Gallery Framers

Gallery Framers has been cutting mats and joining corners on Glades Road since 1989, and in that time it has grown into one of the busier picture framing shops on the west side of Boca Raton. The shop sits in a small retail strip near the intersection of Glades and Lyons, a stretch of the city that locals know for errands rather than tourism, which suits a working frame shop just fine. Word of mouth built this business. There was no big marketing push in the early years, just steady referrals from happy customers, and the owners say that pattern held so consistently that the shop eventually doubled in size and staff to keep up with demand.

What sets an independent framer apart from the big craft chains is usually inventory and judgment, and Gallery Framers leans on both. The shop stocks more than 500 moulding profiles bought directly from manufacturers in volume, spanning modern, ornate, traditional, and transitional styles. Because the moulding is purchased in bulk rather than a few sticks at a time, the shop is able to price jobs well below what a typical frame shop charges, even before accounting for the steep “sale” discounts that national chains use to make their everyday prices look reasonable. For anyone who has priced out a large diploma frame or a gallery wall of family photos at a big box store, that pricing difference adds up fast.

The staff at Gallery Framers brings a combined 50 years of framing experience to the counter, which matters more than it might sound. Choosing a mat color or a moulding profile is partly a design decision and partly a technical one: acid-free materials, proper spacing for artwork on canvas versus paper, UV-filtering glass for anything that will hang in direct sun, and shadow box depth for three-dimensional keepsakes like jerseys, medals, or pressed flowers. A shop that has seen thousands of jobs come through the door tends to catch problems before they happen, whether that is a piece of needlepoint that needs extra support or a print that will fade if it is not protected properly.

The shop also handles the practical side of framing that individual customers do not always think about until they need it: rush turnarounds for gifts and events, volume pricing for offices, schools, and interior designers outfitting multiple rooms at once, and wholesale arrangements for other businesses that need framing done reliably and repeatedly. That mix of retail walk-ins and steady commercial accounts is part of why the shop has stayed busy through more than three decades of Boca Raton’s growth and turnover in the retail market around it.

For residents of Boca Raton looking to frame anything from a child’s artwork to a serious art acquisition, Gallery Framers offers the kind of straightforward, experienced service that a locally owned shop can provide: a real person behind the counter who has framed thousands of pieces, a large in-stock selection so most jobs do not require a special order, and pricing built around efficient buying rather than markup. It is a Boca Raton fixture for a reason that has nothing to do with advertising and everything to do with getting the work right the first time.