How To... DIY Fabric Art

Over the weekend one of my friends/client {whom I workout with every day} was bouncing ideas for a piece of focal point art over her new sectional off of me.  She has great taste, and has many great ideas, but that is just her problem.  There are TOO many ideas and she has a hard time narrowing them down.  So here is where I come in... I am her sounding board and say yes or no and why.  

She wanted to use what she had, and move some thing around to make it fresh.  That is my favorite type of decorating... shopping your own house!  Here is what we came up with..

She had a large framed canvas that was sort of outdate for her house.  We had ideas of painting it out one color or painting some sort of design on it, but we ultimately decided to cover it in fabric.

A totally fine piece of art, but just not in this house!

First remove the hardware, paper backing, and staples that are holding the canvas in.

 Wrap fabric around canvas and staple.  Start from the middle and work your way to the corners.  Staple all four sides, but not the corners.

My favorite way to fold the corners is super simple:

1. pull the fabric to a point away from the canvas

2. pull fabric down tight at the corner, staple

3. fold one side over, staple

4. fold other side over, staple.

5. admire perfect corner

Attach the fabric canvas and frame together with staples.

Reattach hanging hardware, we switched the direction it was hanging.

To complete the look we added a few open back frames she had picked up a few months ago, but yet to have a purpose for them.  The horseshoe is her great grandfathers, and really works perfect in the frame.  We are on the hunt for something circular for the brown frame.  The fabric really has interest and has so many colors to pull from for the rest of the room.  Totally in love with it... and so is my friend!