I think we have all heard the saying “Never judge a book by its cover.” But have you ever heard the saying:
“Give all of your junk to the DIY blogger down the street, she’ll know what to do with it!”
Luckily for me, I have heard the first saying and yes, people bring me their junk.
It hasn’t always been like this but as people are becoming more familiar with my blog and when I tell them I like to take old things and give them new life, they sort of remember that and bring me their discarded treasures.
This is the exact scenario of what happened when I received this picture.
My neighbor, who just recently got married came knocking on my door one afternoon. When I answered the door, there he was standing in the doorway holding this gigantic picture frame. It stands about 2.5 feet wide by 3 feet tall. Its pretty big.
He told me the story about how his new wife had received this particular picture from her old boyfriend. I guess the sight of the picture brought back bad memories. What got me was the giant red ribbon and bow that was still wrapped around the frame. I didn’t ask about that, but I did happily take the picture!
As any good thrifted or donated piece of junk goes, it went out to the garage until I could come up with a proper solution to make it pretty. Don’t get me wrong, I like the Eiffel Tower, I have never been in person but would love to go someday. The stye of the art just didn’t fit. When I finally came up with the idea of how to make it pretty I was super excited! Let me show you how you can turn an outdated picture into updated art!
SUPPLIES:
– Old Picture
– White Paint
TUTORIAL:
To start, paint the entire thing with some white paint. This is the best project for using up any left over white paint from a previous project. I think this paint had a satin finish.
After the paint is dry grab your black sharpie marker and your acrylic ruler. At this point you get to be creative and start to draw triangles and quadrilaterals (4 sides shapes). Take your time and don’t stress about it. It will come together just fine! Adding lines in one of the corners will give you a good starting place.
After a few minutes of drawing lines with your ruler, you will have something similar to this! A beautiful new piece of art!
I have to say that I am pretty impressed with the way that this turned out. It was super duper easy and now this piece will be a great staple piece on my mantle for the next few months. I am excited to show you guys how you can use a staple piece as the the main focal point by adding different accents around it!
So, go grab a old picture and lets turn it into updated art.
Hawthorne & Main is all about finding your style for your space! It should be a reflection of you! 
that turned out awesome! and if you ever get tired of that, you can easily paint over it and do a new pattern.
I read that as 25 feet! I thought. “Wow, that IS huge!” lol
You’ve done a terrific job!
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Haha, that would be really big!! Although it isn’t that big, it still is a pretty big piece. I am really happy wit the way way it turned out! Thank you for stopping by!
Haha, 25 feet would be really big, too big! It is still a pretty big frame at 2.5 feet though. This was a super easy update and I love the results. Thanks for stopping by!
I love how this turned out, I have done a few bits of art round the place, painting over old canvases, mad how it is cheaper to do that than buy a new blank canvas!
Do you worry that someone will comment how much they like the old version? I do when I share my do-overs!! ( not that I expect them to of course…shall I stop now before I make it worse?!)
Thanks Julie! Well, my neighbor literally walked across the road to give me this picture. It really did not go with my decor. If I would have liked it, I would have left it as is. I wasn’t worried that people would get mad that I painted it, until now, hahah jk. No one has ever got mad yet, but I am sure that I will eventually get an angry comment about how pretty the piece was before! Thanks for the heads up, have a great weekend!
Love the clean lines of this project! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Beth! This was my first time using a sharpie for art, I really like how it turned out!
Love your revamped art work Shonee! Thank you for sharing at Dream. Create. Inspire. Link!
Cat
Thanks Cat! It definitely is an upgrade! I really like how it turned out!
I love how it turned out. Thank you for sharing the ideas! Simple and the result is very cool.
Good article. Very informative, well balanced, unbiased.!!
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