Buying artwork is tricky...you want to buy what you love and build a collection, but sometimes you just have a big empty space to fill. Large-scale artwork can anchor a room and make it appear bigger, but it usually comes with large scale prices. There are lots of ways around the problem...five of them are listed below.
1) Buy a readymade wall-hanging like the Premiar Picture from IKEA (shown in top photo) $149, 55 x 79 inches or the Marimekko Tuuli Wall Hanging (shown above) at CB2, $65 including hanging hardware, 38 x 57 inches.
2) Frame a panel of wallpaper. Click here for sources for cheap frames. Image via Terramia.
3) Make your own fabric panels. Click here for the how-to. Image: Amenity Leaf Large Wall Print.
4) Blow up a favorite photo on canvas, or get it framed. Image and how-to instructions via Blueprint.
5) Blow up a photo and print it out in "tiles" that you pin to the wall in a grid. Image and how-to instructions via Readymade.
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And don't forget the rasterbator. Google it, don't be shy. Similar to the photo tiles.
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Whatever couple would blow up a picture of themselves kissing like that and put it in their home should be shot.
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I clicked through on option 3). Again, the pictures are missing.
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i prefer option 6) make your own giant painting. we had great fun going rothko-esque on a 4ft x 5ft canvas (and great fun trying to walk the canvas home while avoiding various trucks, cars, and bicyclists....)
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@ MCNicole: That's Mia Farrow and...some guy.
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Alana, if you want to find the image used in option 3, click on the Amenity link, then click on "more pictures" on the Design Public site. The link to the how-to instructions give you the steps for making your own fabric art.
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I agree with coyoteyed. I've done some rasterbation and it is really great.
view Cherry Ride's profile
I believe option 5 is actually the rasterbator.
The guys in the picture are Belmondo & beautiful Jean Seberg in "A bout de souffle", amazing movie.
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Nothing in the world is worse than ikea art. If I see ikea art in someone's house, I must run for the door. Ick.
But the ikea wallhanging is cool, just kill the readymade rock picture already.
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How about this one?
Choose any picture from my blog, with which I will then produce a banner individually to your dimensions, formatted either vertically or horizontally. It will be printed on soft, flexible 510 gr. vinyl tarpaulin and is weather and light resistant, so can be used indoors and outdoors. There are different ways of hanging it, too. This way you have lots of possibilities to fill an empty space easily.
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A better idea: Host a fabulous birthday party for yourself. Invite artists.
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"lagomorph," the wall hanging is Marimekko. Only the top picture is IKEA. Those two should never be confused. LOL.
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For excellent quality, unique prints on a variety of archive quality papers and with many framing options you must visit http://durella.imagekind.com
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Check out luriephoto.com for beautiful large-scale landscape photography with beautiful architectural lines.
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Paying $160 at Duggal (per Martha's site) for a 24"x36" print is INSANE. Adorama does fantastic (and disturbingly reasonable) enlargements. The same huge print on high-quality Kodak Endura would be $27 there. They're also one of the few places I've found online that does true B&W digital prints... just not as large. http://www.adoramapix.com
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