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I have this issue in my house. The walls are bare. I mean barren. It’s kind of sad.
Wait, I take that back. I actually have a lot of things hung in clusters on my walls in my kids rooms, the loft, the hallways, but my living room lacked the warmth that art can bring. And I’m a little cheap. I will spend on the right things (if I can) but I usually immediately regret the purchase and it gets returned.
And art is a commitment in most cases. It’s not something we want to change all the time, we hope to love it, and if it brings discussion, I say even better! I’ve been looking for a large piece of artwork for my entry for I can’t even remember how long. I’ve looked for everything and everywhere.
L I T E R A L L Y.
And I needed something pretty big. Or at least that’s what I wanted and I wasn’t finding anything that was fitting my criteria.
My new thing for birthdays is to print out a huge photo of the birthday boy or girl so when I did this for Olive’s recent birthday it hit me… Why not do something like that as a more permanent piece?!
I knew I wanted landscape or something that didn’t include people and something a little abstract in a way so the hunt was on for a photo that would work.
Enter my recent purge of old gross books. Sometimes I buy old hardback books for the look of having a ton of books stacked somewhere. They don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be the right color or have a really cool cover. Yes, that’s right. I judge books by their covers. But I had grabbed this really cool book about Hawaii one time and the cover was green. I swear I never looked in it before I decided it was time to let it go because the cover had a huge stain on it. But when I opened it there were some really amazing arial shots of the islands. So I tore out like 4 of them, and gave the book to goodwill {again}. So I snapped a photo of the photo and sent it in to Staples.
*I looked all over to find out if the photos were all by the same person and couldn’t tell from the book.
*It’s probably better to use what you have or you have taken fyi, but this book was so old…
So after all that, I created my own artwork.
Fast track of the DIY (Tutorial coming soon) was I modge podged the printout to a piece of wood, created a wood frame, glued it on, and hung it over my entry bench. Wow that’s way quicker than the tutorial!
But in all seriousness, I think it cost me around $40 total, it’s something that finishes the space but I won’t feel bad replacing or throwing out down the road! It gives off the calm vibe I was wanting too.
Now I feel like an adult with a large art in my house, (sometimes) a clean entry, and something that looks pretty pulled together!
Stay tuned for the tutorial… coming later this week!