DIY Time: Easy Wall Decor

Remember this DIY project from October: the previously trés ugly, but now chic stool sitting in my parents' front hall?



Well, at the time my mother purchased this black and white fabric our local fabric store was going out of business so she bought a few extra yards. I had seen a tutorial for making fabric wall art on the fantastic How About Orange blog a while ago, so I decided to make something similar for my mom with the extra fabric. The tutorial suggests making a frame yourself with interlocking wood strips from an art supply store. I, however, am lazy and last week the pre-stretched canvas was on sale at A.C. Moore so I just bought that in the 24" x 30" size. I stretched the fabric over it, staple gunned the back, screwed in a hook for hanging and . . .


and instant wall decor for my parents' upstairs hallway. The canvas is hanging over an antique, claw-footed "hope chest" that was my grandmother's so I think it makes a nice contrast of old versus new.