Thursday, October 29, 2009

More than just sewing.

Renting over the last...oh my whole adult life... has taught me that decorating isn't very easy when you can't use nails. Our current landlord hasn't forbidden nails, but made it clear that he prefers if we can avoid them.

We've managed to get some frames to stay up with those 3M wall sticker things, but they don't really work for very heavy frames. We have a large blank wall that needed some sprucing up, but knowing we couldn't put up a large frame posed a problem.

After some Internet searching (there's loads of ideas for renter decorating), hubby and I decided to try a fabric wall hanging. We bought a cheapie canvas from AC Moore that was 50% off and some home dec fabric from Ikea. The fabric from Ikea can be a little pricey, but we didn't need much and we both liked the funkiness of it.



I wish I'd remembered to get more "how to" shots, but we finished these really quickly. We cut the fabric out to be a few inches larger than the canvas, stretched it tight over the canvas, and used a regular old stapler to attach it. No staple gun needed, which is great since I don't have one. I had my hot glue gun ready just in case.


Oooh psychedelic!

We liked it so much, we put another one in the bedroom.

Now I just have to get curtains up in there...and decorate my craft space...and my corkboard and and....it never ends!

7 comments:

Andrea Moberly said...

I like it! You sure have been crafty lately! I guess that happens when you move :)

T. Joi said...

Great job. I like. Quick and rather inexpensive. Thumbs up...

Kristina P. said...

It looks great! I can't believe you can't use nails.

Snap said...

Wonderful! Well done!

Kaye said...

Very cool!!! My mom made me a button board (I used to collect buttons when I was Pi's age...) to pin them on just like that.

I don't do IKEA though. I have problems with their background.

Laura said...

Wow, you're really on a roll with the crafty projects! That's a very clever idea for a wall hanging!

kado! said...

awesome quick fix! love the patterns!...& IKEA! ;)