How to make some old tired decorative pictures look SUPER AWESOME

So, if you ever wanted to know how to make a garage sell find into an expensive boutique item...here's how for just about $1.50.

These are the pictures I picked up for a few bucks today.

 

So, its okay right? Just not fabulous and the frame is all scratched up.

 

 

 

All you will need is a paintbrush and two .88 cent bottles of craft paint that you can pick up at any Walmart. I chose a cream color and burnt umber brown. (This picture was taken with  my Cannon Rebel T3I by the way. Great camera if your looking for one)

 

 

To protect the glass, I just tore a few pages out of a magazine I had laying around that I wont ever read again. Since it was just collecting dust, I repurposed it for this.

 

This was after the one coat of the beige paint. I only did one coat because I wanted it to look antiqued.

 

Here is a closer view of it. Don't worry if you get a few paint things here and there on the glass because it wipes right off with a damp cloth.

 

 

Here are the pictures after I added the brown paint to it. I used ALOT of water and barely any brown paint. It made more of a brown wash than anything else.

 

After I did that, before it dried, I wiped off the surfaces but not the cracks. Then I pushed down hard on the paint brush to scratch off some of the paint here and there.

 

Here is a close up of the edges. I like this look.

 

So, there you go. Good luck. Post pictures of yours when you get done. I would LOVE to see it.

 

Happy painting.