Frames within frames

Old picture frames are perfect to decorate your home, cheap, but very creative. Check these great home decor ideas with frames.

"Ugh $500!!" I gasped.A neighboring customer glared at me over her thin pink-framed glasses.My heart sank along with my vision of the beautiful framed watercolo…

Thrift stores are full of picture frames in all shapes and sizes- which makes them PERFECT for these fresh and unexpected upcycle ideas!

Gave our gallery wall a refresh by swapping out our white frames and art for darker frames from Custom Picture Frames. Come see how it looks!

I adore custom framing but it can be quite expensive, which got me thinking about some alternatives. After all, necessity is the mother of invention, is it not?Turns out a lot of people have had this same thought and have created some lovely options to display artwork sans framing. Check them out! Above: This option from Deko employs wooden trouser hangers to display art. That’s it! And I love it. I found this elegant display idea on Freshome.

Gold corners on frames? I know. You’ve maybe, more likely probably, seen this done before. Nevertheless, it’s a great, super simple and uber easy way to give a store-bought frame a chic makeover. A quick stop in a hardware store to grab some campaign-style hardware (or grab some brass corner braces online here) and you’ll […]

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My craft room recently got a makeover thanks to National Painting Week with Sherwin-Williams (#SWPaintingWeek) which starts next week, April 7-April 13th! Each day of next week, you can tune in to SWPaintingWeek.com to see room reveals, or furniture reveals from some of your favorite bloggers. I was asked if I'd like to paint a room in my home pink to celebrate National Painting Week. Pink! I am the mom of two boys (and one very manly man), so the idea of claiming a little corner of my home…

After I took my crewel work class a few weeks ago, I forced myself to close my computer and work on finishing the stitching on my sampler pattern. Each night, I worked on it for about half an hour instead of randomly flipping between Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. I’m not a person who relaxes very...Read More »