Artwork and decorating tips!

[Mak]

I am after some ideas to decorate our place on a budget! DH has painted and the place looks lovely and fresh but very white and bare.
I would love some recommendations for places to hunt down some works that do not cost the earth! Blogs, galleries, websites and markets would all be great.
I have done cheap and cheerful scrapbooking paper in frames for the girls rooms - owls in one babushkas in the other but am stuck as to what to do in the living areas.
PS I am clearly distracting myself from cleaning out the messes that need to be sorted!

[Daydream Believer]

Check out discount stores or art shops for canvas's cheap & find some fabric you really like & staple or glue it to the canvas (on the back) & hang them up. You could do a series of them that are all slightly different

[Loula]

I love printspace and have a few pieces for my nursery, i just got some ikea frames and a new mat made at the local framing shop.

[Mak]

Great tips thanks! xx

[Summertime]

Hi Mak,

We are in the middle of reno's and I love getting into the arty stuff (on the cheap!)

I absolutely love these two blogs - Young House Love and Bower Power. Sooo many great ideas and heaps of DIY stuff.

[Mak]

Thanks Summertime! I will go have a look. I love The Design Files but it is definitely in a different league, interestingly tho there seem to be many Ikea pieces hidden amongst the fab designer gear. Also like Auntie Cookie and Ink and Spindle for some lovely textiles. xx