Cheap Photo Frame Make-Over

It’s not a very exciting frame, but at $3.00 apiece, they were affordable.  I just wasn’t happy with the prospect of hanging these washed-out looking oak-ish frames on my walls.

This deep red paint made me nervous.  But with only $3.00 invested in the frame, I went for it.  I used a sponge to apply the paint and worked it into the wood like lotion.  It was a very thin coat and not too perfect.

Yes, I know that adding the black looks frightening.  Just trust me on this one.  Add just a few streaks of black here and there.  I used some old denim material salvaged from some old jeans.  Makes clean-up super easy!

Another, larger piece of denim worked well to add a thin coat of red right over the top of the black streaks. 

It took about ten minutes per frame, start to finish.

And yes, that’s a coffee lid that I’m using as a paint tray.  It works.

I like the seasoned look this process gave the frames.

I love the way these frames look on the wall!

 

Fatima