I think the greatest challenge when decorating is simply filling up wall space. David and I had completely bare walls in our apartments, before we moved in together– there was NOTHING we could just throw on the walls to make the house feel less empty.
Echoes don’t make a house feel happy!
So David went to the art store and grabbed some canvases, acrylic paint, and stencils. ’Bout $40, I think.
Start by painting a base color for the canvas.
Then stencil a drop shadow for added depth– in this case, David was going for bold cassettes. He taped down the stencil securely with painters tape, and tapped off his brushes to rid it of excess paint before stenciling. Worse comes to worse, you can paint over it and start again.
As Linda Richman (as embodied by Mike Myers on SNL) would say, “No big whoop.”
Then, after the three drop shadows were dry, he put down a layer of white paint to ensure the colors popped. Cover the white paint EXACTLY with your bold colors. Just try not to shimmy too much.
With drying time, this project took less than a day!
This is happily and appropriately hanging in David’s music studio right now!
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Oooh I love this! Chris and I moved in together a month ago and our walls are STILL bare :( We have stuff to hang but have been working on getting frames and figuring out where we want everything. I’m sure we’ll have everything hung just in time to move out! :) Maybe I should get some blank canvas too!
oh, my goodness! we went to IKEA and spent SO much money on frames. and then i spent a few hours with a new printer trying desperately to make my photos look good! thankfully, there are a few that worked out, but we definitely need more! and we don’t have a single photo of us together anywhere in the house!