Showing posts with label wall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wall. Show all posts
Decorate Your Wall with Your Own Circle Painting
Decorate Your Wall with Your Own Circle Painting
Then I have a quick and easy art project thats perfect for you.
This could be the shortest tutorial in my series of DIY art for home staging.
Put paint on bowl rim. Invert bowl on canvas. And there you have a “modern masterpiece.”
A circle is a symbol of continuity and completion. It’s a comforting and at the same time, uplifting image. Sounds to me like something every staged home should have.
In Japanese ink painting, a hand-draw circle executed with one or two brush strokes takes discipline and focus. Similar paintings of a simple, isolated circle and of multiple circles have been done by well-known American and European artists as well.
If you would like to see samples of contemporary circle paintings, here is a post by Nancy Marcus
Now you can add your name to the list of artists. We’ll cheat a little and do it the easy way.
What You Need
Invert the bowl and glue the base of the cup to the base of the bowl. This will be a handle to make lifting the bowl off the printed canvas happen without any oops.
Put paint on bowl rim. Invert bowl on canvas. And there you have a “modern masterpiece.”
A circle is a symbol of continuity and completion. It’s a comforting and at the same time, uplifting image. Sounds to me like something every staged home should have.
In Japanese ink painting, a hand-draw circle executed with one or two brush strokes takes discipline and focus. Similar paintings of a simple, isolated circle and of multiple circles have been done by well-known American and European artists as well.
If you would like to see samples of contemporary circle paintings, here is a post by Nancy Marcus
Now you can add your name to the list of artists. We’ll cheat a little and do it the easy way.
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| Circle prints can be small, medium or even gigantic. This medium size print hangs in the home of designer Meredith Heron. |
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| Russian painter Wassily Kandinskys circle painting from the early 20th century. Of course, it is handpainted, but you can see the appeal colorful concentric circles have. |
- 1 large bowl
- Throwaway plastic cup
- Hot glue gun and glue stick
- Aluminum foil
- Small amount of craft paint or leftover house paint
- 1 primed canvas bigger than the circumference of the bowl
How to Do
Invert the bowl and glue the base of the cup to the base of the bowl. This will be a handle to make lifting the bowl off the printed canvas happen without any oops.
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| The plastic cup gives you a handle. As an alternative, you can fashion one out of duct tape. |
Lay down a sheet of aluminum foil big enough to accommodate the inverted bowl. If you need to overlap two sheets of foil to make it big enough, place a few dabs of hot glue under the top layer of foil to keep the foil layers from shifting.
Invert the bowl onto the foil. Outline the rim of the bowl with craft paint. If using house paint, use a plastic spoon to generously drizzle a line around the bowl’s rim.
Heres where the discipline and focus come in handy. You have just one shot at this. No second guessing or slipping.
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| I used gold paint. Black is common, but almost any color is fine, depending on your decor. |
Heres where the discipline and focus come in handy. You have just one shot at this. No second guessing or slipping.
Have your blank canvas next to your foil and bowl. Look at your canvas and decide where you will make your imprint. Lift the bowl, carefully press the rim onto the canvas, and rotate the bowl a half turn to be sure you have distributed the paint in a circle.
Lift the bowl. You can wash the paint off immediately. Use a hair dryer to heat the glue to remove the disposable cup, being carefully not to burn your fingers on the hot metal bowl. Any glue residue you can remove with acetone (nail polish remover).
Let the canvas dry in a level position to prevent any runs (unless like some artists you want the look of paint runs). Sign your name -- or even a fictitious name -- near the bottom edge of the painting
Finally, hang your handsome new artwork on that blank wall.
Let the canvas dry in a level position to prevent any runs (unless like some artists you want the look of paint runs). Sign your name -- or even a fictitious name -- near the bottom edge of the painting
Finally, hang your handsome new artwork on that blank wall.
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| Theres hardly any mess with this method of painting. If you recycle a disposable bowl, you can discard the bowl with the aluminum foil when youre done. |
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| Your circle wont look like a mechanical rendering, and thats the point. You can make it more "active" by moving the bowl around a little, or even stamping multiple times. |
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| Its almost impossible to create an ugly circle painting. I made these colorful prints by dipping two different size glasses in paint. Using glasses, you dont need a handle. |
Decorate Your Wall with Your Own Circle Painting
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Homestaging Wall Art Its Day 31!
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I never ran a marathon, I’ve never been called an overachieving type A, and I’m about as competitive as a jellyfish, so pushing myself to create a new blog post for 31 consecutive days didn’t come naturally.
In one way I enjoyed the test to come up with fresh content under pressure. I was almost glad that the self-imposed deadlines came at me fast and furious.
But I missed the satisfaction that I was posting the best tutorials, photos and writing that I could – if only I had more time.
I’m Hanging It Up
I learned a lot by researching, dreaming, experimenting and writing about wall art for homestaging in the past month.
I hope you’ve learned along with me. I hope you’ve picked up some tips about decorating your walls.
