Painted Frames

I love those chunky cottage style frames I've seen on blogs, but I never seem to find any in the stores.

And the ones that I've seen online have been really expensive.

Then I came across these cheap frames at Hobby Lobby.

They are unfinished and don't even come with glass in them, but I liked the width of the frame.

I decided I coud transform them into cottage style frames with some paint.

The first step was painting the frames black.

Next I brushed on white paint making sure there were still areas where the black paint shows.

Finally I waxed and buffed them.

Luckily I have extra glass that fits the frames.

Although I left it out for these photos because I didn't want to deal with the glare.

These prints are going to go in my bathroom and I was trying to mimic the finish on a sign I have in there.

 (I'll be showing it to you in a future post.)

I'm not quite finished with the bathroom yet, so I thought I'd show you the completed frames in a vignette in my dining room.

I found both of the botanical lavender prints on Ebay.

I look forward to showing you you my completed bathroom soon!

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