On the wall, living room.

My wife and I have been in our new apartment for several months now. However, we are still hanging stuff on the wall. We've been to all the stores and have looked at all of the pictures and paintings we could ever want to put on our walls. But we just couldn't justify paying over $100 for a simple picture or canvas. I thought it would be a good idea to give you a peak into our journey of what to put on our walls. 

This is what we put in our living room. It's just an image in some frames:

Love it. Hate it. Whichever, but it was cheap. The 11x14" frames were the biggest expense here, but we found them on clearance at Target for $12 or so. The greatest part is that I found the art online, for free. I downloaded it, pulled it into my photo editor and cut it into the right sizes. Then I went to my church and printed it out on their big Richo laserjet on 11x17" paper and cut the excess off. (Don't tell the secretary.) I put them in the frames and wala! Fine art!

Some tips for your project:

• If you don't have access to a laserjet printer, take it to Office Depot or a place similar, it shouldn't be more than $2 a piece.
• You gotta do a little math about what size the full image needs to be (22" x 28" in my case) and how big each cut should be.
• You can take any random picture or graphic from the web, but for art to print this big, at a good quality, it needs to be very big.

This is just one way you could have some cheap decor to put on your wall. Tomorrow we will take a look at the hallway wall and family portraits. What are some things you have put in a frame or on a wall?

Chris