Reframe A Painting And Make It Better

Take a framed painting or print out of the frame and and make it better. Add your own spin to it. Maybe use reclaimed wood as a backdrop or a decorative tobacco basket. The ideas are endless. 

For this project, I pulled out the “wall decor” I bought at my favorite junk shop a few weeks ago. This painted wood piece had an orange vinyl pumpkin decal stuck to it.

The decal might have looked good if it had been put on another piece, maybe with a white background, but it didn’t look good on the minty green paint. In the photo above, I had already removed part of the decal. It was easy to remove.

Minty green is not my favorite color. I love bold grass greens and jewel-tone colors. So I painted over the green with off-white paint. I used Dixie Belle Chalk Mineral Paint, Drop Cloth color. This color is one of my favorite off-whites.

Next, I distressed the paint with my Ryobi battery-powered sander, but I didn’t distress the paint heavily. Bits and pieces of green paint show through the white, and it doesn’t look too minty green.

The back of the sign already had a wire hanger, and I added sticky foam pieces to each corner to protect the wall. The round black foam pieces I have are large, so I cut them into four pieces. Money-saving tip!

I bet you were wondering where I was going with the wood piece. I have this landscape painting or print I’ve used in projects before. It just keeps showing up. I recycle a lot of my pieces over and over.

All I had to do was grab four gold-colored tacks to attach the tree painting to the distressed white board. Ta-dah!

I’ve always loved the colors in this painting. The scene is calming to me.

You can see the green paint in the distressed areas and also raw wood where I distressed through both paint layers. 

The photo above shows the backside of the tree painting. I don’t know why there is a painting on both sides.

I love the colors on this one, too. When I got the painting, it was in a frame with a very thin border and no matte. I immediately removed the painting(s) from the frame and tossed it.

You can see an earlier project where I “framed” the tree landscape in a tobacco basket here…Decorative Tobacco Basket Makeover Farmhouse Style

My Favorite Dixie Belle Products:
Dixie Belle Website
Dixie Belle Boss
Scrubby Soap
The Belle Paint Brush
Badlands Mineral Paint
Glacier Mineral Paint
Peacock Chalk Mineral Paint
Baroque Swirls – Water Slide Transfer
Roses Silkscreen, Belles and Whistles
Terra Seal Matte Finish 
Spanish Moss Chalk Mineral Paint
Drop Cloth Chalk Mineral Paint

What do you think of this simple project? Thanks for being here, Kathy