Whether you are staging your own home, staging other people’s homes, or just having fun with art, I like to think I helped.
Everyone needs a creative outlet. Blogging is mine. Maybe you’ll find a new creative outlet or art form in the tutorials I’ve posted.
Here’s my summary of what an effective home stager should know when choosing wall art.
- Art for staging should never be offensive or controversial
- Big is best.
- There are economical and easy ways to create your own art.
- A variety of media are suitable for staging art -- paintings, textiles, collages, photos and combinations of these forms.
- Framing and matting can make all the difference.
As your high school teacher might have said, “If you forget everything else I’ve said this semester, remember those points.”
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Homestaging Wall Art Its Day 31!
Should You Decorate with a Wall of Plates
Should You Decorate with a Wall of Plates
?If you’ve spent any time in blogland you’ve seen photos of plates grouped on an interior wall. Some are pretty and some are pure chaos.
The question here is, "Are they good for staging a home?" The answer is, "It depends."
Why We Love ‘Em
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| Becca at Adventures in Decorating knows how to arrange plates. Do you? |
Theres plenty of good reasons why plate arrangements are so popular.
- DIY decorators like hanging plates on walls because it’s a relatively easy way to add some color, texture, and interest to a blank wall.
- Plate arrangements work well in every style of home. You can choose the plates that compliment your home and you’ll look good.
- Theyre easy to hang. Work out your arrangement on the floor, and up they go! Plates can be hung with Command strips or other invisible hangers and stay up until we change our minds.
- Pretty plates are a dime a dozen at second hand stores. And many of us have plates in the closet that are never seen, yet they call out to us for attention.
- Theres plenty to choose from. I’m using the word “plates” here, but I’m including platters, trays, and even bowls and baskets. Talk about variety! There are vintage plates, souvenir plates, hand blown glassware, transferware platters, pricey Delft dishes, thrown and glazed pottery, retro and contemporary melamine, and your common every day dinnerware.
If you are looking for an inexpensive way to adorn a wall in your home on the market, here are some guidelines to make those plates add value to your home.
What Not to Do
The biggest mistake I see with plate décor is too much variety. If you love your home, and you plan to stay there a long time, if you want to give it bundles of personality, then go ahead and cover your walls with whatever strikes your fancy.
When buyers tour your home, they’ll respond better to a clean and uncluttered home, including your walls. Keep the colors and shapes harmonious. Sound boring? It’s not. It’s effective staging.
A plate collection can grow too big. You do not want the wall o’plates to be the room’s focal point. Curate your collection to what’s big and beautiful.
Another common misstep is to have too random a placement. Overlapping and crazy quirky arrangements are fine for your funky self, but chances are it will only distract people touring your home, trying to envision themselves living there.
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| White plates arranged on a grey wall with matching pillows and a pair of lamps -- thats a staging formula worth copying. Photo: Emily Arrison at Timeless Paper. |
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| Another example of white plates beautifully arranged on a dark wall, from Nesting Game. |
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| A grouping of three similar plates gets surrounded by a frame. Nest, Nesting, Nested. |
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| This collection of metal trays by Jennifer Rizzo is unusual but certainly stage-worthy. |
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| Lest you think I am endorsing white plates exclusively, heres BHGs style that shows restraint in its number of plates, if not the color choices. |
Tips for Success
- When arranging a grouping of pictures or plates, place your visually heavier, larger selections at the bottom or center of the arrangement. Work up and out from there.
- Keep the plates close enough so they read as one design instead of a bunch of plates glued to the wall. How wide that space should be depends on the size and shape of the plates, but one to three inches is normal.
- Use an odd number of items to make it more interesting and less formal. If your collection is a little too eclectic for staging, a formal pattern of placement can make it look less chaotic.
- To make a narrow room feel wider, place plates in a horizontal arrangement. If you want to emphasize high ceilings or a tall chimney breast over a mantel, make your arrangement more vertical.
My bootleg plate hanger: Bend a paper clip so
one loop sticks out. Hot glue the other end
to the back of a plate, and cover with a
square of felt hot glued onto it. - An easy way to make your own plate hanger is to hot glue a paper clip to the back and use a push pin in the wall. Unless the plate is heavy, this works every time. But many decorators like these disc plate hangers from Amazon.
- Find a way to coordinate your plates. Choose one style, or one material, or one color palette, a specific theme, or identically sized plates.
- To make the plate arrangement more special, don’t repeat the same elements in another part of the room. You’ll avoid the matchy-matchy, out-of-a-kit look.
- For a savvy post about using plates as art, decorator with attitude, Joe Davis, writes from experience. His page is filled with eye candy, some valuable for staging ideas and some not. You be the judge.
You can learn to make your own home appealing to buyers. Walls dressed up with plates is one simple way to do that. Learn how by following these tips and by experimenting.
Because one of the last things your staged home needs is an off-the-wall arrangement of wall plates.
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Should You Decorate with a Wall of Plates
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