Inexpensive Textile Art

Creating your own textile art is so easy that I might just award it the prize for simplest idea on this site! When you are decorating a property and are short of time and money, this is a really cheap and easy idea to pull out of your decorating bag of tricks.

If you are buying framed pictures for each room this can work out expensive. Being able to make some of the artwork yourself at little cost is very useful.

"If you have been looking for our tip for the easiest project, you just might have found it!"

A metre of fabric will create a wall panel 36 inches (92 centimetres) square. That should be big enough to make an impact in any room!

When we decorated an apartment in Puerto Banus on Spain's Costa del Sol, we only had a couple of days and a few euros to do a complete makeover and shopping for art was something we just didn't have the time or money for.

We had bought all the bedding at home to take with us and had bought some extra co-ordinating fabrics just in case. In the end we used the same basic idea in several rooms.

We were lucky enough to have a small artist's supply shop just down the road and for very little cost we purchased artist's canvases in asssorted sizes.

We simply stapled our spare fabric to the canvases for a very stylish and simple look.

For the lounge, we bought a fabric that not only brought together all the colors in the room, but had a flower motif that looked almost like a picture and within minutes we had two lovely wall hangings which proved to be enough to finish off the seating area beautifully.

To make your own textile art in this way you need only an artist's box canvas, some fabric and a staple gun.

Literally a couple of minutes from start to finish and you have your own unique artwork ready to hang on the wall.