Suspended Picture Frame

I received several paintings from a friend (Bryan Norton http://norton.carbonmade.com/) from his college days - I thought they were pretty nice, so I thought I'd come up with a method to show them off a bit.

I found frames at Ikea that are for mounting canvases, and I thought i'd go a round about way of using them on a canvas. The paintings are done on boards, and I wanted to make them look like they were canvases that were being stretched.

Step 1 Whatcha need:

Here's the materials that I needed to make this frame. If you have most of these tools, it greatly drops the cost.

I happened to have quite a bit of it, so the total cost for this project was the Tyglosa frame - about $5 from Ikea.

The Tyglosa kit comes with nails and screws, so you don't need to purchase those.

Comments

[Lindseyval]

I have been looking for a way to make paintings that have little or no matting and thin frames look more significant and better balanced. Re-framing with more matting and larger frames was out of my budget and I wanted to try something more unique. THIS IS WONDERFUL! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

[ammo1313]

something you could try is putting screws in the back of the canvas frame so you do not have to drill through the painting. and drill through the frame. If you keep the wire/string tight enough you will still get the picture to float.

[laernmoer]

This isn't a canvas frame. It's a canvas/gesso covered cardboard. Screws would pull out of it. The appearance is like canvas, which is why I put holes in it, so it looks like canvas. If it's a real canvas, I definitely would have done it that way, thanks for the suggestion.

[ammo1313]

That is what I get for not reading, lol.

[stephenniall]

oo i like it ill have to do this Make a Letter sort of holder

[laernmoer]

post an instructable about it (c:

[Browncoat]

Good idea!

[sctirvn687]

cool idea! Looks great!