Cheap Tricks: Skip The Frame Shop
I hang a lot of art in my house. Some are pieces I painted. Others are prints and paintings I've found over the years.
I learned long ago to skip the frame shop. Their frames are beautiful but high dollar even for the plain ones.
Instead, I focus on thrift stores and garage sales. Even if I don't need a specific frame, if I see something extra special I snap them up for some future display.
Save the frame shop for difficult to size art. Most art is standard so it's easy to find a nice frame at the racks at Goodwill.
Do you like to hang art in your house? What kind of art do you like?
I learned long ago to skip the frame shop. Their frames are beautiful but high dollar even for the plain ones.
Instead, I focus on thrift stores and garage sales. Even if I don't need a specific frame, if I see something extra special I snap them up for some future display.
Save the frame shop for difficult to size art. Most art is standard so it's easy to find a nice frame at the racks at Goodwill.
Do you like to hang art in your house? What kind of art do you like?
Comments
We recently started visiting art galleries for fun and it's been very inspiring. I thought about actually building my own frames and hanging a few neat pieces inside our Tiny house when we eventually finish and move in.
Great idea to get them second hand because you can clean them up to your liking.
The paintings are very basic and very "primitive" as the lady is a self taught artist but we enjoy looking at them every day.
I love your "tip" Maria and as we have bought frames from the dollar store or WalMart can attest that buying them from an actual "framing store" the cost is indeed very prohibitive and not really worth the price charged either.
I love going to museums and galleries. It's been too long.