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How to Make Cheap Wood Frames the Quick and Easy DIY Way

Monday, March 20, 2017 By Christine @ theDIYdreamer 7 Comments

Cheap way to decorate your home with Wood Frames for your gallery wall.

Have you seen beautiful gallery walls displaying wall art and frames in various sizes? Gallery walls are absolutely beautiful and allow you to display your favorite art, photos, and even statement pieces.

My only issue with gallery walls is that they can be expensive to put together. However, I found a fabulous way to save on the frames! Want to find out how I made my own DIY wood frames?

How to make cheap wood frames the quick and easy DIY way. You won't believe how easy these are to make, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it! Genius tip to make DIY frames.

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How to Make Cheap Wood Frames

Supplies:
– Stretched Canvas (They are available in various sizes.)
– Flat nose pliers

Stretched Canvas

Instructions:
Step 1: I took out various sizes of canvases that I had along with a pair of flat nose pliers.

Canvases and flat nose pliers.

Step 2: I turned over a canvas and used my flat nose pliers to remove all the staples around the canvas frames.

How to make rustic wood frames

Use flat nose pliers to remove staples.

Use flat nose pliers to remove staples.

Step 3: I removed the canvas and look what I found! A super cute wood frame!

How to make DIY wood frames with canvas frames. Perfect for a gallery wall and even for a wedding photo booth!

Talk about easy, right?! Of course I continued the easy process with the rest of my canvas frames.

How to make Cheap Wood Frames!

How to make cheap wood frames the quick and easy DIY way. You won't believe how easy these are to make, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it! Genius tip to make DIY frames.

How to make cheap wood frames the quick and easy DIY way. You won't believe how easy these are to make, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it! Genius tip to make DIY frames.

How to Make Cheap Wood Frames – Rustic Frames

It was actually by pure luck that I discovered there were beautiful wood frames hidden within canvas frames.

Gabrielle and I were cleaning up her room and found a bunch of canvases that she had painted on. She didn’t want them anymore but I wanted to save her paintings. I figured that I may as well try and save the paintings by removing them from the frames.

By removing the canvases, I noticed the rustic looking frames underneath. SCORE!! And since the frames were perfect to decorate with, I used them to decorate her room.

How to make rustic frames to use for a gallery wall.

How to make cheap wood frames the quick and easy DIY way. You won't believe how easy these are to make, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it! Genius tip to make DIY frames.

So, what do you think of my DIY Wood Frames? Pretty cool, right?!

I just love it when something cool comes out of something unexpected. The possibilities with these frames are endless too! They can be painted and be used so many different ways: think wedding photo booths too! And the best part, they cost as little as a $1 depending on where you buy them. The ones we had here were from the dollar store.

P.S. If you are looking for another unique way to decorate your gallery wall, check this out too: Diamond Shaped Wood and Mosaic Wall Art.

Have a FABULOUS day my friends!

P.S. I’ll be linking to these Parties.


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Comments

  1. Jenny says

    Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 9:53 AM

    Stopping by from The Creative Circle linkup. I have been searching for a wood frame tutorial! Pinning for later!!

    -Jenny
    sweetteal.com

    Reply
  2. Angela says

    Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 8:00 PM

    What a great idea. I’ve never thought of this. I have some old canvas at home and I think I’ll try this.

    Reply
  3. Mary Denman says

    Friday, March 24, 2017 at 11:49 AM

    Brilliant! Dropping by from Light and Savvy!

    Reply
  4. Sherry says

    Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 11:29 PM

    Oh you are so smart!! They look amazing! Thanks for sharing at Home Sweet Home!

    Reply
  5. Jennifer Maker says

    Friday, June 30, 2017 at 3:29 PM

    Oh, this is a GREAT idea for inexpensive wood frames. And I know for sure I’ve got some old canvases lying about that no one wants anymore. Thanks!

    Reply
  6. JT says

    Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 5:08 AM

    It’s cute, but it won’t work for a lot of things that need the “lip” that holds stuff in (which most picture frames have). So this wouldn’t work too well for framing say, photographs, unless you had the wood-carving skills to carve out a channel for it.

    Reply
    • Amy Ussery says

      Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 3:51 AM

      I was thinking the same thing…

      Reply

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