I’ve wanted to paint the hallway purple for a really long time and alas, it happened! It is difficult to photog the hallway because not much light gets back there…but the best way to describe this purple is: Grape Ape. And I love it. I let Abe choose the trim color and he chose the brightest lime green he could find. At the time, I didn’t think this was a big deal; however there are 9 door frames in my hallway. gasp. It looks very Halloween-ee, which kind of works out since this is our favorite holiday.
I bought the die-cut letters @ Scrap for $0.10. I just happened to find the letters to make the word “Fun.” This is why SCRAP is such a rad place.
This next project was a lot more involved than I imagined. Ahem.
So, we had been saving cardboard pizza rounds for a random circle project, because we are dorks and that’s how we roll. I covered these with a square of fabric slighter larger than the diameter of each circle. Next, I used page inserts from photo albums (for the 4×6 photos) and also plastic sheet protectors, cut to the size I needed, for larger photos. I sewed these onto each fabric square, leaving one side open to change out photos as I please. Then, I sewed trim around each, to outline the photo. Lastly, I hot glued each square to the back of the cardboard. (NOTE: originally I intended to use 1/4″ elastic around the fabric to secure to the cardboard, but nah…too much work). John’s part was to attach fishing line along the backside of each series of frames, and add metal washers to each, so that they lay flat against the wall (the washers add weight). The cool thing about all this is that we were able to patch all the giant nail holes, previously used for traditional photo frames, and suspend the lightweight circle frames from tiny screws at the top of the wall. Sweet!
I have two more projects for this hallway. Our house is small and I’m trying to utilize every nook and cranny…so I’m going to make a file hanger out of fabric, for each kids’ school/important paper stuff, and also I want to make 3 giant circles similar to the above to display/change out the kids’ artwork or whatever. Yay!
Tags: art, diy, home, photo frames, recycled
