Happy Monday! I thought I'd switch things up a bit and start a new series called "Make It Mondays" where I show you my DIY projects.
This week, I'm showing you a super easy project that you can do with Ikea picture frames and some brass corners (and little teeny nails). I got the idea when I read through a DIY frame idea by Courtney at A Thoughtful Place. She used painters tape to create her corners and they turned out fabulous!
Here is her finished product (link to her blog post can be found here):
After seeing this, I thought about it more and wondered if they sold brass corners. Through some digging around via Google, I found some really cute brass corners! When they came in the mail though, they had no nails to go with them. I had to scour the internet once again and after visiting a few hardware stores that didn't sell that small of a nail, I found them online.
The frames I used were RIBBA but I just checked the IKEA website and they don't carry the size I have which I believe is an 11x14 and they also don't carry the color black...
First, I glued the corners to the picture frames to keep them steady when I was going to add the nails in. I used a rock hammer to nail in the nails because a full sized hammer was way too big.
The nails were really delicate so if I hit it too hard, they bent.
Pulling these little nails out was super tricky too. The frames are made of compacted wood and were somewhat tough to nail through but I did it!
This is what a finished corner looks like!
Then I added pictures that I had printed at Target and voila!
Here was what I spent:
RIBBA picture frames from IKEA: $12.99 x 4 = $51.96
Brass Corners (16): I can't remember where I bought these now?! But I do remember they were fairly pricey for 16 corners. $30.
2mm nails: $8
TOTAL: $89.96
