Buying artwork for your home or office can get expensive. A single print costs hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, so picking a print that you will love for years to come can be difficult. Even if you do find that awesome print, forking over all that hard earned cash at once can be difficult. TurningArt aims to help solve both of these problems by helping you fill your space with great prints for only $9.99 per month.
TurningArt is bringing the Netflix movie rental model to artwork. One of the great advantages to TurningArt is being able get your artwork in the mail and trade it out for new prints just like you would do with Netflix for movies. This helps minimize your risk of not liking how the work looks in your space. This also gives you the option to rotate your artwork every month without having to layout hundreds of dollars each month. And if you do decide that you have a piece that you would like to buy, TurningArt gives you credit towards a purchase for each month you use the service.
If you are looking to fill your office or home with some great works of art but can't commit to a single piece or to spending hundreds of dollars today, TurningArt is a great alternative. And when you do finally find the perfect work of art for your space, you will have already paid off part of it with your TurningArt credits.
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Comments (10)
You don't HAVE to spend hundreds of dollars on art! My husband and I have purchased art online from Etsy and Society6 and didn't pay more than $50 per print. Even getting a custom mat at Michaels (~$20) and a frame from target ($20) put us at less than $100 for art we actually LOVE!!
(PS the first print was a gift from my mom so I dont know how much it cost)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5052/5400953951_b4702cfef1_b.jpg
While I love this idea for business, I hardly think it would be worth it for home use.
Most businesses have the same artwork on their walls for ages and there are very inexpensive, or even free ways for them to update.
Contact your local college or even high school art classes and ask them if you can display some of their art on your walls, or if its sculpture on a table or something in your office for a month or two.
They could even place it for sale in your business, so not only are they getting exposure in the community, they may actually make some money.
As for home, most people are very specific about what they want to hang on their walls, and would rather go without or would be content to a poster or something at walmart.
Still even for home you can do better. There is lots of original and reproductions of famous painters for sale on ebay that you can get for pennies, all you have to do is frame it.
You can also get a good frame and print on a good inkjet printer one of your own photos, or some artwork your child, grandchild, etc makes. It will bring them happiness as well as you.
@ctpnruthless: are those prints from etsy or society6? I'd love to get the seller name from you. I want one for my office.
Agree with residentgeek, I usually get somewhat attached to my art prints and don't really want to rotate them on a regular basis.
I buy from etsy and also from art we love. Our local framing shop also carries some wonderful pieces from local photographers/artists.
@ericab- here you go! We purchased some others on society6 but haven't gotten them up yet :-)
Boba Fett by Fernando Cortés (etsy)
Stormtrooper by mediagraffitistudio (etsy)
Chewbacca is by Chris Wahl, but not sure where my mom got it from.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/PhotographyHere
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Ecology:
Rather than display art, save images in a folder in your computer.
To enjoy art, use the folder as a screen saver.
Share your folder with others.
lil, great idea for a screen saver but I wouldn't be happy with having all my art in electronic format and none on the wall.
Art is one of those things that makes a house a home and shows the personality of the owner. Also, I have friends who are painters who deserve to get paid for their work, it is way too easy to copy images off of the net for free. No matter how enthrenched in technology we get, I wouldn't ever want artists putting their heart into original watercolors, drawings or painting to go away.