Art is expensive. Is it worth the price? Sure, sometimes, but sometimes you just need something creative, something personal, unique and cheap to hang on a bare wall to tie all your home decor’ together. Here are some cheap wall art ideas to complete your home decor’.
Dressing a wall up and adding your own personal touch to make a room pop can be as simple as opening a can of paint and painting one wall a different color to make it the focal point of the room. A bright, bold paint color on one wall of a room will instantly add depth and drama, no other wall art is needed.
If painting one wall a different color is not enough, use painter’s tape to form geometric patterns or stripes and add more than one color of wall paint. Tape off rectangles at art hanging height on your wall to form a backdrop on your room wall to hang cheap art work in and paint the rectangles a different paint color than the rest of the room. Make a grouping of the cheap wall art within the painted rectangles and it will instantly look more polished, more expensive.
If you are a crafty person, make your own cheap wall art. Wall art does not have to be expensive paintings, paint your own wall art. Frame Grandma’s antique doilies, hang a baby quilt or rug on the wall. The list is endless as to what you can make into cheap wall art when you put your unique talent to work. It will personalize your space and since you made it, anytime you want to change your home decor’, you can make something else.
Search the internet for downloadable prints that will match your home decor and print them out and place them in matted frames. An odd number of prints in varying sizes grouped together on a wall will make the wall the focal point of the room.
Paint and wall paper supply stores often have discounted rolls of wall paper or wall murals that can be turned into cheap wall art. An odd roll of wall paper border can be purchased cheaply and the design cut and fitted into frames to hang on the wall. The right color or print on a roll of wall paper can be cut to size and framed, murals can be applied as is or cut down to size then applied to a interior wall.
Black and white pictures from old books, old maps, news paper articles, virtually any printed paper good can be framed and used as wall art. Cheap wall art can be your little secret, no one has to know what it really cost because the right presentation of the cheap wall art will make it look expensive and make your home decor as unique as yourself.
