Good art is the one thing that I wi

Good art is the one thing that I will continue to hoard no matter how much stuff I accumulate. I simply can’t get enough art is the ultimate room changer. So today we are talking about how to shop, frame and hang a gallery wall and breaking the whole process down with Etsy and Framebridge. Click on through to see the whole post.


Shopping for and purchasing art used to be degrading, difficult and just generally humiliating with only a couple of options – either generic mass-produced pieces from Big Box stores by nameless ‘artists’ (some of which are still selling these and should just stop), or from art galleries … which are generally wildly more expensive, not to mention just not convenient, so just not terribly accessible. The internet changed everything and made being an artist a real profitable career and democratized it for us non-artist art lovers. Nice job, Al Gore and nice job major retailers that have partnered with real artists :)

There are a few power players in the selling of art online, and one of them is our famous friend, Etsy. Most of you know that anybody can sell anything that they make (or vintage) on Etsy without being filtered which means that no one is dictating what they think is ‘good’ and nothing is marked up. Some are cheap, some are expensive, but all of them are available with pricing controlled by the artist. It’s really been a game changer and I can’t tell you how much art we have bought on Etsy over the years.

The only caveat is that the art is often unframed, and framing can be just so tricky, stressful, overwhelming and expensive. Like lampshades with lamps and good pots with plants, custom framing can often be even more expensive than the art itself. I typically use ready-made frames for standard sizes because they are wildly less expensive, and just easier, but when things aren’t standard sizes and you care about them, then you typically have to go to a frame store and choose between 10,000 different frames with different pricing, and 200 different mattes and then you get your quote and you cry because it came out to $800 for that 8×15 drawing that you bought for $8 from the flea market. Through experience I know how to spot the cheaper frames and I’m already braced for the price, but it’s typically not an enjoyable experience for most people.

But now there are services, like Framebridge, that are taking some of the stress and cost away from framing your favorite pieces and making the whole process so much more convenient.

So here’s what we did: we picked out 16 or so pieces of art from Etsy and then had them custom framed by Framebridge and put them in a couple different gallery walls and now we are going to break down the whole process.

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Good art is the one thing that I will continue to hoard no matter how much stuff I accumulate. I simply can’t get enough art is the ultimate room changer. So today we are talking about how to shop, frame and hang a gallery wall and breaking the whole process down with Etsy and Framebridge. Click on through to see the whole post.Shopping for and purchasing art used to be degrading, difficult and just generally humiliating with only a couple of options – either generic mass-produced pieces from Big Box stores by nameless ‘artists’ (some of which are still selling these and should just stop), or from art galleries … which are generally wildly more expensive, not to mention just not convenient, so just not terribly accessible. The internet changed everything and made being an artist a real profitable career and democratized it for us non-artist art lovers. Nice job, Al Gore and nice job major retailers that have partnered with real artists :)There are a few power players in the selling of art online, and one of them is our famous friend, Etsy. Most of you know that anybody can sell anything that they make (or vintage) on Etsy without being filtered which means that no one is dictating what they think is ‘good’ and nothing is marked up. Some are cheap, some are expensive, but all of them are available with pricing controlled by the artist. It’s really been a game changer and I can’t tell you how much art we have bought on Etsy over the years.The caveat chỉ là nghệ thuật là thường unframed, và khung có thể chỉ là như vậy khó khăn, căng thẳng, áp đảo và tốn kém. Giống như chụp đèn với đèn và chậu tốt với các nhà máy, tùy chỉnh khung thường có thể ngay cả đắt hơn nghệ thuật chính nó. Tôi thường sử dụng khung làm sẵn cho kích thước tiêu chuẩn bởi vì họ là cực kỳ ít tốn kém, và chỉ cần dễ dàng hơn, nhưng khi những điều không kích thước tiêu chuẩn và bạn chăm sóc về họ, sau đó bạn thường phải đi đến một cửa hàng khung và lựa chọn giữa 10.000 khung khác nhau với giá cả khác nhau, và 200 mattes khác nhau và sau đó bạn nhận được báo giá của bạn và bạn khóc vì nó đến ra ngoài để $800 cho 8 × 15 vẽ mà bạn mua cho $8 từ flea market. Thông qua kinh nghiệm, tôi biết làm thế nào để phát hiện các khung rẻ hơn và tôi đã braced cho giá cả, nhưng nó thường không phải là một trải nghiệm thú vị cho hầu hết mọi người.Nhưng bây giờ có là dịch vụ, như Framebridge, đang diễn một số căng thẳng và các chi phí ra khỏi khung mảnh yêu thích của bạn và làm cho toàn bộ quá trình nhiều hơn nữa thuận tiện.Vì vậy đây là những gì chúng tôi đã làm: chúng tôi đã chọn ra 16 hoặc như vậy miếng của nghệ thuật từ Etsy và sau đó có họ tùy chỉnh khung bằng Framebridge và đặt chúng trong một vài bộ sưu tập khác nhau bức tường và bây giờ chúng ta sẽ phá vỡ toàn bộ quá trình.