I’ve been decorating my boy’s new bedroom for the past few months and love coming up with DIY artwork to fill their empty walls. So far I’ve posted about my Ruler Growth Chart, Definition of a Hero Signs, Rain Gutter Book Shelves, and Paper Airplane Mobile. Today I’ll share with you the how I created the simple and inexpensive Vintage Plane Photo Wall for their room!
When we moved into our new home, we soon discovered we lived right down the road from a small airport that hosts amazing air shows with beautiful vintage airplanes. The boys and I could stand in our backyard watching the planes soar, dive, twist and turn… so cool!
We went to one of the air shows this Summer, and I snapped these photos with my regular, old point and shoot camera:
I printed the pictures and hung them together in inexpensive black frames from Wal-Mart. It probably cost me less than $15 total!
Here’s some tips on how to turn your photos into frame-worthy pieces of art:
– Use interesting angles
– Look for words or numbers
– Enlarge details
– Convert into black and white
I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the progress on the boy’s room as much as I’ve enjoyed decorating it! Just a few more little projects and it will be all finished!
these are great shots- I love you hung them all staggered 🙂
I just got a new camera for Christmas and still learning how to use it. I would love to be able to really nice shots like yours. I am a new follower! I found your link on Flamingo Toes. I would love for you to link up to my weekly linky party Fluster Muster on Wednesday’s @ http://www.FlusterBuster.com.
These are beautiful! I have a friend who is obsessed with airplanes so I will be sure to share with him. Found you via Think Pink Sundays at Flamingo Toes. Hope you can stop by my blog sometime!
Julia from
itsalwaysruetten.blogspot.com
Those are great prints! My dad has quite a few vintage airplane photos that I hope to frame for my Little Pilot’s big boy room in the future. I am a new follower and am off to check out the rest of the room!
Very cute artwork! I would love for you to come link up to my Get Social Sunday party and follow along. What a great idea for others to see!
http://alivedinhome.blogspot.com/2013/01/get-social-sunday_12.html
These really turned out strikingly beautiful. I’m not particularly interested in plane but I love how you unified the prints and got creative with composition. Terrific!
You always have such wonderful projects! I love reading your blog. I wanted to invite you to come link up at a party on my blog. It is a link party for OLD projects–so that we can hopefully get more traffic to our blogs using projects we’ve already posted. Come over and remind us of some of your favorite projects!
The link-up is live now.
http://www.dosmallthingswithlove.com/2013/01/hello-and-welcome-to-first-oldie-but.html
Hope to see you there!
Nancy
These are beautiful! I love them 😉
Hi I found you on the Blog hop. Now following you. Please stop by and say hi when you get a minute. have a great week. 🙂 Please check out my new Weekly Goals Blog hop. You can find it here. http://lenettacarnes.blogspot.com/2013/01/weekly-goals-linkup.html#more Would love it if you would link up with me.
Lenetta
So great! I just ordered a huge print of a vintage plane for $189 and it would have been MUCH smarter to do it this wal lol!!
Really cute! Just goes to show you that you don’t need fancy equipment/processing to make some great art!
looks great! i have a photo collage like this, in black and white, of vacation photos. isn’t it great to know it wasn’t something bought in stores?