Good Read: Handmade Frames - Decorative Accents For Your Home

This is one good read. Some DIY Frames you can try & do. Bought this on sale for P200 at booksale kiosk.

From the book…

Country Living - Handmade Frames

An arrangement of beautifully framed pictures adds warmth and personality to a room. Framed images can bring character to a forgotten corner, provide a focal point in a plain room, or simply accent the furnishings. Just about anything can be framed effectively - family photographs and memorabilia, evocative postcards, treasured letters, antique lace, pressed flowers. The skill is in pairing the subject with the right frame and mat. Handmade frames explains how to select art of framing, how to to choose a mat and frame, and how to arrange framed artwork decoratively.

Handmade frames explains the principles of framing and provides step-by-step instructions for personalizing store-bought frames using a number of easy techniques, such as decoupage and burnishings, and for making unique frames out of paper and found objects.

Introduction

Putting a frame around a picture or an object lends it a certain presence. We are all familiar with the way that ornate frames in museums and galleries add to the power of a work of art. Once singled out and paired with the right frame and mat, even the humblest subject a pressed flower, an old ticket stub, a leaf, can take on a new beauty, while the most sentimental - an old family letter, a time-worn woolen childs mitten - is preserved and kept on display.

Just as the right frame can transform a subject, so a beautifully framed picture can transform a room. A single well framed image, or a grouping of several, is one of the easiest and quickest ways to improve the look and feel of any space, creating interest or character where perhaps there was none, highlighting an architectural feature, or even making a room feel larger or smaller.

Making the match between image, mat, and frame - indeed, selecting the image in the first place is one of the creative joys of framing. In the best examples, of course, there is a harmony not only between the subject and the way in which it is framed but also where and how the picture is hung. Today, there is not a single predominant style of framing our choice of frames is as diverse as the subjects we select. This book is about finding your style or styles and discovering the pleasure in using frames decoratively throughout the house.