Are you guys ready for an easy project?
Fun too?
Here it is….
{ Mantel Display featuring my $6 framed painting }
…all I did…….
….was paint this…..
…$7.98 framed print (minus my 30% retired military discount)
…..to get this look….
New mantel display featuring my $6 framed painting.
What do you think?
What a difference just painting the frame makes.
It was easy too…put painters tape around the frame to protect the painting…grab a brush, gloves, off-white paint….and go to town.
Two coats of paint is required.
As soon as the paint is dry remove the tape.
Grab some 100 grit sandpaper and distress the frame details.
Brush the dust from the frame using a large paint brush.
Hang the painting.
Don’t you love those distressed details.
The gold frame was a little too formal for my taste.
The white works well with the soft colors of the painting.
What about it?
Does it look better now….or before?
Thanks for being here,
Kathy
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Celeste says
I love it! This painting looks so nice in the new white frame.
Karen says
Kathy, I noticed you used RECLAIM paint….is there a reason why that paint instead of other types you usually use? Maybe that’s what you had for left overs…so I understand. Reclaim is quite expensive that’s why I asked. Thanks for such a GREAT inspiration…now I know what to do with a few of my own pictures.
Kathy Owen says
Karen, I love RECLAIM. I’m actually a retailer for Reclaim paint. I started retailing Caromal Colours paint years ago and when the company started the Reclaim line I begin retailing that line also. Reclaim is one of my favorite paint brands. The price is offset by how far the paint goes and the fact that it is a primer, paint, and sealer all in one.
EFFIE CARROLL says
How would a barn red look distressed?
Kathy Owen says
Any color looks good distressed!
[email protected] Interior Frugalista says
Looks much better with the frame painted white Kathy but even better with that awesome rusty grate you placed behind it!
Kathy Owen says
I know! I love that grate. Thanks Marie
chris aka monkey says
wow $6 that’s a deal and yes white looks so much better i do not like gold frames at all, and hanging it on the rusty thingy was genius xx
Judy Alexander says
The white paint makes the picture pop. Looks much better white and distressed.
Donna Marie says
It is much better painted!!!
Judy H. says
I love the distressed white frame! Your painting looks nothing like its former self. The colors in the painting do look softer and appear to blend one into the other to give it kind of dreamy appearance. The gold frame was awful. Having said that, I’m not sure I like the rusty background grate the painting is hanging on. I’m not sure I know what I would do with it, but in my opinion, I think it detracts from the white of the frame, the mantel and other mantel accessories as well as the white in the brick wall. All of that aside, the painting hanging just as is looks gorgeous and classy…you did a fabulous job.