DIY baguette

Decorating a house with paintings, especially of your work, is incredibly stylish, especially if you correctly design the plot and choose the appropriate baguette. But often products become dusty due to the high cost of their design. Do not wait, because making a baguette with your own hands is not difficult. How exactly does such a process look like that is useful to you for realizing your artistic idea, and other equally important useful tips regarding the manufacture of frames for landscapes, still lifes and other variations of the artistic canvas we have prepared for you in this article.

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We select material

The first step is to find out in which workshops you can buy a baguette with a footage, go there and find the right option.

Before starting work on the design, you should choose a baguette, and accordingly, understand what it happens. Most often, in stores, a finished baguette can be found in three versions.

Polyurethane foam

This is a very lightweight and cheap material that is easy to modify. In addition, it tolerates moisture well, is quite flexible, and will last a long time. An additional plus - you can give it any shade.

Plastic

Plastic products can imitate wood, have high moisture protection and are much cheaper than wood. But such material only looks good from afar.

Plastic is noticeable, and definitely makes the product in such a frame cheaper. Also, many attribute the unnaturalness of the material to the minuses.

Wooden baguette

Wood frame is an ageless classic. Let's try to figure out what it can be done with your own hands:

1. Skirting board is an inexpensive and convenient option for designing simple compositions. Of course, the skirting board is not suitable for chic products or for the style of an expensive interior, but for small sketches and cartoons it is quite convenient. Moreover, its use in such an unusual form transforms the product, and it is very difficult to recognize it even without additional decor.
2. Also, for the design of the picture, you can use the platbands 50-70 mm wide.
3. Of course, you can use a ready-made baguette made of wood - this is a more expensive option, but also more beautiful.

Important! Of course, wood frames look much more chic than the previous options. They quite steadily endure various kinds of mechanical damage, are environmentally friendly, but their cost in comparison with plastic and foam products is much higher. Also, such products are afraid of water.

Metal frames

The modern design of the premises implies the presence of unusual materials in it. Therefore, metal frames are also popular today. Most often, such a framework is used for presentations, exhibitions or office design, but even at home such a product can look quite organic if the design of the room and the picture do not contradict the style of the frame.

Important! For your first frame, it’s best to choose an inexpensive polystyrene foam, because even if you spoil the first product, it will not hit your budget hard.

After selecting the material, you can proceed to the design.

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We make a picture

Before you start making a baguette with your own hands, you need to prepare all the tools. We will need the following:

• hacksaw to cut parts;
• miter box - to control the cutting of an exact angle of 45 degrees;
• a pencil, ruler or tape measure for marking;
• sandpaper for stripping joints;
• glue for product corners;
• brushes and paint if the frame is painted;
• thick cardboard, plywood - for the design of the back wall;
• glass to fit the frame.

Important! Depending on the material from which the baguette is made with your own hands, you need to select the appropriate glue and paint. So, for wood products a good option would be to use wood glue and acrylic paints.

The size

How the picture will be perceived depends on the size of the baguette. Small paintings are usually placed in wide frames, large - depending on the room in which the interior will be located.

Important! To correctly determine the required footage, you can use the following formula: measure the side, add 6 cm to all the bevels and another centimeter to the grooves. Accordingly, 22 cm of baguette will take a length of 15 cm.

Next, you can begin to create a framework.

Steps

In order not to miss anything in the question of how to make a baguette for a picture with your own hands, we describe the step-by-step process of creation:

1. We remove the dimensions from the product to determine what size we need the frame.
2. We decide if we need glass. The relevance of glass is due to how fragile the product is and how long it needs to be stored without damage. Remember that when using glass, the grooves in the frame should be deeper.
3. If you have blanks, you can start cutting them according to the dimensions that we removed in the first paragraph. For these purposes, a cutting tool - a miter box is perfect. It makes smooth joints, thanks to cutting parts at an angle of exactly 45 degrees.
4. If there is no title on the frame, first cut them out.
5. When the elements are ready, you can connect them together using glue and fixing the corners with a clamp.

