thrifty decor

So Shawn and I have moved into our new house and in the living room we have this huge blank wall that I've been dying to fill up.


I like the idea of a picture wall because I have sooo many pictures but I didn't like the idea of the messy, a million different frames of all different shapes and sizes putting holes in the wall. So I decided to do something more organized and refined but still use pictures. I found this idea in a home decorating magazine where a lady had four related pictures of her family professional framed and matted and hung on a wall. I liked the idea but didn't want to spend $400 to do it. So I kind of came up with my own related idea and here it is....

First things first I headed to Hobby Lobby my favorite store in the world.


I shopped around for some frames and it turned out that day they had 50% off all frames. yay! so I bought four 9x12 frames for half off of $13.99 each ($28.00 total).


Then I headed to the paper section and bought some fun 12x12 scrapbook paper for 10 cents each that would go well with our home decor.

I also bought some large chipboard letters for 4.99...


and 4 yards of some black rope for 1.99/ yard.


I then headed to CVS and printed four 8x10's of the pictures I wanted to hang for about 1.99 each after my cvs card discount.


When I got home I spray painted 4 of my large chipboard letters black with some extra black all-purpose spraypaint I had in the garage.



I then cut each scrapbook paper to fit inside the frames


And taped each picture to a piece of scrapbook paper and put each photo in the frames....


Then i checked with Tozer to get his opinion on how it was looking.

He approved!

The trickiest part after this was hanging each picture on the wall EVENLY, then using a nail to hang the rope above the frames so it looks like the rope is hanging it up. After that I simply used some black thread to tie to the letters and hang them on the nails and this is how it turned out......



So I transformed our boring wall for a total of $48.00! Hope you all have a blessed day!

-Emily