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Progress has been slow in the studio this week, but I feel like things are starting to get going! My main goal this weekend is to finish the resin petri wall. I showed everyone my plan for this wall next to my desk earlier this week (you can read the details here ), but my original plan was to use 5″ x 5″ gallery-wrapped canvases. Well, to have enough for my art installation (calling it an “art installation” seems too important to me 😀 ), the canvases cost around $190.
I don’t think it’s a terrible price for something that makes such a big, colorful impact in a room, but I’m not entirely sold on how the canvases look. They looked a bit thick for my taste, so I looked for something else that would work. I’d rather not DIY the 45 frames if I could.
And I think these look amazing! I’m going to paint them white before mounting the resin discs on them.
You can see how good this thickness is. It’s half the thickness of the rolled canvases, but with the added thickness of disc resin, I think it’s perfect.
Here’s a side-by-side look at the two. I also love the cleaner look of wood to the less-than-perfect look of canvas-wrapped corners.
So now that I have everything I need for that project, my main goal this weekend is to finish that wall, which includes applying the trim (baseboards) and painting.
But, another very exciting package for a big, blank wall is coming today and I’m super excited about it! So hopefully I can make some progress on that wall as well.
If you remember, I printed out our landscape design plan a while back so I could frame it and hang it in the studio.
After I printed it, I decided to reprint it to include the plant key next to it. So the new design looks like this…
But before I could reprint it, a very kind and generous reader contacted me and said she could print it for me in her work, and that she had the ability to print it really big! Of course, it intrigued me, but I couldn’t think of where to put such a large print.
So it took some time, and some back and forth email exchanges, but I finally came up with a plan. She printed it to be 52″W x 78″H and it arrives today! I am unbelievably excited about it. I can’t wait to see it, and then I have to figure out how to mount it, frame it, and hang it on the wall. But now here’s the whole plan for the big, blank wall.
Because of the outlet placement and large calendar size, the landscape design is on the left side of the wall. This is the right place for it. Then the calendar goes to the right. That still leaves plenty of room for the TV (you convinced me to put the TV in the plan for the wall), and then I’ll add some very simple shelves under the TV. I had three different ideas for the shelves. They weren’t really display shelves like the ones in the breakfast room where I displayed colorful artwork. They are more utilitarian, but the end result is very colorful. But I’ll wait to share those details once it’s done. I’m excited to see how much I can get done this weekend!
Addicted 2 Decorating shares my DIY and decorating journey as I renovate and decorate the 1948 Fixer Upper that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has MS and is unable to do physical activity, so I do most of the housework myself. You can learn more about me here.
