While you may have graduated from taping posters to dorm walls, professionally framing your art and you may feel the pinch of your student loan days. There is a way to avoid pricey framers by taking the task into your own hands.
Framed art adds polish to a space.
Art is key to a personalized home. Beautifully framed portraits style a space. Even something like a diner receipt can look like a gallery piece when framed correctly.
Keep the look simple by connecting color, addressing scale, and avoiding clutter.
What to consider? Sizing and scale for impact. Color and how it relates to the room’s theme. Selecting the right art to frame, such as memorabilia, prints or your own art, which is the most personal expression a home could have.
Online resources can help you frame those artistic mementos easily and on a budget. Matboard and More, a custom online framing company, was especially helpful in processing our required needs via cyber communication.
10 Steps to framing gallery art on an artist’s budget:
1. Decide on the art and use a tape measure to size your desired frame and mat. For photography, there are many online photo sites where you can develop your film in a variety of sizes. The art work can be sent via email or direct to vendor.
2. Choose from a selection of frames.
3. Keep your hands and work area clean.
4. Tape art into mat.
5. Slowly peel off protective sealer from plastic frame.
6. Insert plastic into frame, then add matted art.
7. Add foam board backing.
8. Before closing tabs, make sure the area is free of dust. The sealer attracts dirt easily.
9. Close tabs.
10. Hang frame.
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- How the frames will look upon delivery.
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- A work in progress.
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- Placing mat above art.
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- Final piece of art.
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- Placing above the mantle.
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- Design with like-minded accents.
Resources:
Online frame company: matboardandmore.com
Photography online lab: Nations Photo Lab
Love Story Never Ends art: Tuvalu Home
Window seat fabric: Robert Allen Design
Alassis over-sized candle: Chesapeake Bay Candle
Beach blanket used as throw: John Robshaw
Seahorse pillow: Chole and Olive
