Frame Factory & Gallery

Frame Factory & Gallery sits on East Bay Drive in Largo, a stretch of road that has seen plenty of turnover among small storefronts over the decades. This one has stayed put since 1974, which puts its roots down well before most of the strip malls around it were built. For anyone who has lived in Pinellas County long enough to remember when Bay Drive was a quieter two-lane road, that kind of longevity says something about how the shop has been run.

The core of the business is custom picture framing, and the shop keeps a large working selection of mouldings on hand so customers can see and feel options in person rather than choosing from a catalog photo. Staff handle everything from simple document framing to more involved projects like shadow boxes for military medals, sports jerseys, and family heirlooms. Art and photo restoration is part of the regular workload too, which matters in a county full of longtime residents with faded prints and water-damaged family photos worth saving.

Alongside the framing counter, the space doubles as a small gallery, with original fine art, prints, and posters on display and for sale. That combination, a frame shop up front with gallery walls around it, is fairly typical of independent framing businesses that have been around long enough to build relationships with local artists and collectors. The shop also offers giclee printing for photographers and artists who want archival-quality reproductions of their own work, plus corporate framing services for offices that need multiple pieces matted and framed to match.

Frame Factory & Gallery is a member of the Professional Picture Framers Association, a trade group that expects framers to demonstrate a working knowledge of conservation techniques, materials, and design. The business also carries an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, which is worth knowing for a shop that regularly handles irreplaceable family photos and heirlooms.

The shop is open Tuesday through Saturday, generally from 9:30 in the morning to 5:00 in the evening, with after-hours appointments available for customers who cannot make it in during regular hours. It serves customers from across Pinellas and Hillsborough counties, but it remains a single, independently run location rather than part of a regional chain. For anyone in Largo with a diploma, a print, or a set of grandma’s needlework still sitting in a closet because it has never been framed properly, this is one of the few local shops built specifically around solving that problem.