SEE WHAT I DID THERE?! Anyway, I just used four tags on this post that have previously never been used on my blog EVER. Boy oh boy are you in for a treat.
When Sam and I first moved into our new place, we had some problems agreeing on what should be hung on the wall and where. This led to me scouring Tumblr and Pinterest for ideas and him vetoing all of them which, in turn, led to a big empty wall of nothingness behind our couch.
This feline anatomy scroll was my dream. A dream that was crushed by a $90 price tag. |
So I brainstormed and came up with a thrifty solution. You will need the following materials:
♥ This book
♥ An exacto knife
♥ Frames of various shapes and sizes (you can find these at thrift shops)
♥ Colored paper if you'd like to mat the pictures
♥ Hardware for hanging them up
♥ The patience of a saint
♥ Snacks, always snacks
I only had to buy the book because I'm a lucky duck (read: spoiled brat) and my dad has a home-staging business. This means he not only has a ton of thrifted frames just laying around, but he knows how to crop, cut, mat, mount, and frame the hell out of some pictures. You'll want to go through the whole book and pick which pictures you'd like to use. Much to my ecstatic surprise, they had a print of the above cat anatomy scroll. I peed a tiny bit.
Example of the smaller illustrations which can be cropped to fit into eency weency frames. |
Next, start putting your pictures into the frames. For some of the larger frames, you'll need to use matting so that they don't look dopey. As previously mentioned, I didn't do any of this shit, so here's a tutorial I found with Google. When all of your pages are in their respective frames, find a space on the floor to lay them all out. You don't want to make them too symmetrical, but try to keep the spaces between each picture pretty even. Make the arrangement your own and mess with it for a while. When you find a mock-up that pleases you, start putting them on the wall one at a time (remembering where they were on the floor). To make your life easier, you can take a picture of them on the floor before you start hanging them up so that you can reference the picture throughout the hanging process. For the love of all that is holy, be careful to not start too far right or left so that the collage doesn't make it all the way across the wall and then you have to do it all over again and your boyfriend starts responding sarcastically to everything you say while he pulls nails out of the wall only to rehammer them in two feet from their original spot. HEED MY WARNING.
If you read and followed this vague, discombobulated tutorial, you should end up with something like this:
And my apartment is that much closer to becoming a hipster apothecary. Sorry for the phone-quality pictures but also, deal with it? |
That looks real good, girl! Havin' wall jealz
ReplyDeleteThanks! The picture is such crap but it definitely looks amazing in person. It's pretty easy too, you just have to be patient when frame-hunting.
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ReplyDeleteThank you!!!!
ReplyDeleteVery cool! Pinterest inspires me while simultaneously making me feel crappy for not investing enough time or money into creating the consummate shabby chic home.
ReplyDeleteThank you! And same here. I have all of these decor and DIY things pinned and I've done about 0% of them haha.
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