Finished Project: Reimagined Picture Frames.

In the interest of saving money on my master bedroom remodel, I've been scouring thrift stores and clearance racks for items I think would work with the new décor. Normally, the biggest part of my budget would be spent on wall art, because, let's face it, that crap's expensive. I don't think I've ever seen any wall art at Home Goods for less than $30 and even the cheaper stores aren't that much cheaper.

I had some luck at a semi-cheap store in my area called, Family Dollar, where I picked up a couple new frames (with pictures of chairs in them. How random) for $1.80 apiece. I also found a couple of wood frames at the thrift store I frequent for $0.50.

I thought about not upcycling the chair frames, but where's the fun in that?!

Walking through my local craft store, I wandered into the scrapbooking aisle, where I found some scrap booking paper on sale for $0.19 per page. And BONUS: they're decorated differently on both sides!

I didn't want to be too matchy matchy so I grabbed these completely different pages.

It was pretty simple after that. I just cut each page down to size and placed it within the frame. For the cloud one, I used the other side of one of the scraps and put it with it just to make it a little different.

I love them!

A slightly closer view.

....That's not it though, I have some more frames that need my help. These were purchased during my numerous thrift store outings,too,but unlike my other frames, these would need to be painted.

Each on of these cost me $0.50 at different thrift stores/Goodwill.

I got the idea for what to put inside of these frames a couple of weeks ago when I was rifling through old books at the thrift store. I saw some old illustrated books about animals and thought, "these pictures would look pretty cool on my wall." So I picked out a couple of books (at $0.10 per book).

The two books I decided on. I have no idea why I got the cross stitch one. Lol.

I'm starting to have a little hoard of spray paints in my basement.

I grabbed a couple of spray paints, some newspapers, and my frames and painted them outside really quickly. They dried in no time! I love spray paint! Then came the task of figuring out which pictures to put in which frames:

This horse picture is the picture that originally gave me this idea!

I'd let Quinn paint earlier in the day and this was one of her masterpieces. Matches the frame pretty well.

Just to change it up, I decided to use a sketch from the book as opposed to a color print.

OK, I might not keep it, but I tore out this cross stitch picture just to see if it would look dumb. The jury's still out on it's ugliness.

They're not so awesome looking on my floor, but they'll be awesome on the walls!

I'm really looking forward to being done remodeling my bedroom. I can't wait to see how everything looks together. I'm hoping to have it completed by the end of the summer, but who knows, considering the original modeling was never actually completed! It's the room I put the least amount of effort into because it gets the least amount of visitors! Hahah

Keep an eye out for these pictures in other blog posts in the mean time because they might get re purposed into other rooms!