Craftgrrl

huge fabric wallhanging? murals?

what if you sketched out patterns that you could paint on your wall on paper to show your mother your ideas before you actually went and did it? sometimes people are afraid to support an idea that they can't fully conceptualise, you know?

i hope you get your room lookin, groovy! bwhaha!

What kind of retro?

You could use designs on card board. Or cut out shapes and paint them different colors. Really depends on what era you are aiming for.

Also throw pillows and such in an appropriate fabric will do.

Post what era and that will help for things.

We kind of over lap then. My house is full of art deco.

Now, if you want a movie like theme, you could use lots of silver and gold. Buy or make little things to paint.

If you want to go more 50s kitsch, then you could use turquoise and white or silver.

I saw a cool idea for a mirror today on BBC. They took a piece of heavy corrugated cardboard from an appliance box, cut it for a frame and used a thin piece of mirror glue gunned on the back. You could make a cool round mirror with a round hole in it and then paint it.

You could also cut some geometric shapes out of similar stuff and paint them in the colors you want. Then mount them slightly away from the wall to give some dimension.

Hope that gets your brain working some!!

If you mean the thing with the mirror, what you do is get a heavy sturdy piece of cardboard box. They used a piece from a stove box. The shipping box thing.

Then cut it in whatever shape you want, to be a frame. Then cut a shape out of the middle, and on the back side glue a piece of thin mirror to it with a glue gun. You can decorate the frame anyway you want, spray paint it, put some shapes on it with paint etc. You could even glue shapes on it.

You could do the same thing for photos or print you out some cool pictures from the internet.

Paint or collage on a large peice of poster board. That way when you ever move you can take you wall art with you or change it if you don't want any more! :)

you can collage your wall using wall mod podge and put up pin up girls or pictures of famous bombshells-whatever you want, it looks really cool and would give your room it's own oringinality

mod podge is this glue subtance you can decoupage with, and they make a special powder version that you mix for when you do things on your wall, they have mod podge for everything, outdoor, fabric, waterproof and then the plain old gloddy and matte versions

i found this great thing in budget living magazine( current issue)
of taking old hard cover books.. and doing this sort of oragami design with the pages, then they hung them on the walls like framed art work. Much of the issue was related to varying time frames of retro. well worht the time and money to look for a copy. The "making it" craft section is usually very interesting.

yes.. however
they do not put much of the content online at all.

www.budgetlivingmedia.com

you could collect a bunch of retro scarves (from whatever era you're going for) then pin them up all over the wall--kinda like a crazy-fabric wallpaper collage. i did that when i went to college (we had that terrible cinder-block type walls) & it look soo fun! everyone loved it & i never ran out of things to look at :) then when you get sick of it, you either change 'em up, or just take 'em down!

i'm not allowed to paint in my flat, but i wanted blue walls, so i bought some paint and wood-framed canvases from the art supply store and painted them in different shades of blue and put those up.

here is a picture of it..

sheila

I came across this while looking for ideas, so the post probably won't do you much good! But may I suggest going to your local thrift store and looking through the old record section? You can find some great album art to hang up for very cheaply.