We bought an oil painting while we were in Croatia, our big souvenir of the trip. We stopped in a little gallery on Vis and found this painting and after getting everyone's opinion and discussing it - we went back the next day and bought it for the apartment. I took it in to be framed right after we got back in September and we got the call to come and get it this week.
Yes, it cost about as much to frame as it was to buy the painting - but that was sort of our expectation. This is a really large piece, so it needed a pretty substantial frame, and we didn't want to cheap out.
The frame shop was nice enough to attach a bar across the back too, so that we could hang it on a french cleat - which again, with a piece this big, really matters. It's heavy and needs a solid wall mount. I tried to take a few pics of the process, we got it up really easily and have been admiring it ever since. Things are starting to look good around here!
Before pic. I took down some sailing prints I had here. They weren't really big enough for the space - but made a good place holder.
This is the painting. It's meant to look like a city from the air at night - or whatever you want it to be.
Backside. They framed it so that we could hang it from the top bar.
This is the detached piece of wood that came with the painting that we attach to our wall. This is how the french cleat works. Attach your piece of wood to the wall, with the angled edge at the top and toward the wall.
Make sure it's level!
Really level!
Hang painting over the attached wood. It also has an angled cleat that just sits right into the top groove of your wood piece. No additional nails or screws. Just hangs there in the same spot, super secure, and wont fall on your friends heads! See from a distance, looks like a cityscape, right? Sort of? Anything?
We really love it. And now that it's up, it's motivated me to get on with the other stuff. Next stop, pillows to match the drapes from the other day.
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