The steps below follow the order of the work for this workshop project.
Do you have a couple of picture frames laying around that you just don’t like? Turn them into beautifully decorated frames that you’ll love adding to your gallery wall. Here are 12 ways to decorate picture frames!
1. Barn Wood Frame by A Piece of Rainbow
A few pieces of weathered scrap wood and a couple of cuts turn a basic picture frame into this striking farmhouse wood frame.
2. Gold studded picture frame from Love Grows Wild
Add gold studs to the corners of your picture frame with the help of clearly glue. This straightforward fix will instantly glam up your plain old frame!
3. Fabric covered mat from Amy J Delightful
A colorful fabric covered mat will jazz up a direct picture frame. If you have a fabric stash, this project is well fitted for you.
4. Painted mats from Cape 27
An even easier way to decorate picture frames is to paint your mat. Spray paint or craft paint would work great here. Painted mats would be a great way to add a bold accent color to a space.
5. Two-toned picture frames from Style by Emily Henderson
The always creative Emily Henderson painted a couple of picture frames in an unique way: half gold and half white. She did this treatment to a couple of frames, all in different ways. The result is striking!
6. Faux metal corners from Honey and Fitz
With painter’s tape and gold spray paint, add faux metal corners to your picture frames! Do this to a couple of frames and put them together in a grid for an elegant look.
7. well fitted gold frames: walkthrough from Aubrey and Lindsay
Gold spray paint is great, but if you spray a whole picture frame, it can come out looking flat and kinda fake. look at this trick to creating the well fitted gold finish for your picture frames.
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7. Bind picture frames together like Bromeliad Living
One really big picture frame looks striking in a room, but large frames can be expensive. You could bind together several direct picture frames to make one large piece of art. Then blow up a piece of art and cut it into parts to fit in each frame.
8. Decorative paper frames from Not Just a Housewife
There are so many pretty decorative papers and now you can put some of them on your walls by pasting them on picture frames. This project works great on unfinished wood frames with a flat front.
9. Aged picture frames from Crafts by Amanda
If you like the aged and shabby chic look, try this project on your picture frames! You don’t have to use the same robin blue paint; any color paint would work as well. These frames would go great with vintage prints.
10. Frames shelves from Shanty 2 Chic
Turn your direct picture frames into something clearly functional and unique: frame shelves! Attach wood to the back of your frames and mount them on the wall to hold books, accessories, or cute toys in a child’s room.
11. Yarn-wrapped frames from Centsational Girl
With a little hot glue and a lot of yarn, you can wrap your picture frames with yarn in your go-to color and add texture to your frame gallery.
12. Map picture frames from Alyssa B. Young
If you like to collect maps from your travels or just like the look of maps, wrap your picture frames in strips of a map!
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look at thrift shops and stores such as Target and IKEA to grab picture frames that are direct and affordable. Then you can try one or two of these methods of decorating picture frames! I’m regretting throwing out a box of old frames a while ago, but I’m going to make up for it soon…
What other ways do you like to decorate picture frames?
Featured image via Centsational Girl.
