Frame for Master Bedroom

I love Sepia shell prints, and just finished assembling another one for our Master Bedroom. This one hangs above our bed on our paneled headboard wall.
See rest of Master Bedroom project on My home Blog.

FRAMES from flooring

I was going through my frames this weekend. And got rid of a couple through freecycle. Felt so good to get rid of a couple of 'unfinished' projects! The gal was so happy to get them! That feels good.
We did hardwood flooring in our home and had some pieces left over. We had done some mahgany inserts in the flooring. The guy who finished the flooring for us had some left over boards he gave us, we didn't use them all and stashed them away. Well 3 years later, we pulled them out of the garage and finally did something with them.

DH worked on machining the wood and cutting to the size I wanted. I then applied mahogany stain to make the woodgrain tones more even. When they were dry, I applied paste wax for that hand rubbed patina finish.
For an idea of scale, the prints are 9 1/2" wide and the opening of the frames are 14 1/2".

Here are the pictures DONE! I am now looking for a place to hang two 23" square shell pictures! Just two weeks ago, this was wood in the garage and prints were in a drawer!

Frames 2

I found this dimentional frame at a thrift store and painted it black with Rub'N Buff pewter highlights. I had my husband cut it to fit over the shadow box pictured below.

Above: this box was (from Marshall's) a shell in a shadow box. I know the glare from the window behind blocks the actual contents of frame. Below: the results. A more textured substantial picture. I placed a bracket shelf I found at Ross under it to appear as holding it up. They were similar in carvings.

Below: This frame was made out of left over Red Oak flooring. I used gel stain to match my cherry furniture and stamped leaves on it with gold paint.

Below: When we were in a different home we made this mirror for the buffet below it. We used stair tred left-overs from a job and made the large frame and put the mirror in. I used to work where they sold mirrors and we could have the left over pieces. They polished the edges for me and we made the frames around those sizes. We made the smaller mirror and I gel stained the cherry bands you see, then we siliconed the smaller frame onto the mirror in the larger frame. We had a maple wall unit that we wanted to match at the time.

Beaded necklaces that are sold at yard sales and flee markets that are no longer in style (or not your style) can be put on a picture frame like this one I did on an 8"X10" frame. I just glued it on an existing frame.

Picture frames

FRAMES:

I found a few of these old frames at antique stores and cleaned this one up for my Sepia photos I got off http://www.allposters.com/ and had it tripple matted.

This project BELOW: (frame above in clamp) is on Share my Craft.
I added some more moldings to this mirror frame I already had from Pier I. I got it on sale and always thought it looked unfinished. I wanted to do a redesign of it so it would fit my style. We used wood we cut into 1" square, scotia molding, and cut colonial crown (top and bottom off) using only the center portion. You can see below when hung on the wall, it has more presence. First picture is the 'BEFORE' as I bought it.