Eye Level Framing

Eye Level Framing provides some of the best framing services I’ve ever experienced. Now, I don’t have things professionally framed all that frequently – mainly because it’s expensive. But there are certain things that, in my mind, really deserve the deluxe treatment: a piece of art made by a friend, for instance, or a rare vintage poster that needs to be preserved properly. Eye Level is great for such instances. The two people I’ve worked with there, Tommy and Renee, both have sharp, artistic eyes, and are just ridiculously personable. Most recently, Renee worked with me to frame a vintage science poster that belonged to my grandfather. I walked in with a vague vision of what I wanted (something vintage-​y and institutional looking), and she almost immediately knew the right direction in which to take it. Working with her to pick just the right frame and matting was actually fun, which I hadn’t expected. But isn’t that how it should be? You’re paying a lot of money for something that’s going to be an important piece of your home: shouldn’t it be fun, instead of being a chore? Eye Level moved from its great Atwood Avenue location to a more out-​of-​the-​way (for me, anyway) space among a somewhat disorienting landscape of anonymous-​looking buildings off of Fish Hatchery a few years ago; while that’s a drawback, it certainly won’t stop me from going back there in the future.