How one can make your personal massive wall artwork utilizing a bathe curtain for lower than $100 plus a round-up of beautiful artwork design bathe curtains for the job.
This mission formally climbed to the highest of the checklist of our favourite artwork DIY ever! And that’s saying one thing. As a result of we’ve accomplished so much. Like… a LOT of artwork initiatives.
We’ll print excessive decision pictures from our dwelling printer and stick them in a body or run to Staples for an inexpensive engineer print any time. However these freebie/cheapo artwork options solely go to date and the max measurement we will often print is 24″x36″.
This time, we made a honkin’ 5’x4′ stretched canvas for lower than $60! (Due to discovering a bathe curtain on sale for $40.) I swear if we purchased this factor from an precise retailer, it’d be a number of hundred to $1,000-ish.
Whole props to House of Jade Interiors and Angela Rose Home as a result of we thought we got here up with this completely sensible concept till we found they’re the O.G.s of this idea.
Right here’s how we made it…
DIY Massive Scale Wall Artwork from a Bathe Curtain
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The Steps:
1. Stain the lattice strips and permit to dry when you work on the subsequent steps.
2. Determine the size you need in your artwork first by measuring your bathe curtain and permitting for 3-4 inches of extra for overhang. We determined to make ours 5’8″ x 4′.
3. Measure, mark, and reduce your 1″x2″ boards to make the canvas body (4 boards across the perimeter and 1 or 2 boards within the center for help).
4. Use a drill to make a pilot gap on the corners the place the boards meet and drive in wooden screws to connect the boards. Staple the boards on the seams too.
5. Lay your bathe curtain on high of the canvas body and align it as desired. Place a few staples on the high of the bathe curtain to safe it to the canvas body.
6. Flip the canvas body over in order that the bathe curtain is going through down with the body on high of it.
7. Start wrapping the highest fringe of the bathe curtain, smoothing the material alongside the board, and staple it alongside the complete edge.
8. Repeat on the underside fringe of the bathe curtain, this time stretching the material to get rid of any wrinkles.
9. Stretch and staple the material at each aspect edges.
10. Fold and staple every of the 4 corners.
11. Staple any extra cloth to the boards as nicely.
12. Measure and reduce 2 lattice strips to suit the highest and backside of the canvas. Use brad nails to connect the strips to the canvas body.
13. Repeat for the aspect lattice strips, ensuring to account the aspect lattice measurements for the highest and backside lattice strips you beforehand added.
14. Anchor a few screws to the wall the place you wish to place the canvas, dangle, and also you’re accomplished!
This complete mission took lower than 2 hours to do and it has made such a huge effect in our workplace makeover already!
Robert says he needs to make one other one with a large world map for our storage since he technically considers the storage his workplace. Poor man wants a person cave. Haha!
What do you assume?!
Listed below are just a few extra bathe curtain designs from a few of my favourite artists that I believe would make beautiful artwork! I had a tough time selecting only one for ours.
If you’d like extra DIY artwork concepts, you’ll be able to see a bunch extra right here.
