Welcome to Week 5 of the One Room Challenge!
This week has been all about creating art for the walls (more traditional art than last week), in the form of paintings!
We had multiple walls to decorate, all viewable from the living room: a stairwell wall, two dining room walls, and of course a living room wall .
DIY Art Canvases
To save money, we stretched, primed, and painted canvases ourselves. This also gave us the freedom to create custom sizes for each space.
For example, the stairwell wall canvas measured over 8 feet tall, and would have cost about $700 if we bought it in-store.
All it took was 2 rolls of unprimed canvas and a few strips of imperfect wood from the discount pile.
DIY Floater Frame
For the finishing touch, we created floater frames for each of the canvases (except the 8 ft tall one) before hanging them on the walls.
Stretching our own canvases was a great way to save money. Buying just the pre-stretched canvases would have cost over $1,000 + the cost of frames.
But materials for the stretched canvases AND frames cost less than $200. Talk about savings!
Next Up
That’s a wrap for ORC Week 5!
Next week we’re taking a quick break from wall art and will be trying our hands at making some furniture. This will be a diy first for me–very nervous but excitd!
Be sure to check out all the other participants’ updates this week below:
www.oneroomchallenge.com/orc-blog
