How To Decorate
Your Home With
Affordable Art
How to decorate your home with affordable art is easy. Decorating your new home
with art doesn't have to mean an expensive trip to your local gallery. Collecting art can be an expensive habit, but these
days there are plenty of places to get amazing original art for a great price. Whether you like prints, fine art oil paintings or abstract collage, we've got a
source for you.
The Siesta Key Farmers Market is a Sunday morning tradition since 2008 from 8am to 2pm,
the Siesta Key Farmers Market offers a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, fine art by artist Vanessa Simonard and Lloyd Dobson, Jamaican prepared foods and pastries,
hot breakfast, organic green tea, local plants, Italian olive oils, artisan breads, organic skin care products, clothing, jewelry, photography, pottery,
and live music.
For additional affordable art visit the following online
website galleries:
www.LloydDobsonArtist.com
www.VanessaSarasota.blogspot.com
Here are some additional ideas. The
key to decorating on a budget is to think
laterally. This guide aims to give you some
ideas.
1) Family Frame
Sometimes it helps to think outside the frame. We turned this divided window into a frame
perfectly scaled for over the sofa. Sand, prime, and repaint a salvage-yard window, then fit a precut mat
and a favorite photo into each opening. Keep them in place with framer's glazing points (find them at crafts
stores). We added a vintage knob to give our new artwork old-fashioned
character.
2) Curate Your Blooms
You'd be surprised how
beautiful close-up photos of
flowers can be--even the
snapshots you take with your
own digital camera.
Take your favorite flower images to your local photo
center. Have them enlarged to enhance the details, and ask
that they be printed on canvas, rather than photo paper. Crisp
white frames make these pretty petals pop, but you could simply stretch the
canvases over frames for a modern edge.
3) Measure Up
You can scoop up old rulers--some with cool retro logos--for a few
bucks. These bird prints, cut from the pages of a dime-store
book,
match the old-fashioned vibe. We used wood glue
to affix the rulers to cheap wooden frames. The rulers are applied
differently on each frame to keep things
interesting.
4) Magnetic Attraction
A message center can be a lifesaver
for on-the-go families. This
project takes that concept a step
further.
Rather than one boring bulletin board, the entire
wall is coated in four coats of magnetic primer and a top coat of yellow.
This way the even the littlest members of the family can contribute artwork and special
notes.
DIY Tip: We love this idea for a work space or crafts room, as well. Instead of an inspiration board for your latest projects, you could have an entire wall
of inspiration!
5) Jewel Box
If jewelry looks dazzling on you, it makes sense that it could
dress up walls, too.
We bought cheap thrift-store frames and backed
them with fiberboard covered in pretty paper. We used old cabinet knobs and pushpins to hang necklaces and bracelets. For earrings, we secured two lengths of
ribbon horizontally across a frame, using thumbtacks to
reinforce it.
Earrings dangle from the ribbon. Even brooches and pins have a home here. We backed one
frame with corkboard, so pins slide in easily. No more digging through
cluttered drawers for the pearls--it's grab and go.
5) Natural Instincts
These are not your 4-year-old's sun-catchers. Our
sophisticated project brings refined outside style to inside
spaces.
We plucked single leaves from a hosta, fern,
caladium, and palm, then sandwiched them between
framed panels of glass. (You can find the frames at crafts
stores.) Cup hooks screw inconspicuously to the window trim, and the
frames dangle from eye hooks via thin chains.
DIY Tip: Swap out the leaves every few weeks
when they begin to brown. For a long-lasting display, use dried leaves
coated with acrylic artist's spray to prevent
discoloration.
We invite you to stop by the Siesta Key Farmers Market and say hello or
visit our website at www.SiestaKeyBlueWave.
com for the latest happening
on Siesta Key.
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