How to make a frame for a picture with your own hands from the baseboard

The desire to decorate the interior with your own hands, a passion for painting and needlework often lead to the fact that the hostess accumulates a small warehouse of custom-sized images, which will be much more expensive to issue in a baguette workshop than it cost itself Job. In such a situation, a frame for a picture from the ceiling plinth comes to the aid, fragments and trimmings of which can remain after repair.

The seemingly complicated process of making a do-it-yourself skirting frame requires no special knowledge, but only patience and accuracy, which means that anyone interested can create such beauty master.

Selection of skirting board according to the material of manufacture

According to the material of manufacture, ceiling moldings are divided into several types, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages, not all of them are convenient in operation. Let's consider some of them:

• Styrofoam skirting board. The most budget option, simple and easy to handle, has a minimum weight and a wide variety forms and reliefs, imitation of various natural materials, such as wood, granite and etc. Ideal for the first experience in working on frames. A serious drawback of such fillets is their fragility, they break too easily, crumple and crumble.
• The second most popular material is polystyrene foam. Visually, it differs little from the previous one, but much stiffer and stronger, which allows it to be bent at the desired angles. Such a skirting board will cost more, but, after acquiring some skill, will allow you to create an oval and round frame.

• Tree. Wooden frames for photos look especially impressive and chic, paintings or mirrors. But such skirting boards are more expensive and difficult to process, as they require a special tool and some experience with similar surfaces.

Tools and materials

In order to start manufacturing frames, you will have to prepare a simple set of tools and materials:

• the molding itself or its fragments (consider the example of foam or polystyrene ceiling skirting boards);
• thick cardboard (if the framed product does not have a rigid base, such as embroidery or tapestry);
• universal glue or "liquid nails";
• sharp knife (construction or clerical);
• miter box (you can take a protractor) for even cutting corners;
• ruler and marker;
• acrylic paints and putty (better for wood).

Note! When choosing an adhesive, make sure that it is suitable for the selected material, as some of its types are able to corrode polystyrene / polystyrene.

Frame Instruction

After studying the theoretical part, having prepared everything necessary, you can proceed to the instructions explaining how to make a frame for a picture with your own hands from a ceiling plinth:

• The basis for the frame is cut out of hard cardboard - a rectangle slightly larger or equal in size to the framed photograph or picture.
• If you wish, you can cut another rectangle with the same parameters, make a “window” in it, decorate and use it as a mat. It will help to hide small design errors, if necessary, center the image, which will allow the product to fully reveal and give a sense of completeness.

• If you plan to use the frame for a mirror, a picture on cardboard, or a canvas with a stretcher, the point on how to make the base is not relevant.
• Using a ruler and marker, plinth sections of the required size are marked and, using a miter box or protractor, are carefully cut with a sharp knife at an angle of 45 °.

Note! If relief fillets are used, you should try to select the pattern at the junctions as much as possible.

• The coincidence of the cut fragments is checked, for this the workpiece is laid out on a hard surface, if necessary, the joints are adjusted and adjusted.
• The resulting planks are glued together or glued to a cardboard base (it is convenient to use a glue gun in such work). The ends of the strips are lubricated with glue and fixed for a few seconds.

That's all, after the glue dries, the technical part is completed, an exclusive photo frame, paintings, embroidery, etc. ready.

Homemade frame decoration

Most likely, visible cracks form at the joints of the parts. This defect is corrected using putty and subsequent painting.

• After the glue has dried, it is necessary to putty the joints (if the resulting gaps are too large, you can insert small pieces of the baseboard into them), as well as the back of the frame, which will give the product an additional strength.
• When the putty is completely dry, you can start painting. If non-acrylic or water-based paints are used, it is better to pre-coat the surface of the frames made with several layers of PVA glue.

• To give the product a finishing gloss, you can coat it with water-based varnish.
• If necessary, a wall mount is made on the back of the picture frame. To do this, a small cardboard rectangle is glued to the back surface, under which a rope loop is laid.

Note! If you make a wooden frame, it can be supplemented with glass fixed with small carnations. In products of foam or polypropylene there is no such possibility.

After the baguette is completely ready and dried out, if desired, you can decorate it with any additional jewelry: beads, rhinestones, feathers, lace, etc.

The video shows a master class demonstrating the manufacture of a frame from a ceiling plinth with your own hands.