Home Stuff #1

I like to create unique things for my home. Over the years I've custom painted tables and lamps. I've painted my own art to hang on the walls. I painted our own custom door greeting (to be shared in a later post). There's a lot of stuff. I thought I'd start including some of the ideas I've come up with and maybe, just maybe, you might be inspired to do your own thing if your tastes run along the same lines.

The first thing is three things. They are cloth covered frames hanging on the wall above our eggplant colored sectional in the upstairs living room.

Obviously, the fabric is the star of this attraction. I found it on a website called Contemporary Cloth. There are many vintage designs to choose from. This one, a barkcloth atomic design is one my favorites although it was hard to choose between it and several other very 1950's funky stuff. I've posted a couple of the designs below.

Anyway, we needed something in the retro line to match our pink retro lampshades. I ordered these online and matched them to some pole style modern glass tables we found at Home Depot. This also will be featured at another time.

My husband helped make the frames for the atomic wall art. In a nutshell, I first decided the finished size of each piece, we purchased the necessary approx. 1/2" x 2" boards, brackets to connect the frame corners and tablecloth lining for an undercover. The undercover might not be necessary, but I felt it gave a smoother look. Table cloth liner is a thick soft, sort of cottony material. Then it was a matter of assembly, careful cutting, careful lining up of fabric on frame so the pattern was straight, stapling of cloth and then hanging.

In case you are wondering about the pink painting on the wall under the art. This is a long river of pink paint that I applied along one wall in the livingroom. I used a Ralph Lauren suede finish paint. HOWEVER, after doing it, I wasn't and still am not sure I like it. But, it is a little thick and removing it would be difficult, time consuming and would probably involve removing the exisiting wall texture which would then have to be re-done making sure it matched the rest of the the wall texture. Ewwww! It's not bad, it's just not exactly what I thought it would turn out to be.