Inexpensive Wall Decor

Maybe I am a minimalist at heart after all...

Some ideas for inexpensive wall decor come about by happy accident. Some time ago, the lovely blue walls of my lounge were brightened by a colorful painting.

When the painting needed to be returned to it's owner, I was left with a screw sticking out of the wall and rather than leave it like that, I hung a blank box canvas on it. My intention was to do a splatter painting at some point and I had bought the canvas for that reason. I hung it on the wall just to see if it was the right size and shape for the space.

That was a couple of years ago and it is still there! After a while, I came to really like the plain white canvas rectangle and loved the simplicity of it - the room is quite 'busy' with soft furnishings and other family paraphenalia.

If you feel that a totally blank, straight out the wrapper canvas is too much for you - or too little! - how about just painting it one color? Maybe you will be inspired by this picture and take three colors from your soft furnishings and paint the canvases to match.

Or suppose, like me you had a blue wall - how about having a row of canvases in different shades of blue starting at one end with the lightest and getting progressively darker?

If you have some of the wall color left over, why not just buy a small, cheap tin of white paint and add a little to the wall color? Use that to paint a canvas, add a little more white and paint another canvas with that - and so on... - as many times as you like. Now that's a bargain!

Food for thought. Certainly an idea for those of us with little skill or money - just the cost of a plain canvas and a few tester pots of paint.