DIY Painted Picture Frames

Today I'm linking up with Sarah over at Life Sweet Life.


And I'm also linking up with Katie over at Keep Calm and Carry on.


I've seen many Pinterest pins where people would take old frames and just spray paint them to give the frames a little make over. Like these from modmomdiy.wordpress.com:



I really liked these from smallchichome.com:



I thought I would cheat and just go to Hobby Lobby and buy these styles of frames since I'm not very crafty and would rather spend my Saturday doing something fun with Chris and Zoë. But even at half price, they were more than what I wanted to spend. So, we made a little trip to Lowes and bought some spray paint with primer in it.


These were what the picture frames looked like before. Simple, neutral brown frames.





I really can't say that I did this little project. Yes, I helped by making sure the spray paint was nice and shook up. :) But Chris did all the painting.


I was very pleased with the outcome! For $13 we have 12 "new" frames.


We haven't hung up the majority of them on the walls upstairs yet, but I can share with you some of the ones that I have scattered around the downstairs.


Maybe we'll get the others hung up so I can show how pretty the colors are against our neutral, yellow walls.