What About Room Placement?
Looking around any home or apartment, you’re likely to find traditional picture frames in most every room: the living room, the bedroom, hallways, even bathrooms. Anywhere that people want decoration, art, or like to enjoy memories of their family and other loved ones, you’ll find traditional picture frames.
But, as digital picture frames start showing up in house, what rooms will we see them placed in first?
The rooms that see the most public traffic seem the most likely to get wireless photo frames first. This would mean they start showing up in living rooms, dining rooms, or kitchens most.
Bedrooms, where pictures highlight loved ones or cherished memories, seem likely to be the next most popular room for placing digital frames.
Hallways could be a great location for digital frames, though given the current pricing, these would seem to be further down the last.
For now at least, the bathroom seems unlikely while frame prices are relatively high and given the propensity of bathrooms with showers to steam up.
Digital frame manufacturer Ceiva actually has some data on this very question. They surveyed their customers about where they have placed their frames and found:
- Living room – 37%
- Bedroom – 16%
- Kitchen – 14%
The presence of the kitchen here, so close to the amount placed in the bedroom, is interesting and suggests some possibilities for frame content.
Ceiva, which offers content channels to its subscribers, could take advantage of this by offering a recipe of the day service. Imagine a new recipe getting downloaded to your frame every morning, along with photos from each step of the process and the finished dish. A feature like that added to a frame that shows the latest news, sports, and weather in the morning could help sell a lot more frames.
Readers, where have you put your wireless frames? If you don’t have one yet, where do you think you’ll put it? Are there other rooms you can imagine them going into?
