Posts tagged: wall_art
Turn Tin Cans into Wall Art/Organizer
By DIY Maven
Tin cans are pretty. Especially when they're grouped together, as evidenced in the picture above. The maker saved a bunch of them up, peeled off their labels, arranged them into a pleasing shape, » READ MORE
Hang Can Vases for Art
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Photo Image: Easy DiY at Home
Blank walls sometimes make us so nervous that we run out to Pier One or World Market and buy generic pictures to cover the blankness. Ick! If you're scared to pick up a paintbrush and a blank canvas, this simple idea from Easy DiY at Home shows you a simple way how to add metallic shine and bright repetitive pops (sorry, I swore I wouldn't say that anymore) of colo » READ MORE
Vintage Card Table Turned Wall Art
By DIY Maven
Filed in the 'how clever is this?!' folder is Candy's use of an old card table as wall art. She noticed a stack of them at the side of the road. When she spotted the black and white table in the pile, she knew where it was going and what she was going to do with it. Home and on the wall!
Making Mossy Wall Art
By DIY Maven
Remember the Styrofoam wall art post? Well, here's another version making cool art out of the stuff but using faux moss instead of paper and fabric. To whip a nature-y triptych up of your own, you'll need some stuff, which include » READ MORE
Ten Picture Arranging Guidelines
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Photo from The Style Files
Lately I've noticed more than a few picture arrangements being hung curiously high on the wall. I'm not sure if this is due to a bona fide trend, or if individuals (close friends and relatives of mine) aren't aware that there are, in fact, some general rules to follow that bring cohesiveness and balance to an arrangement. » READ MORE
Push Pin Wall Art
By lilybeeA few packs of push pins, a pin board, a dash of inspiration (and possibly a little too much time on your hands at work) And Voila! Gloriously geeky wall art!
It's Mario. and push pins. and genius. Golf claps and whoop whoops to you, clever chaps at the Student Computing Center at the University of the Fraser Valley.
Personally I just don't think I'd have the pushpin-application chops to do this freehand like these guys, but maybe some square lined paper would keep things from going wonky.
Have a peek at the close ups, they really are pretty awe-inspiringly marvelous
» READ MOREFlat and Functional Furniture
By DIY Maven
buroJet’s Plano collection looks like funky art, but it’s only art when it’s not being furniture, which, by the way, takes up no floor space. A very interesting concept that would be fun to try to DIY! Via.
Curbly Video Podcast: How to turn an old window into illuminated wall art.
By DIY Maven
I have a thing about windows. Especially barn sash windows, one of which just happened to be lying around. It was too good not to turn into something, so kicked around some ideas and came up with a wall art/light fixture idea and went to work.
What we used:
an old barn sash window
scrap 1" x 3" pine
a piece of handy board
frosted glass spray
Contact paper
scissor and paper punch
LED light strip
table saw, screws, drill, nails hammer, etc.
What we did:
The BIRDS!
By lilybee
I saw these delicious wallpaper birdies on a post over at Ohdeedoh just before I went away and instantly wanted them or something like them, so instead of packing like I should have been I bungled together a DIY version, using Origami Paper and this website here which has lovely anatomically correct birdy silhouettes.
You can probably figure it out yourself but what I did was:
- choose a bird whom I liked the shape of, in this case » READ MORE
Glo Canvas Light Fixtures
By DIY Maven
Glo Canvas Light Fixtures are actually digital images of light fixtures printed on cotton canvas that glows from behind via slim flourescent lights. Available through Hidden Art Shop, the glowing images by Duffy London run between £55 to £195 and come in various styles, sizes and colors.
Easy DIY Wall Art
By DIY MavenBHG has some very clever ideas for making easy and economical wall art. Here's three of the most ingenious.
First up, place mat art.
Next, shutter art.
And finally, tin can art...?!
For instructions on how to make these and more easy DIY wall art ideas, visit BHG.
Making Wall Art out of Styrofoam
By DIY Maven
Recently, I received a promotional package in the mail from Dow Chemical with all the supplies needed to make modular wall decor.
The box included:
four 12" x 12" x 15/16" pieces of Styrofoam,
four 12" x 12" sheets of black and white scrapbook paper,
several yards of 7/8" wide black grosgrain ribbon,
a bottle of Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue,
a bottle of Tombo Mono Aqua Liquid Glue,
and four wall hangers.
The instructions were as such:
‘Cover foa » READ MORE
Ilan Dei's new designs at Blik's and Gallery Launch Party!
By DIY Maven
Artist and designer Ilan Dei has four new wall decal prints available at Blik's. Choose from funky Gears, Gerbera, Pebbles and Anise, each of which is a 'fusion of Japanese minimalism and mid-century California modern'. Visit Blik's for color choices of each.
And for Curbliers in the LA area, Ilan is having a launch party of A.N.T., 'a new gallery space celebrating collaboration and community', this Sunday, November 4, 2007 from 5 to 7 pm at 2100 » READ MORE
Wall art from leftovers
By LenkArt
This collage was created from leftovers of my other project ( bedcover). I had a lot of fun doing it.
Fine Art Quilting
By HillaryJohnson
I just bought this art quilt from artist Monica McGregor to hang in my living room. It is hypnotic, complex, and very jazz era cubist. If DeKooning were a quilter, I think this is what he'd come up with.
Cuter Closets
By sortabellaTotally brilliant idea: MommySavers.com suggests paint pens or permanent markers to decorate walls. It's one of those thoughts I probably harbored subconsciously for most of my childhood and never tried for fear of my mother's wrath.
But now that I'm all grown up, I think I'm going to give this a go--except rather than writing quotes on the wall as the MommySavers article suggests, I'm going to decorate around my closets. I have two side-by-si » READ MORE
