A friend of mine recently got divorced and found himself in possession of a huge, beautiful house with almost no furniture in it. He is the kind of person who loves to have beautiful things around him, but he doesn't have a big budget for decorating. The last time I visited him, I was charmed to notice one of his solutions.
He loves calendars; he gets several every year, each with big wonderful pictures of famous works of art. At the end of the year, he was reluctant to throw them away, but he couldn't afford to frame them.
Luckily, the calendar was of Japanese wood block prints, which are designed to hang without a fancy frame. Searching online, he found these frames:
These frames just hold the picture behind clear plastic, with no border. They make the picture stand off the wall about an inch, in the same way that paintings are often hung in an art gallery. They are so low-cost that he could afford to buy one frame for each of his favorite prints. Now he has enough prints to cover an entire wall of the guest bedroom. Bonus: the frames are light enough that if he has children visiting, they can't do much damage by knocking the pictures off of the wall or bumping into them.
If you try this at home, be sure to choose bold images that don't need an elaborate frame.
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