Important! Do-it-yourself frame for a picture is simple, but a beginner will have to try to ensure that all the details are perfectly even and fit together.

And if there are gaps between the joints - you need to remove them. Next, we will examine how this can be done.

We remove the gaps

To remove the gap:

1. It is necessary to make small wood shavings (for this purpose you can use wooden skewer) and mix the shavings with glue to get a paste consistency.
2. The paste must be gently rubbed into the slot and allowed to dry.
3. If necessary, add more.
4. After the whole procedure, dried sawdust with glue should be tinted with acrylic in the color of the entire frame.

Next, you can proceed to the installation of the picture in the frame.

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Set the picture

If the picture is painted on a flat hard surface (cardboard, Whatman paper), then there will be no particular difficulties how to make a picture in a baguette with your own hands. But with a soft surface of the product, such as embroidery on the canvas, you must first pull the work.

How to draw a picture?

To get started, we need a ruler, thick cardboard, scissors and double-sided tape:

1. We measure the size of the product, leaving half a centimeter to the part that goes into a baguette.
2. We cut the cardboard of the required area and gently bend the fabric, controlling the tension.
3. On the side of the web, glue the adhesive tape, and open the second part of the adhesive layer at the very last moment, when all the tension has already been checked.
4. After the work done, the product is left to "rest" for 1-2 days to check how tight it is stretched.

Important! When deformations appear, the edges are pulled.

To make the product look beautiful and not deteriorate over time, it is hidden under glass. Consider how to do this.

Final stage

To cut glass yourself, you will need a measuring tool, glass cutter and gloves. The required dimensions are very simple to determine: measure the frame with internal grooves, and you will get a clear outline of the future glass.

To put the whole picture together, it is necessary to put the product on the cut glass, fix it with small cloves, and close the back part with thick cardboard or plywood, and install the fasteners.

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Choosing the right one: tips

Do not forget that the choice of baguette is very important, because not only how the product will look in it, but also the general interior of the room will depend on it.

Design

A baguette with your own hands must necessarily be combined with the design of the room where you plan to place the picture. Pay attention to the color, structure of the material, as well as its decorative elements.

You must admit that a soft pink frame with stucco molding will look ridiculous in a modern high-tech style interior, and a simple one-color frame will be alien in luxurious rooms with mahogany and gold elements.

Please note that the frame connects the interior and the picture.

Important! Some products need additional decor - a passport, with which the product looks much more interesting.

Color

The color of your frame determines how advantageous the product will look in it.

There is one rule that most baguette companies use:

1. The frame should be half a light or darker than the main color of the picture.
2. Or be the same shade with the color that is present on the product in small quantities.

Important! Consider the color temperature of the product. To warm tones, you need to choose warm shades of the frame, and vice versa.

Design

Profiles come in a variety of designs to consider when choosing along with color, material and design.

Classic baguette

The frame, made of a classic baguette, visually makes the image deeper, similar to the view through the window. This is due to the fact that the baguette is thicker on top, and its narrowest part is adjacent to the picture.

Reverse baguette

This option is, on the contrary, narrow to the outer edge and wide to the image. Thanks to this design, the image in the frame seems to be pushed forward.

Important! Decorators often use this technique when decorating mirrors in a baguette..

Flat baguette

This is a profile that has practically no differences in thickness, respectively - it does not distract attention from the image at all. In such a baguette collages, posters, bright and contrasting images look good.

Restoration

If you already have a frame, but over time it has lost its appearance, you can restore it:

• to clean the details;
• putty all cracks;
• repaint the surface.

The dried frame is decorated as desired: varnish, impregnation, paints and other elements.

Important! Paint should be selected based on safety and hiding power. Pay attention to acrylic paints - they do not emit fumes and are well suited for any room.

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Stock footage

It is not difficult to choose a frame for a picture if you know the basic rules for combining color and decor in the interior. It’s a little harder to make a baguette with your own hands. A master class, decorator tips and our article will certainly help you in its creation. If you work carefully and follow all the recommendations, then with a square or rectangular frame you are sure to handle it. Creative success!