45 | + £4.00 | + £8.00 | + £5.41 | + £4.50 |
| 20 x 16" | 508 x 406 | £53.14 | + £4.00 | + £8.00 | + £10.74 | + £6.67 |
| 24 x 16" | 610 x 406 | £61.41 | + £6.00 | + £12.00 | + £11.52 | + £8.00 |
| 24 x 20" | 610 x 508 | £67.91 | + £6.00 | + £12.00 | + £13.90 | + £10.00 |
| 30 x 20" | 762 x 508 | £77.58 | + £8.00 | + £16.00 | + £15.33 | + £12.50 |
| 30 x 24" | 762 x 610 | £81.73 | + £10.00 | + £20.00 | + £19.55 | + £15.00 |
Square
| Inches | mm | Frame with Photo | Single Mount | Double / Thick Mount | Fine Art Paper | Ultra clear Acrylic |
| 10 x 10" | 254 x 254 | £33.89 | + £0.80 | + £1.60 | + £5.35 | + £2.08 |
| 12 x 12" | 305 x 305 | £35.97 | + £1.20 | + £2.40 | + £6.07 | + £3.00 |
| 16 x 16" | 406 x 406 | £51.02 | + £4.00 | + £8.00 | + £6.15 | + £5.33 |
| 20 x 20" | 508 x 508 | £61.64 | + £6.00 | + £12.00 | + £10.42 | + £8.33 |
| 24 x 24" | 610 x 610 | £71.70 | + £8.00 | + £16.00 | + £17.28 | + £12.00 |
| 30 x 30" | 762 x 762 | £90.31 | + £10.00 | + £20.00 | + £20.19 | + £18.75 |
Panoramic
| Inches | mm | Frame with Photo | Single Mount | Double / Thick Mount | Fine Art Paper | Ultra clear Acrylic |
| 20 x 10" | 508 x 305 | £35.45 | + £4.00 | + £8.00 | + £5.41 | + £4.50 |
| 24 x 13" | 610 x 330 | £61.41 | + £6.00 | + £12.00 | + £11.52 | + £8.00 |
| 30 x 12" | 762 x 305 | £59.95 | + £4.40 | + £8.80 | + £7.87 | + £6.88 |
| 30 x 15" | 762 x 381 | £67.91 | + £6.00 | + £12.00 | + £13.90 | + £10.00 |
PRICES ARE EXCLUSIVE OF VAT
