Picture Ledge IKEA Hack For Displaying Your Art!
I am a huge fan of picture ledges when it comes to home decor, and we have them in three places in our home! They are of course great for displaying pictures, but also for displaying beautiful plates and platters, and in this case, in a nook in the kitchen, they are fabulous as an ever-changing gallery for all of my various projects! This year the shelves bear all kinds of fun paintings, and painted boxes and even some large 8-pointed stars made from wall paper scraps. I have to say, this corner of creativity makes me very happy, and is something that I look at all day long, and especially while standing at the kitchen sink doing that never ending pile of dishes! It feels a bit like a merchandised gift shop in my kitchen, as I have created with a specific color palette in mind, meaning all the pieces look good together. Yippee, now I finally realize how to make this picture ledge IKEA hack look great year round, create within a color palette for any given season or holiday. That does seem somewhat obvious, and not necessarily the way to approach a creative practice, meaning with color limitations, but hey, when artists create collections of paintings for a gallery show, those paintings are created as a group of sorts and must look good together to create an impression for the greater body of work. So there you have it, create with a specific palette in mind, and you don’t have to make any excuses for it!
A few years back when I was in the middle of a painting stint, I realized that by simply wrapping a wire around a shelf I could hang paintings with clothes pins, which is so much fun, and a great way to look at work in progress, you know, while you’re puttering in the kitchen! Speaking of puttering in the kitchen, keep on reading to see a full view of these shelves in all their winter decor glory!
These large 8 pointed stars using wall paper scraps from a friend, were made using my tutorial here. You can learn more about my llama painting here.
Check out my post regarding the painted recycled gift boxes here, the painted apple here, and the llama painting here. Ah yes, and the graffiti ski cap here!
Hope you’ve enjoyed this little kitchen gallery tour, now go make one for yourself! (Of course you’ll need a little bit of patience, as you can see from the links to all the projects these were made over a period of a few months, not weeks or days, got it?)
