A Living Wall of Memories: The Aura Walden in Our Kitchen
Why the Aura Walden digital photo frame has become the centrepiece of our kitchen — and the one installation tip I'd give anyone else.
Our kitchen is the heart of the house, so it’s where we decided to mount the Aura Walden digital photo frame. It’s become the one thing everyone stops to look at — a rotating gallery of our children and our family outings that quietly refreshes throughout the day.
Why the Walden
The Aura Walden is Aura’s largest frame, with a 15-inch anti-glare display at 1600 x 1200 resolution. A few things sold me on it:
- A big, natural canvas. The 4:3 aspect ratio matches the shape of the photos coming straight off our phones, so pictures fill the screen without awkward cropping or letterboxing.
- Effortless sharing. Anyone in the family can push photos and videos to it from the Aura app on their phone. It works on both iOS and Android, over 2.4GHz or 5GHz WiFi.
- Free, unlimited storage. There’s no subscription and no cap — you just keep adding memories.
- Short video clips too. It plays back 30-second videos with its built-in speakers, so it’s not limited to stills.
- A swipe touchbar along the frame lets you skip forward or back through the collection by hand.
The frame is set to change pictures every ten minutes, and honestly that’s the feature that’s won over the children the most. They love catching a new photo each time they wander into the kitchen — a holiday, a birthday, a muddy walk — and it sparks a little “remember when?” every time.
Installation: hide the cable
The one thing that can spoil a wall-mounted frame is a power cable dangling down from it. My recommendation, and what I did, is to drill a hole in the wall directly behind the frame and feed the power lead through it. The cable runs inside the wall to a socket out of sight, so from the front you see nothing but the picture — no trailing wire, no adhesive clips, no clutter.
It takes a little more effort than simply hanging it, but the result is a frame that looks genuinely built-in rather than plugged-in. If you’re mounting the Aura Walden on a wall, this is the step I’d tell everyone not to skip.
Worth it?
Absolutely. The Aura Walden has turned a blank patch of kitchen wall into the most-looked-at spot in the house. It keeps our best photos in front of us instead of buried on a phone, and the ten-minute rotation means there’s always something new to notice. Highly recommended.