Title: Gold Frames
Name: Lindsay
Time: 1 hour
Cost: $13.00
Lindsay wanted to share her smaller-scale makeover project in the hope that it may inspire someone else. She always wanted gold frames but found them "oh-so-expensive." On a whim, she repainted her collection of black frames and was delighted at the results. Click above for the pics and head below for all the instructions. Give Lindsay a THUMBS UP if you find this project helpful....
PAINTING THE FRAMES
TOOLS:
Frames, either found at garage sales, or frames from my local home decor store
Gold Paint
STEPS:
Step 1: Get a frame - I tried this both with black frames and natural wood, and both worked.
Step 2: Took the matting & glass out of the frames
Step 3: Painted a coat of the Gold Paint on the frame. If it goes on too lightly, don't worry - the first coat dries relatively quickly, and the second coat will stick wonderfully to the first coat you applied.
Step 4: I did three coats just to make sure that the whole frame was generously covered. Each coat dries amazingly quickly.
Step 5: I popped back my matting & glass and proceeded to frame fun art throughout my home.
RESOURCES:
Gold Paint — $3.00 from my local stationery store. The brand I used was Deco Art Dazzling Metalics in Glorious Gold.
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Comments (15)
This IS a simple project- but it's one of those things you wouldn't automatically think of doing yourself. I did a similar project, and painted a bunch of antique frames glossy black to fill a blank wall (when I really couldn't afford art).
You did a very nice job- and it adds a touch of class to your modern art. Way to go!
Gold spraypaint might be a faster alternative (assuming you have an outdoor area to do they spraying).
i am doing something very similar to this. Very ornate frames sprayed glossy baby blue.
I even thought about putting it in as a small project, but I will need to spray and can't do it outside yet.
Gold Spraypaint.
super-classy! definitely adding this to my fun weekend projects list!
I just painted the frames on my cork boards pink, and I've done picture frames, and while many people said to use spray paint, if you're like me and can't hold down the little spray paint nozzle long enough, then painting them works much better. Plus, it's a stress reliever!
Wow! Very pretty and charming.
for simple, small frames like this, there's no need to bother with spray paint. you'd end up waisting a bunch on the surrounding area. hand-painting small, smooth surfaces doesn't take much time at all.
unseeneclipse, I thought I was the only one with fingers too wimpy to spray paint! I did a garden bench last summer and my whole hand was sore for a week! Frames look cool.
well done! and a lot greener than using spray paint, too.
Jmorey-- I did just that a few years ago! Trash-picked a whole stack of frames (some simple, some ornate) sprayed them baby blue and mounted them on a chocolate brown wall.
If you need INCREDIBLE spraypaint colors, google "Montana Cans". They specialize in a very broad color spectrum of high quality spraypaints and spray caps for graffiti artists. Most of their colors are matte, so cover them in a few coats of glossy Krylon lacquer and you'll get the best paint job you've ever seen.
if you want to get a little more complicated: i just gold leafed a simple ikea frame. it looks really cool, modern but luxe.
Awesome... I've been collecting frames to do this with myself. Some will be painted gold to match some antique gold ones I already have, and some will be painted black to be grouped with a black mirror on a different wall.
Does anyone think this would work well using gold leafing? Kayte, how tough was that? I have some I would love to try out but it's sounds tough, and I'm not convinced it would come out vintage-y.
p_capucine, there have been some good instructions on leafing on here and on instructables. It is supposedly not hard, but I've had leaf (faux) and size sitting on my shelf for six years. Getting started is apparently my great hurdle.